I’m Chris Reid, John Curtin Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centres for Clinical Research and Education at Curtin and Monash Universities. With my colleagues, we led the development of ANZACT because we believe a clinical trials network will support investigators, nurture new researchers, and most importantly optimise the use of clinical trial and registry data to improve outcomes for people accessing cardiovascular health services.
The Medical Research Future Fund has included clinical trial networks (and clinical quality registries) as priorities in its strategic plan so the timing was right to pursue a formal cardiovascular trial network – and join the other 40+ discipline-specific networks in Australia.