E156 Micro-Paper Series

Africa Clinical Trials
Under the Microscope

190 evidence papers on clinical trial equity in Africa. Four thematic groups, twenty papers each. Your assignment: rewrite, verify, and submit.

What is this?

Each group below contains AI-drafted E156 micro-papers about clinical trial inequity in Africa. Each paper is exactly 7 sentences and 156 words, backed by ClinicalTrials.gov data, with an interactive HTML dashboard and Python analysis code.

Your task: Read each paper, study the dashboard, understand the code, then rewrite the paper in your own voice before submitting to the Synthesis Medicine Journal.

Each student group is assigned one of the four themes below — confirm your group number with your course lead, then click that card to view your 20 papers.

Group 1

Geographic Equity & Spatial Justice

Where do clinical trials happen in Africa? These 20 papers analyse the spatial distribution of research sites, urban-rural gaps, cross-border access barriers, and geographic concentration patterns using ClinicalTrials.gov data.

40 papers
Group 2

Health & Disease Burden

What diseases get studied in Africa, and which are ignored? These 20 papers examine heart failure, maternal mortality, COVID displacement, genomic gaps, and the mismatch between disease burden and research investment.

60 papers
Group 3

Governance, Justice & Sovereignty

Who controls clinical research in Africa? These 20 papers examine authorship gaps, corporate capture, data sovereignty, knowledge extraction, placebo ethics, and the structural power dynamics that shape African research.

45 papers
Group 4

Methods, Design & Research Systems

What trial methods does Africa receive? These 20 papers audit protocol quality, recruitment speed, Benford's law adherence, network entropy, and whether Africa gets cutting-edge or second-class methodology.

45 papers

Data & Analysis

Live analysis of ClinicalTrials.gov data across all 54 African nations.