Introduction to Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP): Available from The Global Health Training Centre.
This peer-reviewed Introduction to Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP) course is a free, online, open-access training course developed by The Global Health Network and the Global Health Clinical Consortium (GHCC). It is a stand-alone short course for all those wanting to gain an understanding of GCLP and its application in laboratories. It provides an introduction to GCLP, summarises the principles of GCLP and offers an overview of the implementation of GCLP within a clinical trial. It takes between 45 – 60 minutes to complete, and a certificate is issued upon successful completion of the final quiz.
This introductory course is also the first module in a series of modules that, in combination, form an in-depth, advanced Good Clinical Laboratory Practice course. This multi-module course will cover each principle of GCLP in more depth, expand on the implementation of each principle and describe in detail how this can be achieved in all laboratory settings. Be sure to keep checking back at our course list to see newly released courses.
Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP):
GCLP is a set of guidelines describing the application of those Good Laboratory Practice principles that are relevant to the analyses of samples from clinical trials while ensuring the purpose and objectives of the Good Clinical Practice principles are maintained. In so doing, the reliability, quality, consistency and integrity of data generated by clinical trial laboratories can be assured, which is crucial to the outcome of any clinical trial.
Global Health Clinical Consortium (GHCC):
The GHCC is comprised of clinical operations leaders from 14 Product Development Partners (PDPs). These organisations are conducting ~125 ongoing and planned trials to develop vaccines, microbicides/preventatives, therapeutic products and diagnostics covering more than 20 disease areas at more than 260 clinical research sites in resource-limited settings. The GHCC functions as a platform to share learnings and pool resources to leverage expertise across PDPs.
This course was developed in collaboration with The Global Health Network, using existing training already in use at PDP organisations. A mini-Working Group comprised of technical experts and non-technical reviewers from several of the PDPs developed this eLearning course. This course has also been reviewed by three technical peer reviewers.
