ASK US: Towards Good Environmental Practices (GEPs) for Clinical Trials and Sites

ASK US Question: Do you integrate environmental and climate considerations into your clinical trials and site practices?

Clinical trials, like many large-scale scientific and medical activities, have an environmental footprint that contribute to broader sustainability challenges. Register for our ASK US Season 6 opener on the environmental impact of clinical trials and clinical trial site practices. Discover the key issues around waste, resource consumption, life-cycle analysis, reporting, participant considerations, challenges, and more.

Be inspired by the new initiatives at the local, national and international levels and consider the calls for action that affect all of us in our practices. Join us to learn how the path to environmentally responsible clinical trials can start at your sites.

Learning objectives:

After this session, you will be able to:

• Know the main initiatives associated with clinical trial designs and protocol changes to incorporate responsible environmental conduct in clinical trials and site practice
• Recognize common environmental terms
• Identify examples of actual and potential issues related to environmental impact of and on clinical trials and the participants involved
• Name three challenges related to inclusion of environment practices at a site

Host:

Jean Smart, Regulatory Affairs & Quality Officer, Clinical Trials BC
Michael Smith Health Research BC

Speakers:

Dr. Shannon Bard, PhD
Environmental Scientist & Climate Solutions Innovator,
Intertidal Solutions Inc

Celia Belamour
Clinical Research Nurse Coordinator,
Northern Centre for Clinical Research