Clinical Research Education and Management Services (CREAMS) Ltd

December 2011

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About CREAMS

• Company registered in Malawi (under Companies Act 46:03, section 14) in December 2011

• Mission: To act as a major partner in shaping the research policy, technical and scientific environment that will enable the public and private health sectors in Malawi to capably participate in and effectively contribute to ongoing high quality medical research for generation of evidence in the fight against clinical and public health problems

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Operational structure

International Advisors

Office (Lilongwe)Board of Directors (3)

Local consultants:• Public Health• Statistician• Epidemiologist• Health economics• Social sciences

SERVICES

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Services

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Public Private Sector

Coordination

Study design

Conduct of research

Research capacity needs assessment

and implementation

Research training• Research methodology• Grant writing• Research Ethics• Publication of results• Higher education degrees

Research database development CREAMS

Procurement and distribution of

research equipment and consumables

Intended outcomes• Changing how research is done:– Accessible and affordable research training– Involvement of private sector in research– Better Private-Public sector coordination– Improved personal and institutional research

capacity– More international collaborative research

opportunities– Accessible data base of research conducted in

Malawi for meta-analysis and policy formulationCREAMS

Recent activities• Interactive website that point users to various

online research training opportunities• Malawi bibliographic database:– First of its kind in Malawi– 2500 abstracts of health research ever conduct in

Malawi by 6000 authors – Free access abstracts but not full articles

• Joint research applications with local partners– WHO TDR (September 2012)– Canadian Grand Challenges (September 2012)

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Thanks• Partners:

– MoH (Dr Damson Kathyola)– Commission of Science and Technology (Dr Mathilda Chithila)– Malawi College of Health Science (Mr Dennis Simango)– Kamuzu College of Nursing (Dr Alfred Maluwa)

• Individuals:– Dr Thomas Nyirenda– Dr Peter Nyasulu– Dr Edwin Libamba– Dr George Ganiza– Mr Matthews Ngwale– Dr Bagrey Ngwira

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