Innovations in Clinical Development – South Asia Forum 2021
Innovations in Clinical Development – South Asia Forum 2021
The highly successful Inaugural South Asia Forum for Innovations in Clinical Development hosted by RemediumOne and University of Kelaniya, in Colombo, Sri Lanka in December 2019 was attended by leading researchers, regulators, academics and senior personnel representing multilateral organizations from USA, UK, Europe, South East Asia, South Asia and Australia.
South Asia Forum, an invitation-only event brings together eminent global clinical researchers, regulators, and business leaders from both public and private sectors, to explore innovative collaboration models and partnerships for building new frameworks to increase their contribution to society and science. Hosted under the Chatham House Rule, the organisers hope to encourage candid discussions amongst key stakeholders.
South Asia Forum for 2021, co-hosted by DUKE-NUS, Singapore, RemediumOne and Kelaniya University, promises to build on this success. Presented through a webinar this year’s forum will focus on innovation in affordable and scalable delivery of community based public health interventions to improve blood pressure control centered around a recently concluded pivotal study conducted in South Asia.
South Asia Forum for Hypertension Control and Cardio-Metabolic Risk Reduction
It is a series of webinars hosted jointly by Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore and the lead institution in each
partnering country in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, these forums are a part of planned activities to disseminate findings of the COBRA-BPS (Control of Blood Pressure and Risk Attenuation – Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) trial and stimulate discussions for scale-up with key stakeholders in the region and global agencies. Discussions will also include ways to address comorbidities and safe delivery of care during COVID-19 and/or other potential pandemics.
The first in the dissemination webinars series will be organized in collaboration with the University of Kelaniya and Remediumone in Sri Lanka. The subsequent ones will be hosted in partnership with researchers and relevant government entities in Pakistan and Bangladesh. The discussions’ focus would be to include the COBRA-BPS intervention model in primary care services.