Celebrating International Clinical Trials Day
20 May 2025
International Clinical Trials Day takes place every year on the 20th May to celebrate the anniversary of the first modern day clinical trial by James Lind in 1747.
On Sunday 18th May, colleagues from across Sheffield's NHS, including from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield Children’s and Primary Care Sheffield came together to engage with the public about the positive impact of research in Sheffield via a series of interactive family-friendly activities at Weston Park's May Fayre.
The atmosphere was as warm as the weather as families and individuals came together to learn more about health and care research across Sheffield, and opportunities on how they can get involved in research across the city and beyond.
Interactive activities included:
- A mock clinical trial using tap and bottled water to help people understand what is involved in research trials
- Hands-on activity for people to test their skills at techniques often used in laboratories in a research setting.
Research colleagues also shared the various the ways that people can get involved in and participate in research, and invited the public to ask their questions to researchers that our research experts will answer on a special podcast due to be released in July.
Email sth.getinvolved@nhs.net for more information about getting involved in health and care research in Sheffield.
To tune into special podcast in July bookmark this page now: https://player.sheffield.ac.uk/.../health-research-sheffield
