PLOS Science Wednesday: Hi Reddit, I’m Sara Carazo and my recent PLOS
NTDS article discusses the challenges of implementing a clinical trial
during the Ebola emergency in Guinea – Ask Me Anything!
Abstract
Hi Reddit, I am Sara Carazo, a medical doctor working for a long time
with MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières). In 2005 I participated to the MSF
response to a Marburg epidemic in Angola and in December 2014-January
2015 I was the MSF medical referent person for the Ebola clinical trial
testing favipiravir in Gueckédou, Guinea. Since 2014 I am doing a PhD in
Epidemiology at Laval University, Québec. My current research topic is
on measles vaccination. My colleagues and I recently published in PLOS
NTDS the article: Challenges in preparing and implementing a clinical
trial at field level in an Ebola emergency: A case study in Guinea, West
Africa. It is a viewpoint where we critically review all the challenges
that we encountered to implement a clinical trial in the context of an
uncontrolled Ebola virus epidemic and a vulnerable resource-poor setting
of rural Guinea. I will be answering you questions at 1pm ET – Ask Me
Anything!