Prof. Shaun Treweek & Dr Hanne Bruhn - Trial Forge Guidance 5: Ethical issues in SWATs

UCC & HRB-TMRN event: Deliberating Ethics in Trials: Scope and necessity of ethical oversight
May 2nd, 2024
Shaun is a health services researcher interested in efficient trial design, particularly around inclusive recruitment and retention and the effective presentation of research evidence. He led the development of the NIHR INCLUDE Ethnicity Framework, a tool to help trialists design inclusive trials and PRECIS-2, a tool to match trial design decisions to what the users of the results need. He leads an initiative called Trial Forge (www.trialforge.org) that aims to be more systematic about how we identify, generate and use research evidence in making trial design, conduct, analysis and reporting decisions. In 2019 Trial Forge won the international Cochrane-REWARD Prize for outstanding work in reducing waste in research. Finally, Shaun is an Editor-in-Chief of the journal Trials.
Dr Hanne Bruhn (personal pronouns: she/her/hers). I’m an HRB-TMRN Research Associate and split my time between University College Cork and University of Aberdeen where I work on all things trial methodology with Dr Frances Shiely and Professor Shaun Treweek. I also contribute to Trial Forge and hope to meet many of you at the Trial Forge stand at ICTMC 2024 in Edinburgh.