The NIH Collaboratory is using its popular ePCT Grand Rounds platform for a special webinar series on diversity in pragmatic clinical trials.
In this Friday’s session—“Meeting Participants Where They Are – Outreach, Trust, and Consent to Maximize Diversity”—Dr. Wendy Weber of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health will host a panel of investigators for a discussion about strategies for maximizing participant diversity in pragmatic clinical trials by improving outreach and building trust.
The panel will include:
- Dr. Jonathan Jackson, executive director of the Community Access, Recruitment, and Engagement (CARE) Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- Dr. Judith Schlaeger of the University of Illinois at Chicago, co–principal investigator of GRACE, an NIH Collaboratory Demonstration Project
- Dr. Stacy Sterling of the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Northern California, co–principal investigator of GGC4H, an NIH Collaboratory Demonstration Project
The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, June 25, at 1:00 pm eastern. Join the online meeting.
Other upcoming sessions in the diversity workshop series include:
- July 16, 2021, 1:00 pm ET: Maximizing Diversity in PCTs: What Can We Learn From Implementation Trials? (Amanda Midboe, PhD; Anne Trontell, MD, MPS; Moderator: David Chambers, DPhil)
- July 30, 2021, 1:00 pm ET: Diversity in the PCT Ecosystem: How Do We Develop a Pipeline of Diverse Investigators and Leaders in PCTs? (Marie Bernard, MD; George Mensah, MD; Natalia Morone, MD, MS; Moderator: Lesley Curtis, PhD)
- Podcast available August 9, 2021: Summary Expert Panel Discussion (David Chambers, DPhil; Lesley Curtis, PhD; Emily O’Brien, PhD; Wendy Weber, ND, PhD, MP; Kanecia Zimmerman, MD; Moderator: Robin Boineau, MD, MA)
All sessions are free and open to the public; no registration is required. Recordings will be archived on the Grand Rounds website.
