The Challenge & Work Ahead
Clinical research success requires interdependent leadership and repeatable collaboration practices between organizations. However, the nature of work within clinical research has evolved, becoming more complex and creating operational gaps that disproportionately impact site teams. These factors create undue burden, increased costs, and lost productivity. Therefore, the Society for Clinical Research Sites (SCRS) Global Impact Partner (GIP) Community will explore best practices and resources to highlight the competitive advantage that great collaboration has on study success.
SCRS Collaborate Forward InterVIEWS
Clarity First: A Better Way to Study Start-up: How CNS Healthcare Uses Structure to Ensure Success
Study start-up is one of the most demanding phases of clinical research. For sites managing large and diverse portfolios, success depends on getting the right information early and keeping communication clear as complexity increases.
Trust Through Execution: How Science 37 Expanded Patient Access Through Collaboration
For patients participating in rare disease and pediatric studies, clinical trial participation often extends far beyond the clinic visit itself. Travel, caregiving responsibilities, scheduling challenges, and years-long commitments can create significant burdens for patients
Relationships + Experience = Trust: DM Clinical
From Principles to Practice:Â Bringing the Playbook to Life The Collaborate Forward Playbook from SCRS outlines four pillars of successful collaboration: leadership support, operational impact, information governance, and feedback loops. Continue Reading Article
Listening First, Following Through: How Scout Responds to Site Realities and Feedback
For sites, the reality of clinical research is defined by operations—how logistics, payments, travel, and participant support actually work in practice. When this layer works well, studies move forward with fewer disruptions. When it
Collaborate Forward explores the clinical research process to understand best practices, define knowledge principles, and resource opportunities to showcase and demonstrate great clinical collaboration.
Program Objectives
- Elevate the organizational and project advantages of collaboration.
- Develop, showcase and resource guiding principles of clinical collaboration (Study Culture, People, Systems, Process).
- Research and explore interdependent collaboration within clinical research, highlighting site experiences in several phases of study startup (planning/feasibility, contracts & budgets and participant recruitment).
- Produce a Collaborate Forward Playbook, showcasing the lessons learned through interview and case study.
 Collaborate Forward Working Group Includes:
Any SCRS Global Impact Partner is eligible to join. Email: Brian Egan or Sean Soth
Collaborate Forward Initiative is proudly supported by Fortrea
