CLEAN Meds
Life-saving treatments and other essential medicines are out of reach for some. Canada is the only high-income country in the world that publicly funds healthcare services but not medicines.
The purpose of the CLEAN Meds randomized controlled trial is to measure the effects of distributing essential medicines for free. We hope the trial will help inform public policy decisions in Canada and around the world.
The one-year study results, details about the essential medicines list and an estimate of the financial impacts of publicly funding essential medicines have been published.
We have also discussed potential implications of a Canadian essential medicines list and compared 137 national essential medicines lists and created a database of essential medicines in partnership with the World Health Organization. Our work continues and future reports will be added.
Our Team
Investigators
Nav Persaud, Michael Bedard, Andrew Boozary, Richard Glazier, Tara Gomes, Stephen Hwang, Peter Juni, Michael Law, Muhammad Mamdani, Braden Manns, Danielle Martin, Steven Morgan, Paul Oh, Andrew Pinto, Baiju Shah, Frank Sullivan, Kevin Thorpe, Karen Tu, Andreas Laupacis
Study Pharmacist
Norman Umali
Study Team Members (past and present)
Itunu Adekoya, Haroon Ahmed, Anjli Bali, Taehoon Lee, Darshanand Maraj, Efosa Oronsaye, Yathavan Rajakulasingam, Liane Steiner, Sapna Wadhawan, Hannah Woods, Hannah Yaphe
Data Safety Monitoring Board Members
Dee Mangin (chair), William Ghali, Dean Fergusson, and Andrew Day
Administrative support of the Data Safety Monitoring Board
Patricia Habran Dietrich, Jodi Peters, Karen Green.
Community Guidance Panel Members
Diane Charter, Marleane Davidson, Margaret Golding, Sureya Ibrahim, Linda Stella, and others who did not provide consent to be named.
Clinicians
Nada Abdel-Malek, Zoe von Aesch, Mouafak Al Hadi, Kelly Anderson, Gordon Arbess, Chris Barnes, Peter Barreca, Seema Bhandarkar, Gary Bloch, Tali Bogler, Ashna D K Bowry, Donnavan Boyd, Marc Bradford, Anne Browne, Paul Das, MaryBeth Derocher, Katie Dorman, Kathleen Doukas, Esther Ernst, Allison Farber, Hannah Feiner, Amy Freedman, Kari Fulton, Chantal Gaudreau, Abbas Ghavam-Rassoul, Rajesh Girdhari, Richard Glazier, Irv Gora, Kimberley Gordon, Laurie Green, Samantha Green, Charlie Guiang, Curtis Handford, Maryna Harelnikiva, Candice Holmes, Sue Hranilovic, Karl Iglar, Gwen Jansz, Emma Jeavons, Nick Jeeves, Frances Kilbertus, Flo Kim, Tara Kiran, Holly Knowles, Bruce Kwok, Sheila Lakhoo, Margarita Lam-Antoniades, Renata Leong, Fok-Han Leung, Aisha Lofters, Jennifer McCabe, Lora McDougall, Joanne Mellan, Sharon Mintz, Matthew Naccarato, Maya Nader
Clinicians
Kevin O'Connor, James Owen, Judith Peranson, Andrew Pinto, Cristina Pop, Adam Pyle, Julia Rackal, Noor Ramji, Nasreen Ramji, Danyaal Raza, Maurianne Reade, Jane Ridley, Jean Robison, Tara Rollins, Katherine Rouleau, Caroline Ruderman, Vanna Schiralli, Lee Schofield, Mary Shamas, Susan Shepherd, Rami Shoucri, Lenka Snajdrova, Andrew Stadnyk, Ann Stewart, Bill Sullivan, Karen Swirsky, Joshua Tepper, Suzanne Turner, Barbara Vari, Priya Vasa, Karim Vellani, Tao Wang, William Watson, Thea Weisdorf, Karen Weyman, Sheila Wijayasinghe, Jean Wilson, and Patricia Windrim
Chart Audit Pharmacist
Naomi Steenhof