Getting Started
How do I contact the CPO team to discuss my research needs?
Email cpo@1daysooner.org or fill out the CPO contact form at https://www.1daysooner.org/cpo-investigator-services/.
Is there a cost associated with your services?
CPO services are tailored to each individual collaboration and its needs. Some costs may be subsidized by 1Day Sooner’s philanthropic donors. However, the bulk of our CPO efforts relies on funding as part of grants with our collaborators. Contact the CPO team for more information.
How long does it typically take to set up support for a new study?
It depends on the requirements of an individual trial. The CPO will immediately start working on the scope of the collaboration with the study sponsor. If brought in at the planning stage of a trial, our support can begin within two weeks.
About the CPO
What makes 1Day’s CPO different from a clinical research organization (CRO)?
1Day Sooner is the only global non-profit representing healthy volunteers in clinical trials. Our CPO team works with studies and institutions as collaborators rather than contractors, and we do not conduct any day-to-day research activities related to clinical trials. We enable patient and public involvement (PPI) with our network of healthy volunteers, organizing them as equal stakeholders rather than passive subjects throughout the life of a trial.
Our services are targeted towards public or nonprofit institutions that run small but highly impactful clinical trials. Our nonprofit model allows us to support our collaborators at a low cost.
What types of institutions do you work alongside?
We work primarily with academic, medical, and nonprofit research institutions. Institutions that work with our CPO team include Leiden University, Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Research Project, the University of Oxford, and the University Health Network.
What is your team’s background and experience in clinical trials?
The CPO team includes scientists and other professionals with a wide range of experiences in industry, government, and academia. Many of our staff members have been and continue to be clinical trial volunteers themselves in addition to their professional expertise. You can find out more about our staff here.
Services & Support
What services do you provide to researchers and study sites?
For trials we support, we are proactive members of the study team. Our scientists embed directly into study teams to provide flexible support, accelerate recruitment, and integrate healthy participant voices throughout the research process. Our staff is experienced with Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines, is familiar with industry standards, and reviews all local regulatory requirements.
By aligning with funder and regulator expectations for meaningful public and patient involvement (PPI), we help make trials more efficient and participant-centered.
How can you help directly with a study?
We provide flexible study support services, including but not limited to:
- Study workshops
- Study design
- Project management
- Community advisory boards
- Informed consent support
- Participant engagement before, during, and after studies
Do you specialize in particular disease areas?
Our expertise is in controlled human infection models and infectious diseases. We have supported a range of infectious disease trials, including malaria, hepatitis C, shigella, dysentery, COVID-19, Zika, and influenza.
What clinical trial phases do you support?
The CPO supports CHIM trials in all phases. We also collaborate with Phase 1 trials that we believe are highly impactful.
How do you connect potential participants to trials?
We recommend impactful studies to our motivated volunteers through tailored outreach strategies. In addition, we expand public and participant-facing materials and participant research in the studies we are involved in and freely share these resources.
We cultivate a community of volunteers at all times, not just when studies are enrolling. We promote all studies we believe in, not just our collaborators.
Do you provide funding assistance or help with grant applications?
Yes, we would love to. We can help secure study resources through grant applications, funder connections, and strategic planning alongside the study team. Depending on study needs and the nature of the collaboration, we are usually listed as a collaborating organization and receive some grant funds for serving in this role.
We can help meet public and patient involvement (PPI) criteria of governing and funding bodies, ensuring ethical rigor and improving funding competitiveness.
How do you approach independence and ethics?
By ensuring a multitude of funding streams through grants and donations, we do not rely on specific trials or institutions, allowing us the freedom to independently assess trials and choose our collaborators.
Our operating ethics can be found here.
Partnerships
What types of studies are suitable for your services?
We only work with interventional studies involving healthy volunteers as a major component of their study population. We are especially interested in, but not limited to, working with challenge trials. In line with our mission as a non-profit, we heavily weigh the potential societal and scientific values of studies when choosing our collaborators.
What geographic regions does the CPO serve?
The CPO partners with institutions globally, with current partners in Europe, North America, and Africa. We have staff in each of these regions.
Study Participants
How do you match healthy volunteers to studies?
Since its founding, 1Day Sooner has built a global community of tens of thousands of healthy volunteers motivated to advance medical research for the greater good, primarily through high-impact studies such as human challenge trials.
I’m interested in participating as a healthy volunteer. How do I get involved?
For more information on becoming a healthy volunteer, contact 1Day Sooner through this form. Additional information and considerations for volunteering can be found here.