FHI Clinical goes where our expertise is needed. Whether it requires working from a state-of-the-art facility or in a low-tech, rural setting, we provide services tailored to meet your study needs, from protocol design and site assessments to trial planning, implementation and management.
FHI Clinical has long-standing relationships, a local team and broad expertise in sub-Saharan Africa. We're ready to help you confidently expand your research across the region, finding the best-fit countries and populations for your target indication and study type.
For more than 10 years, the FHI Clinical project team has partnered with companies developing and deploying vaccines, treatments and preventive devices for malaria in 35 countries worldwide.
For nearly 20 years, the FHI Clinical project team has partnered with companies developing and deploying vaccines, treatments and diagnostic tests for multiple oncology indications.
Investigating existing treatments for their efficacy to treat COVID-19 is important in some countries with limited access to new treatments, such as Ghana. In this project profile, Loice Magaria, Clinical Research Project Manager at FHI Clinical, discusses a study we’re supporting in Ghana to investigate COVID-19 treatments.
Our site managers partner with study sites to ensure their success throughout the length of the project. This can include training and re-training for procedures, processes, protocol, ICH GCP, data management, informed consent and more.
The study team maintained a 91% retention rate in a study of a Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) vaccine, despite study disruptions due to natural disasters, including Hurricane Maria, and political unrest near the sites in five Caribbean countries in a CHIKV endemic region.
The FHI Clinical project team supported site monitoring, site management and project management to assist the University of Notre Dame investigators achieve a level of rigor not typically required for a non-medical product in their double-blinded, randomized-cluster, placebo-controlled clinical trial of a spatial repellent against mosquitoes for malaria prevention.
Since 1976, Ebola virus disease outbreaks have primarily occurred in eleven countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Uganda. Although it is generally rare, it is often fatal, with death rates ranging from 25 to 90% in past outbreaks (average case fatality rate, 50%). No treatment or vaccine is currently approved, but there are several promising vaccines and treatments under development.
Data monitoring strategies implemented by our bilingual CRA helped eliminate the backlog to ensure timely database lock in a phase 2 trial for Sanaria's innovative PfSPZ Vaccine for malaria in Equatorial Guinea, an area with limited prior research experience.
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