In 2015, the Journal of Clinical of Epidemiology initiated the annual David Sackett Young Investigator Award in memory of the late David L. Sackett, who over many decades and in numerous ways inspired and educated generations of young investigators in the fields of clinical epidemiology and evidence-based medicine.
The award recognizes outstanding papers by young researchers that exemplify the values of creativity and scientific excellence. To be eligible for the David Sackett Young Investigator Award 2020, the young investigator had to be the first author of the nominated article and younger than 35 at the time of submission.
In 2021, from the many nominations received, the editorial team and its advisers have selected Van Thu Nguyen as the winner. Van is the first author of ‘Research response to COVID-19 needed better coordination and collaboration: a living mapping of registered trials [
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].’‘The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has changed the way research is conducted. Thousands of clinical trials have been organized to search for preventive and therapeutic interventions against COVID-19 in a relatively short time. To have an overview of research questions evaluated regarding COVID-19, and the evolution of research overtime, they performed a living mapping of randomized controlled trials (RCTs)registered in the WHO’s International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (ICTRP). They search ICTRP database once a week to identify and extract data from RCTs evaluating the effectiveness of interventions for preventing and treating COVID-19 as well as of all trials on COVID-19 vaccines. They created a publicly available interactive mapping tool at https://covid-nma.com to visualize all trials that are registered. The results highlighted redundancy in certain research questions where many RCTs were conducted in silo. The visualization of all COVID-19 RCTs helps researchers and decision makers to identify research gaps, and plan research of high priority. The living mapping also provides a tool to monitor status of research and enhance research collaborations and interactions in medical and scientific communities to avoid research waste.’
Affiliation: Université de Paris, Centre of Research Epidemiology and Statistics, Inserm, Paris, France.
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- COVID-NMA Consortium Team. Research response to coronavirus disease 2019 needed better coordination and collaboration: a living mapping of registered trials.J Clin Epidemiol. 2021; 130: 107-116
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