The State of Clinical Research in South Africa September 6, 2010
Posted by Phakamile in : Uncategorized , trackbackA 13-member consensus panel of experts, chaired by Prof Bongani Mayosi (UCT), have compiled a 11 chapter report on the Revitalization of Clinical Research in South Africa (SA). This report provides a review of the overall state of clinical research in SA.
The report looks at: why clinical research is important, it’s history in SA, the national culture supporting it, the public’s engagement, the ethical issues, the funding issues, the published outputs, the workforce and the institutional arrangements. It also looks at what kind of interventions have been successfully used elsewhere in the world to address the kind of challenges SA clinical research is facing.
Based on the report’s findings it is clear that clinical research in SA needs to be revitalized.
The panel then proposed recommendations/solutions and also identified which stakeholders/government departments need to attend to these. The overall recommendations state that there’s a need for:
- National Strategic Planning, Regulation and Co-ordination of Clinical Research
- Human Infrastructural Capacity
- The creation of Clinical Research Centres and Research Institutes as national hubs in the academic health complexes and other sites
- National Funding Schemes for Clinical and Health Research
- Monitoring and Evaluation of the Clinical and Health Research Enterprise
The report has been positively received and stakeholders are currently being engaged in order to ensure that the recommendations are implemented. The concise version of the report is available on ASSAf’s website.
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