The Problem: The innovation side of healthcare often operates outside of standard delivery workflows and processes. Despite its crucial role in the future health of all populations, many consumers are unaware of clinical research as a care option, and those who are often face barriers in accessing clinical trials.

What’s our Solution? Rather than investigator sites operating in separate silos, the MCA’s CTn program leverages a comprehensive community wide multi-stakeholder approach to help our region’s ecosystem work together to increase trial awareness, engagement, and enrollment. Achieving this will not only improve trial access and diverse representation in clinical trials but will also enhance the overall competitiveness of our region’s clinical trial ecosystem.

Strategies

Investigator Sites

Enlist the participation of investigator sites and innovators in the network.

CTn Ambassadors

Enlist participation from multiple stakeholders (healthcare providers, community health workers, and community representatives) to be part of the network and serve as CTn Ambassadors. CTn Ambassadors are encouraged to make reasonable best efforts to integrate trial activity into their everyday care coordination and referral management workflows. Our distinctive approach equips our CTn Ambassador network with the training, resources, and tools needed to foster on-going bi-directional communication with the community about trials and data driven strategies that support community-wide trial awareness, engagement, and participation.

Centralized Trial & Site Data

Facilitate network access to up-to-date and user-friendly regional trial and site data by encouraging local sites to list their active trials with High Enroll -a mobile IT platform, MCA’s partner for this program. Centralized trial and site data can also be found via clinicaltrials.gov or by visiting the websites of our local investigator sites as listed in our region’s clinical trial site directory.

Training

Train CTn Ambassadors about clinical trials, the impact of trials on health and health equity, how to communicate with the public about trials, how to search for active trials, and refer qualified candidates to sites for more information should there be an interest.

MCA Outreach & Support

Provide site outreach via the help of MCA CTn Ambassador(s) to increase trial awareness, engagement, and enrollment on behalf of the Rio Grande Corridor communities. CTn Ambassador’s will also encourage the public to leverage High Enroll’s public facing mobile IT APP – Patient Enroll

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