Inclusive Clinical Trial Strategy
Project Overview
Articulate hospital strategy for inclusive clinical trail process
Personal Contribution
Worked with small team to define strategic roadmap to scale co-designed clinical trials
Interviewed and identified insights from healthcare professionals, community members, and doctors
Conducted effective secondary research in order to establish best practices for innovative healthcare research
Articulated and iterated a refined strategy to advance co-designed clinical trials for RUSH University Hospital and the Institute for Translational Medicine
Fostered consensus for inclusive medical practices for healthcare system through hands-on workshops and engagement practices
The Challenge
Communities of color often experience health disparities, and their underrepresentation in clinical trials can perpetuate these disparities. Including these communities allows for research on diseases and conditions that disproportionately affect them. RUSH Hospital is aware of this cyclical pattern and desired a new solution that might bring equity to healthcare.
By engaging communities of color in clinical trials, trust is built in healthcare systems and research institutions. This trust is essential for increasing participation in healthcare and research. Co-designed clinical trials ultimately pave the way for more effective, personalized, and ethical healthcare practices, benefiting everyone and reducing healthcare disparities.
With a small team, I set out to determine the strategic roadmap for the hospital staff.
Research & Discovery
The following methods were employed:
Stakeholder Interviews
Extensive desktop research was conducted
Interactive workshop with hospital staff
Opportunities Areas
The RUSH Hospital team was very interested in co-designed clinical trials, but needed to further understand how adaptation would work across the network, fully integrate medical standards of clinical trials, and partner with communities.
Stakeholder Workshop
In order to advance co-designed clinical trials, a workshop was hosted in order to bring decision-makers together and establish aligned goals.
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Results
A strategic roadmap was produced for RUSH Hospital to begin utilizing co-designed clinical trials.
Activation cycles of various stakeholder relationships and communication flows from pre-trial, during trial, to post-trial interactions
Community relationship design to prioritize communities with highest barriers to trust healthcare systems
Inclusive clinical trials allow healing narrative to heal various relationships
Treatment (medicine + care) : Patient
Hospital : Community
Society : Healthcare
“This project will move medicine forward for patients who are most likely to be missed in our system. It is revolutionary.”