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> EDICT Staff and Collaborators Present Poster at NCI – ASCO Cancer Trial Accrual Symposium
> EDICT and Disparities in Clinical Trials are Focus of National Minority Quality Forum Town Hall Meeting
> EDICT PI, Dr. Armin Weinberg, is Principal Investigator of New Texas Life Science Foundation Grant to Support Collaboration Among Texas Clinical Trials Researchers
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EDICT Releases Report from Eight Regional DialogueMeetings
EDICT, in collaboration with the Intercultural Cancer Council (ICC), has completed the first eight of its Regional Dialogue Meetings. The meetings were held in a city selected from each of the eight regions ofthe ICC network in the U.S. and its associated territories including: New York City (Harlem), Cincinnati, Honolulu, Tampa, Tucson/ Phoenix, San Francisco, San Juan/ Cayey, Puerto Rico and Charleston, West Virginia. The overall objectives of the meetings were to: 1) bring the mission of EDICT and its specific policy recommendations to local community stakeholders, and 2) obtain feedback from communities related to their questions and concerns about disparities in clinical trials. The meetings successfully brought together community members with the research and advocacy communities.

View the report from these meetings.

EDICT Project Policy Recommendations Summary
The EDICT Project booklet provides a background of the issues related to the underrepresentation of many populations in clinical trials and a summary of the EDICT Policy Recommendations to address this problem.
View the booklet PDF file . . .
http://www.bcm.edu/edict/PDF/EDICT_Project_Booklet.pdf

EDICT Model Checklist for Editors and Staff of Journals Publishing Data Related to Clinical Trials
The EDICT Publications Working Group convened in December of 2008 with the objective of assessing the role that publications could play in eliminating disparities in clinical trials. Believing that biomedical and trade journals could have powerful downstream signaling effects on research teams, investigators, and sponsors, the Working Group ultimately produced a model checklist {download model checklist PDF file} that is intended for use by editors and staff of journals that publish data related to clinical trials. The checklist, which also contains a brief explanation and rationale, can be adopted as is or used as a template for signaling to key stakeholders that disparities in clinical trials pose scientific and ethical problems that may be relevant to publication. Also available for download are a complete project narrative describing the genesis and activities of the Working Group and a timeline/workflow document that captures further specifics of the Working Group’s activities and methods.

For more information, please contact the Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Research Center at 713-798-4614 or edict@bcm.edu.