Guiding Principles
- The social mission of clinical research is to supply healthcare systems with reliable and accessible medical evidence.
- Ethical and policy recommendations concerning drug development should consider how this social mission is realized with minimal harm to subjects.
- All aspects of trial design and implementation, no matter how technical, have ethical and social dimensions
- Decision-making surrounding translation should be informed by system-level understandings of clinical development.
- Study of clinical translation should draw on diverse research traditions, including philosophy, epidemiology, psychology, and the social sciences.
- Ethical analysis should extend beyond clinical trial conduct to other activities and actors.
What we do
STREAM is primarily a research group- our main goal is furnish scientists, ethicists, policy-makers, and others with high quality evidence and analysis concerning clinical translation. Our members also serve in various advisory and consultative capacities as well. For a listing of our involvement in various advisory functions, click here.
Our funding
Our work is funded by public funding agencies, including Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Genome Canada.