Research Ethics Board Resources

Illuminata is a Seattle-based education and information services company, providing services and resources in the areas of human subjects research, ethics, and genetics.

The IPCB is organized to assist indigenous peoples in the protection of their genetic resources, indigenous knowledge, cultural and human rights from the negative effects of biotechnology. The IPCB provides educational and technical support to indigenous peoples in the protection of their biological resources, cultural integrity, knowledge and collective rights.

Lively moderated US Listserver for IRB-related issues

The John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre is the only interdisciplinary, academic health ethics centre in Alberta and one of the first in Canada. The Centre is involved in health ethics education, research and community engagement at the University of Alberta.

The Mission of NAIM is to provide management, consultation and educational services in the area of human research management.

The mission of the NCEHR is to advance the protection and promotion of the well-being of human participants in research; and to foster high ethical standards for the conduct of research involving humans. They hold conferences and workshops, host a listserver, and do site visits.

Ontario Tech has developed the following FAQ resource related to reviewing and conducting research involving humans during a publicly declared emergency.

This document presents the views of the Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics (PRE) on principles and process for the development of a Canadian governance system for the ethical conduct of research involving humans.

In this report, we focus on human subject recruitment for two main reasons. One is that recruitment is a vital first step in the consent process, one that must not in any way be coercive or misleading to the potential subjects. The second is that recent investigations and complaints reveal disturbing recruitment practices: a study in which patients were recontacted numerous times in an effort to persuade them to enroll; a nursing home resident who was forced to participate in a study or leave the home; and a subject, later found to be ineligible, who died after participating in a trial.

The Institute of Medicine was commissioned to perform a comprehensive assessment of the national system for providing research participant protection. There are basic protection functions necessary to ensure the safety of participants and it is essential that all be met. These functions include: comprehensive review of protocols (including scientific, financial conflict of interest, and ethical reviews); ethically sound participant-investigator interactions; on-going and risk-appropriate safety monitoring; and quality improvement and compliance activities.

The Center for Ethics & Professionalism is devoted to policy development and implementation on issues related to medical ethics and professionalism, and as a resource for American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM) members and the public.

The Center for Ethics & Professionalism is devoted to policy development and implementation on issues related to medical ethics and professionalism, and as a resource for American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine (ACP-ASIM) members and the public.

The Plain Language Action & Information Network is a government-wide group of volunteers working to improve communications from the federal government to the public. This Web site contains lots of resources to help writers achieve the goal of clear communication.

The Council advises the President on bioethical issues that may emerge as a consequence of advances in biomedical science and technology.

Educational module to train researchers about the need for and components of informed consent, and to help them develop a consent form and process.

The FDA Website has a wealth of resources for health professionals about regulated products and agency policies of interest to the medical community. The site also provides for interaction with health professionals by allowing for online reporting of problems with medical products. This page provides links to many of those resources.

Food and Drug Administration's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) regulates biological products and ensures their safety for the American public.

Food and Drug Administration's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) regulates biological products and ensures their safety for the American public.

The Good Clinical Practice Program is the focal point within FDA for Good Clinical Practice issues arising in human research trials regulated by FDA.

The Good Clinical Practice Program is the focal point within FDA for Good Clinical Practice issues arising in human research trials regulated by FDA.

This website contains a broad collage of annotated web links. The listed resources provide background information and various positions on issues in bioethics.

This website contains a broad collage of annotated web links. The listed resources provide background information and various positions on issues in bioethics.

The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) promotes integrity in biomedical and behavioral research supported by the Public Health Service (PHS) at about 4,000 institutions worldwide.

The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) promotes integrity in biomedical and behavioral research supported by the Public Health Service (PHS) at about 4,000 institutions worldwide.

IRB information and forms for review of research with human subjects

University Policy, guidelines, forms, etc.

University Policy, guidelines, forms, etc.

This guideline on Surveying and Evaluating Ethical Review Practices is intended to be complementary to the Operational Guidelines. Its purpose is to facilitate and support procedures for assisting the development of quality and transparency in ethical review.

All biomedical research involving human subjects has to comply with established international guidelines that require ethical and scientific review of the research, alongside informed consent. This book sets out operational guidelines for ethics committees