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Clinical Trials Improve Population Health

Clinical trials impact your community. They help enhance health outcomes by developing treatments and therapies that contribute to increased understanding of diseases and how to treat them, fight them or even eradicate them.

Be a Clinical Trials Champion

Clinical research champions are united in their passion
for getting more people involved in research studies.

Who are the Champions?

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  • Patients

  • Caregivers

  • Friends

  • Family Members

  • Physicians and other healthcare professionals

  • People who have taken part in clinical research studies

  • People who have never taken part in studies

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What do Champions do?

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  • Serve as guest speaker at local events

  • Volunteer for meetings, church sessions, training programs

  • Raise awareness through media interviews, university lectures, writing blog posts or magazine articles

  • Support program planning, strategy, and design efforts of the clinical trial recruitment team

Clinical Trials Toolkit

 

This is your space for materials to help you communicate about clinical trials and their impact in your community.

If you are a community or business leader, an advocacy group, a non-profit organization, or a clinical trials champion, you are welcome to use the resources in this tool kit to help develop awareness about clinical trials and clinical trial participation.

Clinical Trial History/Misconceptions


Clinical studies have led to major changes in how clinical trials are conducted in order to protect the rights, safety, and welfare of patients in clinical trials. The mistakes of the past have led to the increased protection of participants and their welfare.

1937 Sulfonamide

Sulfonamide (sulfa drugs) were the first systemic antibiotics. The drug was widely available as the patent had expired. As a result, manufacturers produced immense amounts of sulfa with no testing requirements. Adults and children died from sulfa medicine in 1937.

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