Integrating and Expanding the Clinical Research Networks // Site: Duke University

Duke University

Principal Investigator:		Carol Dukes Hamilton, M.D.
Contact information:		Duke University Medical Center 2400 Pratt Street, Room 0311 Durham, NC 27710
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Program Title:		TB Trials Network (TBTN) - Enhancing the U.S. Public-Health System's Willingness and Capacity to Engage in Clinical Research
Program Description:
The TB Trials Consortium (TBTC) is a network of U.S.-based academic and federal investigators who have been engaged in TB-related clinical research since 1993. The TBTC is funded by the Centers tor Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and includes 21 U.S. sites, three Canadian sites and single sites in Brazil, Uganda, South Africa and Spain. The major focus of the proposed projects will be to enhance the willingness and capacity for clinics within the U.S. public health system to engage in clinical research. Though our specific long-term goal is progress toward worldwide TB control and elimination, the process, connections, and products we develop will have broad application among clinical research networks in the U.S.