Global Clinical Trials

Section I: Overview Chapter 1 Background Chapter 2: Ethics Chapter 3: Regulatory and Legal Requirements Chapter 4: United States Regulations Chapter 5: Indian Regulations Chapter 6: Chinese Regulations Chapter 7: African Regulations Chapter 8: Middle Eastern Regulations Chapter 9: Southeast Asian Regulations Chapter 10: South American Regulations Chapter 11: WHO and prequalification

Section II: Clinical Study and Logistics Chapter 12: Design of Clinical Trials Chapter 13: Study Management Chapter 14: CRO Qualification, Selection, and Management Chapter 15: Logistics Chapter 16: Partner Management Chapter 17: Site Selection and Capacity Building Chapter 18: Study Conduct and Monitoring Chapter 19: Data Collection and Management Section III: Special Considerations in Conducting Trials in Developing Countries Chapter 20: Conducting Studies in India Chapter 21: Conducting Studies in China Chapter 22: Conducting Studies in Africa Chapter 23: Conducting Studies in Eastern Europe Chapter 24: Vaccine Trials

Section IV: Analysis of Results Chapter 25: Basic Statistics Chapter 26: Data Analysis Chapter 27: Confounding, Interactions, and Multivariate Analysis Chapter 28: Common Misinterpretations Chapter 29: Regulatory Filings

Section V: Appendices Appendix A: Sample Protocol Appendix B: Sample Consent Form Appendix C: Sample Investigator's Brochure Appendix C: Sample Case Report Form Appendix D: Sample Statistical Analysis Plan Appendix D: ICH Guideline Appendix E: Glossary

Richard Chin is the CEO of Institute for OneWorld Health, the first U.S. nonprofit pharmaceutical company and Associate Professor at UCSF School of Medicine. OneWorld Health develops affordable drugs for neglected patients in the developing world. Dr. Chin has extensive expertise in drug development, including over 45 INDs and almost a dozen drug registrations. His previous roles include CEO of a NASDAQ listed company, Senior Vice President of Global Development at Elan, and Head of Clinical Research for the Biotherapeutics Unit at Genentech. He was named by Businessweek in 2006 as one of the youngest 99 public company CEOs in the United States. Dr. Chin earned an M.D. from Harvard and the equivalent of a J.D. from Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Menghis Bairu, M.D.-physician, editor, author, philanthropist and healthcare business executive-has more than two decades of international experience in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, global health and non-profit arenas. Dr. Bairu serves as Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer and Head of Global Development at Elan. His responsibilities include, but are not limited to clinical development, biometrics, regulatory, CMC, QA, safety-and-risk management, clinical operations and medical affairs. Previously he served as head of Onclave Therapeutics, a wholly Elan-owned oncology biotech company.

He lectures extensively on global health and biopharmaceutical issues with particular focus on Emerging Markets (e.g. India, China, Latin America, Singapore, Middle East, South East Asia and Africa). He served as editor and co-author of Global Clinical Trials: Effective Implementation and Management (Elsevier, 2011), a textbook designed to help researchers develop and implement effective and ethical international clinical trials. Dr. Bairu is also editor/co-author of Global Clinical Trials Playbook: Management and Implementation (Elsevier, 2012), and Global Clinical Trials for Alzheimer's

"Global Clinical Trials: Effective Implementation and Management" is probably the most comprehensive book written to date on the topic.The book includes contributions from 59 authors, with coverage of many countries engaged in clinical research." -Review by Norman M. Goldfarb in Journal of Clinical Research Best Practices, May 2012

"...can be considered a manual on how an ethical global clinical trial should be conducted....a landmark publication; it likely will stand as a standard reference book for global clinical trials for many years to come." --Journal of the American Medical Association, May 2012

"Global Clinical Trials: Effective Implementation and Management” is probably the most comprehensive book written to date on the topic.The book includes contributions from 59 authors, with coverage of many countries engaged in clinical research." --Journal of Clinical Research Best Practices, May 2012