Research: Volunteer Participation

There are multiple ways to find research participant opportunities.  Click through the links below to find a study that may be right for you.

Search for research opportunities at Trials@Hopkins

COVID-19 Prevention Clinical Trials are recruiting to study prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection in people at risk (household contacts of infected people, healthcare workers, and others). Click the link to learn about the available studies and to contact the study teams.

COVID-19 Treatment Clinical Trials are recruiting to treat SARS-CoV-2 infection in hospitalized and non-hospitalized people. Click the link to learn about the available studies and to contact the study teams.

COVID-19 Healthcare Worker Studies  In an effort to learn more about the experiences of employees, multiple Johns Hopkins and national research protocols are inviting health care workers and other employees to participate in research and public health surveillance activities. Click the link to navigate to the Johns Hopkins ICTR Website for Healthcare Worker Studies.

Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) lists a number of studies related to HIV infection and AIDS.  Or call the CFAR hotline, M-F, 9 am-5 PM, 410-487-3511

AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) is a network of HIV clinical trials.  For local information, contact Ilene Wiggins, 410-614-2766 or email [email protected].

HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) is a worldwide collaborative clinical trials network that develops and tests the safety and efficacy of interventions designed to prevent the transmission of HIV.  For local information, contact Ilene Wiggins, 410-614-2766 or email [email protected].

International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network (IMPAACT) is a global collaboration organized for the purpose of evaluating interventions to treat and prevent HIV infection and its consequences in infants, children, adolescents, and pregnant/postpartum women through the conduct of high quality clinical trials.  For local information, contact Thuy Anderson, 443-287-8942 or email [email protected]

Studies are also listed on Trials@Hopkins

Controls/Healthy Volunteers

HIV negative participants are often recruited to act as controls for studies.  Interested persons are encouraged to contact the study coordinator to discuss volunteering as an HIV negative participant.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Viral Hepatitis has research studies for treatment of Hepatitis B or C, and has studies where no medication is involved. Most studies offer participant compensation. To learn about our available hepatitis studies, please call our team at 410-955-7538 or email [email protected].  Studies are also listed on Trials@Hopkins.  

Clinical Trials Unit at Johns Hopkins Bayview lists studies currently enrolling and the contact person.

Trials@Hopkins is a searchable online database of the clinical research taking place right now at Johns Hopkins.

MyChart patient portal may send recruitment messages to specific patients receiving medical care through Johns Hopkins

ClinicalTrials.gov is a free federal listing of clinical research trials across the United States