About ACTA Australian Clinical Trials Alliance is the national peak body supporting and representing networks of clinician-researchers conducting investigator-initiated clinical trials, maintaining clinical quality registries, and operating clinical trial coordinating…
Our Mission To promote effective and cost‐effective healthcare in Australia through investigator‐initiated clinical trials and clinical quality registries that generate evidence to support decisions made by health practitioners, policy‐makers, and…
ACTA’s development is supported by over 60 individual clinical trials networks, clinical trial coordinating centres and clinical quality registries in Australia. These groups cover a broad range of disease groups…
ACTA will seek to develop strong partnerships and models of engagement with Stakeholders that share ACTA’s mission to promote effective and cost‐effective health care in Australia through public-good clinical trials. These groups will include: Commonwealth…
A better basis for making decisions in health care It is often assumed that the vast majority of clinical decision-making is supported by high quality evidence derived from clinical trials….
A national summit of investigator-initiated clinical trials networks. 28-29 March, 2014 Melbourne More than 165 senior representatives from 95 organisations involved in clinical trials attended ACTA’s inaugural national summit. Presentations, panel discussions…
The ACTA2015 Symposium was held between the 7th – 10th October 2015 at the Hilton Hotel, Sydney. The Symposium brought together the largest ever multi-disciplinary, cross-specialty faculty of invited international…
International Clinical Trials Day is held on 20 May each year to commemorate the day that James Lind began his trials into the causes of scurvy. Lind’s experiments in 1747 were…
More than 160 of Australia’s leading clinical trialists, research professionals, health policymakers and consumer representatives participated in the ACTA Summit last month. Webcast presentations from the National Summit on Investigator-Initiated Clinical Trials…
The Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA) was officially launched by Professor Chris Brook PSM on 28 March 2014 at the National Summit of Clinical Trials Networks in Melbourne. Professor Brook, Executive Director…
The recent change to chapter 2.3 of the Australian National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (2007) allows Human Research Ethics Committees (HRECs) to approve the use of ‘opt-out’…
On behalf of its members, ACTA will have a role in: promoting the advantages and benefits of investigator-initiated clinical trials and clinical quality registries; raising awareness of the need for,…
Benefits of Membership Have an active role in helping to ensure that the public good trials and registries sector has a strong and effective ‘collective voice’ at the national level. Help…
In June 2017, with a $5 million Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) grant to the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA), the Australian Government demonstrated its clear commitment to supporting health…
PURPOSE AND SCOPE The Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA) recognises the importance of your privacy. This Privacy Policy establishes how ACTA protects personal information and explains: what personal information ACTA…
Pages About ACTA Vision & Mission The ACTA Community Stakeholders Why ACTA formed Aims & Objectives Membership Information Funding and Support Major Initiatives What is a Clinical Trials Network? Current…
Pictures from the ACTA Summit 2014, 28-29 March, Melbourne Professor Rinaldo Bellomo at the ACTA Summit, 2014 …
Over 165 leading clinical researchers, senior health policymakers and consumer representatives took part in the ACTA Summit 2014. These individuals formally represented 95 different organisations that conduct or support the conduct of public-good clinical trials within…
Summit Program ACTA Summit 2014 – A national summit of investigator-initiated clinical trials networks: PROGRAM (PDF, 160KB) Friday Program Presentations Video recordings of the Friday Program presentations at the Summit…
Economic evaluation of investigator-initiated clinical trials conducted by networks In July 2017, ACTA and the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care published a landmark report detailing a…
Report on the 2014 National Summit of Investigator-Initiated Clinical Trials Networks March 28-29, Melbourne Download the ACTA Summit Report Download a print-friendly version of the ACTA Summit Report…
The first workshop in the business meeting reviewed the current state of ACTA, and where it should head. Participants received a background document on ACTA’s Progress and Plans before the summit….
The Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative (PaCCSC) Australia announced the release of its first Research Report 2006-2014 at its recent Annual Research Forum. The report details the eight-year journey of…
A communique released by the Dept of Health late last week reveals that a much-needed national approach to enhancing clinical trials activity remains high on the agenda. The release following…
**Abstracts have been extended to Sunday 18 May!** The annual NHRMC Research Translation Faculty Symposia have become a highlight of the NHMRC’s education calendar. The theme for this year’s conference to be held…
In a media release published today ACTA has applauded the Federal Government initiative to establish a $20B Medical Research Future Fund announced in the Budget handed down yesterday. ACTA’s Chair, Professor John…
Media Release: 20 May, 2014 Australian researchers pause with global counterparts to acknowledge vital role of clinical trials in saving lives and advancing medicine Clinical researchers across Australia and around the…
In a major advance for the sector, the Australia Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA) is representing the investigator-led clinical trials community on the newly-formed Clinical Trials Advisory Committee (CTAC). The Committee has…
Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA) & TransCelerate – 4 July, 2014 The Victorian Department of Health Streamlining Clinical Trials Research forum series will this month feature an update on development of…
Australia has shown once again that it is punching above its weight as a global leader in clinical trials research, and that Australian patients are the beneficiaries. The World’s Most…
The Australasian Radiopharmaceutical Trials Network (www.ARTnet.org.au) was officially launched in April 2014 and is a joint initiative of the Australasian Association of Nuclear Medicine Specialists (AANMS) and the Australian and…
ACTA’s submission to the Senate Inquiry into Australia’s Innovation System was published today. The Inquiry was announced in March 2014 and set to inform a whole-of-Government approach to boosting productivity,…
ACTA’s submission to the Senate Inquiry into Australia’s Innovation System was published today. We welcomed the opportunity to highlight to the Economic Reference Committee the following key points, along with…