Objective With over 25% of the global disease burden, only 3% of global clinical trials occur in Africa. This disproportion is driven by inadequacies in clinical research capacity, regulatory process ambiguity, deficient regional patient and disease area data, and lack of visibility of existing clinical research capabilities in Africa. To address this disproportion, this proposal seeks to establish the Clinical Trials Community Africa Network (CTCAN), a collaborative framework of key clinical research stakeholders in the African region, pharma partners, and other relevant international stakeholders, with the overarching goal of bringing more clinical trials to the region in a sustainable and coordinated manner. This collaboration will map and draw on the experience and expertise of already existing networks and initiatives. It will create a network of subnetworks that will foster coordination in clinical research, by ensuring and encouraging alignment in disease area prioritization, raising awareness and visibility of existing capacity from sites and labs across Africa, operationalising the regulatory processes across the region, and strengthen less experienced sites and labs through a clinical trial preparedness framework, while encouraging inter- and cross-continental knowledge and expertise sharing. CTCAN will use and expand the Clinical Trials Community (CTC) platform, an electronic platform consolidating data on researchers, regulations, sites, and epidemiology across the continent. The result will be an ever-present and ready-to-go pool of clinical research sites and labs with the agility to rapidly address new and emerging global health threats, epidemics, and pandemics, thereby efficiently contributing towards clinical research in pandemic preparedness. CTCAN will lay the foundation for a sustainable network of clinical trial sites and laboratories in sub-Saharan Africa by leveraging and initiating collaboration between existing sub-networks, funders, and pharma. Fields of science medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthepidemiologypandemics Keywords Capacity development epidemiology data clinical trial regulatory requirements clinical trials networks Programme(s) HORIZON.2.1 - Health Main Programme Topic(s) HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2022-CALL1-01-04 - Creating a sustainable clinical trial network for infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa Call for proposal HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2022-01 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme HORIZON-JU-CSA - HORIZON JU Coordination and Support Actions Coordinator NUVOTEQ (PTY) LTD Net EU contribution € 423 547,50 Address Eoh business park, gilloolys view bedfordview 2007 Johannesburg South Africa See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Participants (3) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all SCIENCE FOR AFRICA FOUNDATION United States Net EU contribution € 731 915,00 Address 1209 orange street wilmington 19801 Delaware See on map Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICA NV Belgium Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address Turnhoutseweg 30 2340 Beerse See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. 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