This course explores how clinical trials are being reimagined in the digital age, with a focus on innovation, patient-centric design, and equity. Students will examine the scientific, ethical, and systems-based challenges that have shaped traditional trials and consider how emerging technologies, real-world data, and decentralized models are reshaping the landscape. Alongside pivotal literature, they will learn directly from leaders across academia, industry, advocacy, and tech who are driving change in trial design and execution.Students will develop the skills to critically evaluate new frameworks, balance regulatory and clinical rigor with inclusivity, and design trials that better reflect the patients they aim to serve.
1 units · Medical Satisfactory/No Credit
This course explores how clinical trials are being reimagined in the digital age, with a focus on innovation, patient-centric design, and equity. Students will examine the scientific, ethical, and systems-based challenges that have shaped traditional trials and consider how emerging technologies, real-world data, and decentralized models are reshaping the landscape. Alongside pivotal literature, they will learn directly from leaders across academia, industry, advocacy, and tech who are driving change in trial design and execution.Students will develop the skills to critically evaluate new frameworks, balance regulatory and clinical rigor with inclusivity, and design trials that better reflect the patients they aim to serve.
Offered in Winter 2027 at Stanford University.