Jane A Otado
Howard University, USA
Biography
Jane A Otado has completed her PhD in Medical Sociology/Social Demography from Howard University and Postdoctoral studies from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She is currently the Associate Director of Regulatory, Ethics Knowledge and Support (REKS), a component of the Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHUCCTS), a CTSA research grant funded by National Institute of Health (NIH). She has held various health services research workshops, research ethics, GCP and human research protection training relative to compliance. Her area of research interests include access to and availability of health care particularly as it relates to minority health, adolescent health, prenatal care utilization, elderly African American and access to health care, minority participation in clinical trials. Her recent research involves post-consent understanding among at risk minority population and recruitment strategies for recruitment and retention of African American population into clinical trials and research participant satisfaction surveys. She serves on the Howard University biomedical IRB, on the GHUCCTS protocol review committee and a Member of the GHUCCTS Steering Committee.