Academic Resources: tools: institutional review boards
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tools and tips
Do federal guidelines for IRB apply to all research at Universities? Not necessarily so. Be informed. Read about options and decisions that Universities have to make.
-- List of colleges and universities not voluntarily extending FWAs to all research, Department of Health and Human Services, January 2006 (word doc)
-- Bledsoe, Caroline H. (2006). "Hope in the IRB mire? The Federal-Wide Assurance Box 4(b) option"
-- Shweder, Richard A. (2006). "Protecting Human Subjects and Preserving Academic Freedom: Prospects at the University of Chicago"
Certificates of Confidentiality Kiosk -- NIH, Office of Extramural Research
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Bioethics Resources
Notes from The University of Arizona Human Subjects Review Quick Guide (pdf)
Stanford University's website on Administrative Panels on Human Subjects (IRBs) -- includes required tutorial and human subjects manual
publications
From the SOLGAN Newsletter:
- Gray, Mary "Methods unplugged" SOLGAN Summer 2003, Vol 22, No. 1, pp. 1,5
- Lee, Simon "Methods unplugged: Focus on IRBs continues" SOLGAN Fall 2003, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 1, 2
- Gray, Mary "Response" SOLGAN Fall 2003, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 2,3
"Giving
Voice to the Spectrum"
Results of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Ethics Special Working
Committee Consultation Organized on Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Ethics Issues Related to the TCPS (Tri-Council Policy Statement). The report
discusses, in depth, the problem of applying terms and procedures derived
from biomedical research to research in the social sciences and the humanities.
"Impact of institutional review board practice variation on observational health services research" Green LA, Lowery JC, Kowalski CP, Wyszewianski L. Health Services Research, 2006 Feb 41(1):214-30.
IRBs
and Anthropological Reseach
Patricia A. Marshall, Case Western Reserve University, Anthropology
News, April 2003
Ethical
Issues in Social and Behavioral Research (pdf) (2002)
University of Arizona Program in Research Integrity Education Newsletter
On
Being A Scientist: Responsible Conduct In Research (1995)
Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, National Academy of
Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institutes of Medicine
Institutional Review Board Guidebook -- US Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP)
cases
Case 14: The Hazardous Consent Forms -- from the Handbook on Ethical Issues in Anthropology, edited by Joan Cassell and Sue-Ellen Jacobs
Mechanisms of Approval: readings,
websites
and a case
study
from Ethical
Issues in International Health Research at the Harvard School of Public
Health
more cases from Ethical Issues in International Health Research at the Harvard School of Public Health
training
Reproductive
Health Research Ethics Training Curriculum from Family
Health International (FHI)
Human research ethics rest on three basic principles -- respect, beneficence,
and justice -- that comprise the foundation of all regulations or guidelines
governing research ethics and transcend all geographic, cultural, economic,
legal, and political boundaries. FHI developed the Research Ethics Training
Curriculum for international scientists who conduct research that includes
human participants and who want to incorporate fundamental ethical considerations
in the design and implementation of their studies.
NIH's
Computer-Based Training
The NIH has produced a training program for investigators who would
like to enhance their expertise in procedures with human subjects.
centers & organizations
Public Responsibility
in Medicine and Research
Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) is a non-membership
organization founded in 1974 to advance strong research programs within
a context of ethical practice.
The W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics -- The University of British Columbia
updated August 31, 2006