Adaptive Privacy in Clinical Research with Aarthi Iyer

Episode notes

Clinical trials are rapidly evolving beyond traditional clinic settings, creating new opportunities and privacy challenges. In this episode of Privacy in Practice, hosts Kellie du Preez and Danie Strachan welcome Aarthi Iyer, Senior Director & Senior Corporate Counsel at Cogent Biosciences and Microsoft Fellow focused on AI in clinical research. What You'll Learn: How decentralized clinical trials work and what privacy considerations they create Why patient data collection through wearables and apps requires enhanced vendor management How to balance GDPR consent requirements with informed consent in clinical trials What role AI is playing in modern clinical research, from patient recruitment to synthetic control arms How to manage complex vendor relationships when dealing with digital health technologies Why clinical trial sponsors have unique advantages in privacy compliance What privacy professionals new to clinical trials should focus on first How to approach controller and processor relationships across global trial sites Why pseudonymized data in clinical trials still requires careful privacy protection And so much more!

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