Leveraging WHO’s Global Benchmarking Tool to strengthen capacity in clinical trials oversight for public health emergencies: the GHPP VaccTrain model

Table 1 Number of emergency related clinical trials on Influenza A H1N1, Ebola and SARS CoV-2 conducted in VaccTrain’s partner countries under study

		Number of emergency-related clinical trials conducted in respective countries, n (Interventional; Observational)
Public Health Emergency	Period	NRA 1	NRA 2	NRA 3
The Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic	2009–2010	0 (0;0) ^c	0 (0;0)	0 (0;0)^a
The Ebola epidermic in West Africa	2013–2016	9 (7;2)	14 (11;3)	0 (0;0)^b
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic	2019 – ongoing	1 (0;1)	1 (0; 1)	3 (1;2)

Source: www.clinicaltrials.gov; www.pactr.samrc.ac.za
^a Agency not established yet; ^b Agency established a year before epidemic declared ended; ^cAgency established in last year of pandemic

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