A Global, Neutral Platform for Sharing Trial Data

Abstract

“How do we get from published papers to solutions for children?” N. L’ntshotsholé (“Shasha”) Jumbe asked. Jumbe, a senior program officer at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was speaking at a recent interdisciplinary meeting on the future of clinical trial data sharing that had been convened by the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials (MRCT) Center of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard University and the Wellcome Trust. By focusing on the reality that clinical trials that had enrolled disadvantaged African children over many years had failed to help those children and describing the difficulties and costs involved in trying to collect . . .