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Grand Rounds August 19, 2022: Inclusion and Diversity in Clinical Trials: Actionable Steps to Drive Lasting Change (Gerald Bloomfield, MD, MPH; Michelle Kelsey, MD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

For the theme of improving the accessibility of clinical trials, the Think Tank identified steps such as decentralizing clinical trials to reduce geographic barriers, using digital tools, and leveraging community infrastructure already in place to improve accessibility to clinical trials. Learn more. pctGR, @Collaboratory1.

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WHO update on Omicron

The Pharma Data

1.1.529 a variant of concern, named Omicron, on the advice of WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE). The number of people testing positive has risen in areas of South Africa affected by this variant, but epidemiologic studies are underway to understand if it is because of Omicron or other factors.

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Predicting pandemics with unconventional digital tools

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But the advent of COVID-19 is proving to be something of a coming of age for digital epidemiology, which has been putting data from disparate sources to global use for the last 15 years. Digital epidemiologists, he explained, think about how alternative, freely available data streams can “unwind the hierarchical information flow”.