Shannon Bosman
Research Clinician, SYNAPSE Research Collective, Wits Health Consortium
Dr. Shannon Bosman is an experienced clinical trials manager and healthcare research professional with extensive expertise in leading and executing complex clinical research projects. She excels at managing cross-functional teams, overseeing budgets, and ensuring regulatory compliance with GCP and international standards.
Known for her goal-oriented approach, Shannon has a proven track record of delivering high-quality clinical trials on time and within budget. She is highly skilled in stakeholder management, risk mitigation, and quality assurance, and demonstrates a strong commitment to advancing global health research and improving patient outcomes.
What are the major challenges you and your scientific communities have faced in leading African science that responds to the needs of the communities you serve?
“The funding environment is changing and that is having an immediate impact on research in Africa. But before that there were challenges around capacity, resources and where those resources were coming from and how they were expected to be utilised.
African research has not always been able to be led by African researchers answering locally relevant questions.”
What attracted you to the GLISTEN program?
“The big attraction was that it is a Global South initiative, aimed at and being led by African researchers based in Africa.
It is aimed at capacitating sites and areas that have not traditionally done clinical trial work and specifically looking at the next generation of researchers and scientists and how we can make sure that they are capacitated so that the work we are doing can continue far beyond the current collaborators and investigators.”
What is your message or challenge to peers in the scientific community?
“We are living in a difficult environment. What we knew is no longer as it was before. However, this may be an opportunity to critically look at how we were doing things, how we were collaborating, how were we sharing data and results to ensure the interventions that were developing and testing could then be impactful.
How can we work together and how can we take the resources that we have to work better together? That’s where GLISTEN can step in and make the difference.”
