Resources

Tools, guidance and training for planning, running, appraising and reporting health research, with the official Saudi sources on research ethics, regulation, data and funding.

Resources are grouped by task and listed without ranking. Each entry says what the resource offers and links to it. Documents of the Saudi Food and Drug Authority are named without links; they are available on the authority's website.

Figures on health in Saudi Arabia are in the national health facts on the Overview page.

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Links checked: 3 November 2026

Tools For Researchers

• Planning A Study: from the research question to the protocol: question frameworks, study designs, sample size calculators, protocol templates and good clinical practice.
• Analysis & Reporting: software for statistics, data collection, references and systematic reviews, and the reporting guidelines for each study design.
• Appraising Evidence: checklists and tools for judging risk of bias and the certainty of evidence.
• Research In Saudi Arabia: ethics approval, clinical trial regulation, data protection, national data sources and research funders.

Trial Evidence & Real-World Evidence

• Trial Evidence & Real-World Evidence: frameworks and methods for real-world evidence, research comparing it with trials, and resources for judging how far trial results apply to patients in Saudi Arabia.

Researcher Pathways

• Starting Out In Research: a route through a first study, with courses on clinical research, ethics, literature searching and writing.
• Leading Research: grant applications, leading trials, research integrity, open science and patient involvement.