{"title":"Embedding a commitment to equitable global access into basic and early-phase translational research.","authors":"Barry S Coller","doi":"10.1017/cts.2024.691","DOIUrl":"10.1017/cts.2024.691","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the inequities in U.S. healthcare in ways that captured public attention and reinforced the need to view all of healthcare through an equity lens. It also exposed global inequities in access to healthcare technologies. At Rockefeller University, we participate in the entire spectrum of translational research, but our focus is in the areas of basic research and new methods to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease, extending to proof of concept preclinical and Phase 1 studies. Since we believe that all phases of translational research should have an equity lens, we have instituted an initiative to encourage thought and planning about global equitable access to discoveries made by our trainee Clinical Scholars and faculty, even at the earliest phases of basic research. Assuring global equitable access to new technologies requires addressing at least 3 different aspects of new technology: 1. Patenting and licensing, 2. Manufacturing, and 3. Dissemination and implementation in low- and middle-income countries. In this review, I focus on patenting and licensing and offer ten questions for inventors to consider in discussing licensing their technologies with technology transfer officers to maximize equitable global access to the technologies they create.</p>","PeriodicalId":15529,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical and Translational Science","volume":"9 1","pages":"e88"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12083207/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144093924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Robert M Califf, Tracy L Cutler, Hilary D Marston, Ann Meeker-O'Connell
{"title":"The importance of ClinicalTrials.gov in informing trial design, conduct, and results.","authors":"Robert M Califf, Tracy L Cutler, Hilary D Marston, Ann Meeker-O'Connell","doi":"10.1017/cts.2025.9","DOIUrl":"10.1017/cts.2025.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15529,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical and Translational Science","volume":"9 1","pages":"e42"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11975776/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143811615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thank you to our reviewers.","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/cts.2025.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2025.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15529,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical and Translational Science","volume":"9 1","pages":"e41"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11975792/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143811613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J Bosak, M Drainoni, M Christopher, B Medley, S Rodriguez, S Bell, E Kim, C Stotz, G Hamilton, C Bigsby, F Gillen, J Kimball, C McClay, K Powers, G Walt, T Battaglia, D Chassler, L Sprague Martinez, K Lunze
{"title":"Erratum: Community advisory board members' perspectives on their contributions to a large multistate cluster RCT: a mixed methods study - CORRIGENDUM.","authors":"J Bosak, M Drainoni, M Christopher, B Medley, S Rodriguez, S Bell, E Kim, C Stotz, G Hamilton, C Bigsby, F Gillen, J Kimball, C McClay, K Powers, G Walt, T Battaglia, D Chassler, L Sprague Martinez, K Lunze","doi":"10.1017/cts.2025.58","DOIUrl":"10.1017/cts.2025.58","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1017/cts.2023.673.].</p>","PeriodicalId":15529,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical and Translational Science","volume":"9 1","pages":"e74"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12083194/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144093927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alana M W LeBrón, Yelba M Castellon-Lopez, Melody Gonzalez, Julia Mangione, Pamela Pimentel, Aziza Lucas-Wright, Mary Anne Foo, Audrey Kawaiopua Alo, Krystal Lloyd, Dara H Sorkin, Bernadette Boden-Albala, Keith Norris, Arleen Brown, Sora Park Tanjasiri, Mona AuYoung
{"title":"Language justice as an antiracism institutional transformation: Institutional facilitators and barriers for community-engaged cardiometabolic health promotion research.","authors":"Alana M W LeBrón, Yelba M Castellon-Lopez, Melody Gonzalez, Julia Mangione, Pamela Pimentel, Aziza Lucas-Wright, Mary Anne Foo, Audrey Kawaiopua Alo, Krystal Lloyd, Dara H Sorkin, Bernadette Boden-Albala, Keith Norris, Arleen Brown, Sora Park Tanjasiri, Mona AuYoung","doi":"10.1017/cts.2025.30","DOIUrl":"10.1017/cts.2025.30","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article describes lessons learned from the incorporation of language justice as an antiracism praxis for an academic Center addressing cardiometabolic inequities. Drawing from a thematic analysis of notes and discussions from the Center's community engagement core, we present lessons learned from three examples of language justice: inclusion of bilingual team members, community mini-grants, and centering community in community-academic meetings. Facilitating strategies included preparing and reviewing materials in advance for interpretation/translation, live simultaneous interpretation for bilingual spaces, and in-language documents. Barriers included: time commitment and expenses, slow organizational shifts to collectively practice language justice, and institutional-level administrative hurdles beyond the community engagement core's influence. Strengthening language justice means integrating language justice institutionally and into all research processes; dedicating time and processes to learn about and practice language justice; equitably funding language justice within research budgets; equitably engaging bilingual, bicultural staff and language justice practitioners; and creating processes for language justice in written and oral research and collaborative activities. Language justice is not optional and necessitates buy-in, leadership, and support of community engagement cores, Center leadership, university administrators, and funders. We discuss implications for systems and policy change to advance language justice in research to promote health equity.</p>","PeriodicalId":15529,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical and Translational Science","volume":"9 1","pages":"e73"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12083200/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144093930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicholas Eberlein, Michael D Musty, Jamie Roberts, Sierra Lindo, W Schuyler Jones, Ranee Chatterjee
{"title":"Description and toolkit for a research participant referral service.","authors":"Nicholas Eberlein, Michael D Musty, Jamie Roberts, Sierra Lindo, W Schuyler Jones, Ranee Chatterjee","doi":"10.1017/cts.2025.33","DOIUrl":"10.1017/cts.2025.33","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The success of clinical research studies depends on effective recruitment and retention of study participants, yet only a small fraction of patients engage in research studies, even in academic health systems. Increasing awareness of research opportunities and facilitating connections with clinical research study teams would help to improve the success of research programs. In this Special Communications, we describe the creation and evolution of and tools used for the My Research Partners Concierge Service (MRPcs) of an academic health system. The MRPcs provides a centralized point of contact or hub for patients and community members, as well as clinical research organizations and academic partners, who have research-related questions or interests. The MRPcs helps to connect the users of the service with relevant research study teams, personnel, or resources to facilitate their engagement in a clinical research program. Our experience with the MRPcs informs our recommendation that peer institutions organize similar research service hubs for their clinical research programs to help increase awareness of and participation in clinical research by the public and to help increase the success of research programs at fulfilling their ultimate goal of improving the health of their population.</p>","PeriodicalId":15529,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical and Translational Science","volume":"9 1","pages":"e52"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11975765/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143811543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Courtney D Hunt, Richard Sucgang, Ming Guo, Glenn Sanford, Dorothy E Lewis, Melinda Sheffield-Moore, Rebecca M Hall
{"title":"Greater gulf coast regional translational workforce development: Assessment and action plan.","authors":"Courtney D Hunt, Richard Sucgang, Ming Guo, Glenn Sanford, Dorothy E Lewis, Melinda Sheffield-Moore, Rebecca M Hall","doi":"10.1017/cts.2025.31","DOIUrl":"10.1017/cts.2025.31","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Converting knowledge from basic research into innovations that improve clinical care requires a specialized workforce that converts a laboratory invention into a product that can be developed and tested for clinical use. As the mandate to demonstrate more real-world impact from the national investment in research continues to grow, the demand for staff that specialize in product development and clinical trials continues to outpace supply. In this study, two academic medical institutions in the greater Houston-Galveston region termed this population the \"bridge and clinical research professional\" (B + CRP) workforce and assessed its turnover before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic . Both institutions realized growth (1.2 vs 2.3-fold increase) in B + CRP-specific jobs from 2017 to 2022. Turnover increased 1.5-2-fold after the onset of the pandemic but unlike turnover in the larger clinical and translational research academic workforce, the instability did not resolve by 2022. These results are a baseline measurement of the instability of our regional B + CRP workforce and have informed the development of a regional alliance of universities, academic medical centers, and economic development organizations in the greater Houston-Galveston region to increase this highly specialized and skilled candidate pool.</p>","PeriodicalId":15529,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical and Translational Science","volume":"9 1","pages":"e62"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11975780/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143811479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peter L Elkin, Christopher Lindsell, Julio Facelli, Manisha Desai, Chunhua Weng, Heidi Spratt, Shari Messinger, Lemuel Russell Waitman, JaMor Hairston, Ruth O'Hara, Jareen Meinzen-Derr
{"title":"Data science and artificial intelligence in biology, health, and healthcare.","authors":"Peter L Elkin, Christopher Lindsell, Julio Facelli, Manisha Desai, Chunhua Weng, Heidi Spratt, Shari Messinger, Lemuel Russell Waitman, JaMor Hairston, Ruth O'Hara, Jareen Meinzen-Derr","doi":"10.1017/cts.2025.28","DOIUrl":"10.1017/cts.2025.28","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15529,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical and Translational Science","volume":"9 1","pages":"e56"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11975766/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143811537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katherine J Briant, Prajakta Adsul, Elizabeth A Carosso, Marty Chakoian, Diane Mapes, Terri Coutee, Bridgette Hempstead, Laurie Hassell, Wendy Law, Jason A Mendoza
{"title":"Adoption of E2PLUS tools and resources to promote the development of institutional capacity for patient-centered and community-engaged research at a cancer center.","authors":"Katherine J Briant, Prajakta Adsul, Elizabeth A Carosso, Marty Chakoian, Diane Mapes, Terri Coutee, Bridgette Hempstead, Laurie Hassell, Wendy Law, Jason A Mendoza","doi":"10.1017/cts.2025.27","DOIUrl":"10.1017/cts.2025.27","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>The Fred Hutch/University of Washington/Seattle Children's Cancer Consortium's (Consortium) Office of Community Outreach & Engagement (OCOE) joined Stanford Medicine and Morehouse School of Medicine in implementing Engage for Equity Plus (E2PLUS), a multi-institutional community of practice to learn and share patient-centered and community-engaged research (P/CEnR) practices. University of New Mexico (UNM) facilitated this collaboration.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The Consortium formed a Champion Team of 12 people who participated in two virtual workshops facilitated by UNM. Consortium executive leadership (<i>n</i> = 4) participated in interviews, and investigators (<i>n</i> = 4) and community members/patient advocates (<i>n</i> = 8) participated in focus groups to provide institutional context regarding P/CEnR. This is a paper on the process and findings.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Through E2PLUS engagement, the Champion Team identified four strategies to address institutional health inequities: 1) increase participation of underrepresented groups at all levels of institutional leadership and advisory boards; 2) create an Office of Patient Engagement to train and support patients who participate in institutional initiatives and advise research teams; 3) expand community engagement training, resources, and institutional commitment to focus on community-identified social and health needs; and 4) establish an umbrella entity for health equity efforts across the Consortium.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>While the Consortium had longstanding community advisory boards and faculty and staff with P/CEnR expertise, it did not have centralized and institutionally supported P/CEnR resources, policies, and infrastructure. By participating in E2PLUS, the Champion Team received technical assistance to leverage qualitative data to influence strategies to guide the development of Consortium health equity infrastructure and capacity for P/CEnR in Washington.</p>","PeriodicalId":15529,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical and Translational Science","volume":"9 1","pages":"e72"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11975779/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143811357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jessica Weng, Cynthia Y Tang, Kyle T Enriquez, Rohini N Guin, Briana Christophers, Yentli E Soto Albrecht, Daniel B Amusin, Deborah D Rupert, Paige Cooper Byas
{"title":"2024 Physician-Scientist Trainee Diversity Summit conference proceedings.","authors":"Jessica Weng, Cynthia Y Tang, Kyle T Enriquez, Rohini N Guin, Briana Christophers, Yentli E Soto Albrecht, Daniel B Amusin, Deborah D Rupert, Paige Cooper Byas","doi":"10.1017/cts.2025.24","DOIUrl":"10.1017/cts.2025.24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Physician-Scientist Trainee Diversity Summit, hosted by the American Physician Scientists Association and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, was conceived in 2019 with the mission of developing strategic plans to diversify the physician-scientist community using human-centered design thinking. In June 2024, the second iteration of this conference was held in Raleigh, North Carolina, and brought together a network of scientific and medical organizations to discuss issues of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion facing physician-scientist trainees. This article summarizes the progress made from the first meeting, the proceedings of the 2024 Summit, and a thematic analysis of the recent meeting, offering tangible solutions to the physician-scientist community for supporting diversity and accessibility.</p>","PeriodicalId":15529,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Clinical and Translational Science","volume":"9 1","pages":"e49"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11975769/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143811121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}