COVID-19 has affected all aspects of our lives with significant interruptions in the areas of research, teaching, training and education. With social distancing and quarantines, a number of clinicians and scientists are asking about how to keep moving forward academically. In response to multiple requests for educational opportunities, the Africa Clinical Trials Consortium (ACTC) is proud to collaborate with the Prostate Cancer Transatlantic Consortium (CaPTC), Association of Good Clinical Practice in Nigeria (AGCPN), ecancer, and African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC) to host "Conducting Oncology Clinical Trials in Africa Webinar Series II".

Africa Clinical Trials Consortium (ACTC) presents:

Oncology Clinical Trials in Africa II - 2nd webinar series
Friday 17 April, 10 am EDT / 3 PM WAT / 4 PM SAST
Speaker: Ifeoame Okoye, MBBS

Webinar URL is by invitation only.  Email: captc@cop.ufl.edu

See poster below for webinar series calendar for April 2020.

The webinar will be recorded and made available for free on ecancer within 1 week. 

Previous webinars:

• 1. Dr Windy Dean-Colomb of the JD Moncus Cancer Center, Lafayette, USA giving an 'Introduction to Clinical Trials'.
• 2. Dr Bodour Salhia of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA giving a 'Historical Perspective on Ethical and Practical Conduct of Human Subjects Research'
• 3. Prof Ifeoma Okoye of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria discussing 'Developing strategic direction for the management of clinical trials in Africa'
• 4. Daniel Seymour from BIO Ventures for Global Health discussing 'Conducting Oncology Clinical Trials in Africa II: AC3T - Assessing, profiling, and building cancer clinical trial capacity in Africa'
• 5. Prof Folakemi Odedina of the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA gives a talk on 'Innovative recruitment methods for oncology clinical trials'
• 6. Prof Delva Shamley of the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa on 'Strategies for Building Needed Research Infrastructure for Clinical Trials'
• 7. Dr Victoria Olaiya from Synteract gives a talk on the ‘Practical steps for conducting clinical trials in Africa’
• 8. Prof Folakemi Odedina, Prof Ifeoma Okoye and Prof Delva Shamley provide an 'ACTC Informational Session'
• 9. Mr Dennis Ake discusses 'Regulatory Process for Clinical Trials in Africa'.

Meet the Expert talks:

• 1. Dr Windy Dean-Colomb of the JD Moncus Cancer Center, Lafayette, USA
• 2. Dr Bodour Salhia of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
• 3. Prof Ifeoma Okoye of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
• 4. Daniel Seymour of BIO Ventures for Global Health, Seattle, USA

Twitter Workshop

• 1. Twitter Workshop with Runcie C.W. Chidebe 

VIEW THE FIRST TALK HERE - AN INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL TRIALS