Human Research Review Board (HRRB)

• About
• Policies
• Forms
• Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• Training
• Schedule of Human Research Review Board meetings (and timeline)

About This Committee

The research community has a responsibility to ensure that the treatment of human participants in research meets the highest ethical standards. If the proposed research activity involves human participants and may contribute, through publication, presentation, or dissemination to "generalizable knowledge", then the activity requires review and approval by the UCR Human Research Review Board (HRRB) before any recruitment or research involving human participants may begin. HRRB review and approval is required for all research projects involving human participants, regardless of: 1) whether the project is funded or not, 2) the source of the funds, if funded or 3) the level of risk posed to participants.

Policies

• Certificates of Confidentiality
• Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act - HIPAA 
  • HIPAA Tutorial
• International Compilation of Human Subjects Research Protections
• National Bioethics Advisory Commission - Ethical and Policy Issues in Research Involving Human Participants
• NIH Human Subject Protection Guidelines (45 CFR 46)
• NIH Policy on Children in Research
• NIH Policy and Guidelines on the Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical Research - October, 2001
• Prisoners as Subjects
• Protection of Participants in Behavioral and Social Sciences Research

• Derivation and Use of Human Stem Cells
• Surrogate Consent Law for Persons with Impaired Decisional Capacity
• Research Using Death Records Produced in the State of California

Forms

Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

Training

• Human Subjects Online Tutorial (HRRB)
• Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) - This course covers the core Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) instructional areas with the exception of human subjects and animal welfare. Tutorials for these are located at: (http://or.ucr.edu/appTutorial/TutorialClient/Introduction.asp) for Human Subjects and (http://vet.ucr.edu/ResearchTraining.htm) for Lab Animals.
• Guidance on NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER) on-line tutorial Protecting Human Research Participants (PHRP) (NOT-OD-08-054) National Institutes of Health

Schedule of Human Research Review Board meetings (and timeline)

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