Good Clinical Trials
Collaborative Guidance
The Good Clinical Trials Collaborative set out to develop new guidance that would make clinical trials more ethical, efficient, and impactful.
Consultation overview around the world
Our team carried out human-centered design (HCD) consultations with RCT teams and participants across seven Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). The goal was to uncover people’s lived experiences and motivations when engaging with trials, and to translate these insights into actionable recommendations for the guidance.
A glimpse of the project strategizing and planning across phases.
Phase 1
I began with desk research to map stakeholders and understand the broader clinical trials ecosystem. This included reviewing public engagement initiatives, recent policies, and past incidents that shaped community trust in trials. Together with my team, I co-designed co-creation activities and interview protocols for 15 immersive sessions with experts and trial participants. I also took detailed notes during the sessions and contributed to synthesizing key learnings for the Round 1 report shared with GCTC.
Phase 2
We then moved into field consultations with local partners. I helped design supporting visual tools that partners used to facilitate conversations in their own contexts. My role focused on synthesizing cross-country findings, mapping behavioral patterns among different stakeholders, and developing case studies that brought these voices to life in the final report.
Few excerises from the digital toolkit we used for primary research
Illustration credit: Deepti & Saket
A glimpse of low-fidelity prototyping
Extensive stakeholder mapping and their influence on clinical trials and patients
Illustration credit: Deepti & Saket