The Challenge & Work Ahead
Clinical research success requires interdependent leadership and repeatable collaboration practices between organizations. However, the nature of work within clinical research has evolved, becoming more complex and creating operational gaps that disproportionately impact site teams. These factors create undue burden, increased costs, and lost productivity. Therefore, the Society for Clinical Research Sites (SCRS) Global Impact Partner (GIP) Community will explore best practices and resources to highlight the competitive advantage that great collaboration has on study success.
SCRS Collaborate Forward InterVIEWS
Simplify the Work. Lead the Science. How Johnson & Johnson Turned Site Feedback into Scalable Innovation
For years, clinical research has struggled with a familiar problem: information entered into the electronic health record often must be manually entered again for research purposes. The resulting duplication creates unnecessary work for sites
Listening That Leads to Results: How Roche Turned Site Feedback into Stronger Partnerships and Faster Study Start-Up
For years, sponsors have focused on becoming more “site centric.” Yet for many organizations, that still means making existing processes a little easier but oftentimes without the direct input of sites. Roche asked a
Clarity First: A Better Way to Study Start-up: How CNS Healthcare Uses Structure to Ensure Success
Study start-up is one of the most demanding phases of clinical research. For sites managing large and diverse portfolios, success depends on getting the right information early and keeping communication clear as complexity increases.
Trust Through Execution: How Science 37 Expanded Patient Access Through Collaboration
For patients participating in rare disease and pediatric studies, clinical trial participation often extends far beyond the clinic visit itself. Travel, caregiving responsibilities, scheduling challenges, and years-long commitments can create significant burdens for patients
Collaborate Forward explores the clinical research process to understand best practices, define knowledge principles, and resource opportunities to showcase and demonstrate great clinical collaboration.
Program Objectives
- Elevate the organizational and project advantages of collaboration.
- Develop, showcase and resource guiding principles of clinical collaboration (Study Culture, People, Systems, Process).
- Research and explore interdependent collaboration within clinical research, highlighting site experiences in several phases of study startup (planning/feasibility, contracts & budgets and participant recruitment).
- Produce a Collaborate Forward Playbook, showcasing the lessons learned through interview and case study.
Collaborate Forward Working Group Includes:
Any SCRS Global Impact Partner is eligible to join. Email: Brian Egan or Sean Soth
Collaborate Forward Initiative is proudly supported by Fortrea
