V-CTEC will see the establishment of a not-for-profit, Victoria wide, member-based education centre, with a dedicated Learning Management System (LMS) hosting a suite of evidence- based, interactive clinical trials education opportunities suitable for a range of learning needs.
A collaboration with the Australian Disease Management Association (ADMA), Bolton Clarke Research Institute, Melbourne Academic Centre for Health (MACH), Melbourne School of Population & Global Health (MSPGH), Monash Partners, and the Western Alliance has developed an extensive network of stakeholders researching or developing programs of support for social isolation.
IIT resources on the VCCC website provide the Victorian clinical trials sector with a one-stop-shop to understanding and implementing an investigator-initiated trial.
The University of Melbourne Department of General Practice undertook a national review of practice-based research networks (PBRN) to determine the research capacity of PBRNs which exist in Australia in the primary care setting.
The National Clinical Trials Governance Framework (Governance Framework) was developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care and is based on the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHS Standards), in particular, Standard 1: Clinical Governance and Standard 2: Partnering with Consumers.
Biostatistical consultation is critical in the proposal design, especially if an adaptive or complex methodology is being considered. The MACH Clinical Trials Committee identified a need for the provision of FREE biostatistical clinics
The Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Ethics Resources (CALDER) project is part of an ongoing interdisciplinary project by University of Melbourne researchers to improve research equity and inclusion of CALD patients in medical research. A key finding from earlier work was the need to raise awareness of clinical research amongst older CALD people. Brief in-language videos with captioning have been developed for broad dissemination.
MACH leads the national Transformational Data Collaboration on behalf of the Australian Health Research Alliance (AHRA) to directly address the ‘integration of large data sets across the care continuum’ priority area. Australia has fragmented data holdings across all clinical domains, extending to terminologies, data models, and the quality assurance mechanisms employed. This collaboration will uplift the use of clinical data for research across Australia and engage national partners to support a consistent strategy in advancing Health Data Science.
The WEHI buddy program is one of few programs linking consumers with laboratory researchers. Evaluation of this style of consumer engagement will strengthen the program at WEHI and guide other MACH and AHRA partners on this model.
In the hopes to developing a standardised way of enabling organisations and projects to adapt and change in the face of uncertainty and complexity Developing, the project, ‘Culturally Adaptive Governance Framework’ (CAGF), is currently being explored. In doing so, the proposed CAGF empowers and maintains fidelity to everchanging Indigenous knowledge, values, principles, and expertise.