Coronavirus Research and Clinical Trials at the Durham VA Health Care System

Veterans,

The Durham VA Health Care System is proud to announce clinical trials for the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). As one of the nation's leaders in health research, we're working to find ways to prevent and treat the coronavirus disease. We're recruiting participants for vaccine clinical trials and other COVID-19 research studies now. Anyone over the age of 18 can sign up, including Veterans, friends, and family of Veterans, and VA Staff.

If you appear eligible for a study, we’ll contact you to make sure you’re a good match. Then the study team will give you all the information you need to decide if you want to join. And you can leave a study at any time.

If you're a Veteran, your decision to join a study or not won't affect your VA health care or any of your VA benefits or services in any way.

As a research study participant, you can help us:

• Better understand how COVID-19 affects different people.
• Find ways to prevent and treat COVID-19 for you, your family, and your community.
• Make sure vaccines and treatments are safe and effective in people of all ages, genders, races, and ethnicities.

As a research participant, you may also:

• Learn more about your own health.
• Receive more regular health check-ins as part of your study visits.
• Get early access to a new vaccine or treatment.  

Volunteering Doesn’t mean you’re committing to join a research study.

If you appear eligible for a study, we’ll contact you to make sure you’re a good match.

Then the study team will give you all the information you need to decide if you want to join. And you can leave a study at any time.

If you’re a Veteran, your decision to join a study or not won’t affect your VA health care or any of your VA benefits or services in any way.