UA Human Subjects Protection
Program First Institution in
To Be Fully
Accredited by AAHRPP
Contact: Jean Spinelli or George
Humphrey, (520)
626-7301
Dec. 8, 2005
or Susan Guthrie, (602) 631-6555
The Human Subjects
Protection Program at The
University of Arizona in
The UA
Human Subjects Protection Program protects the rights and welfare of human
participants in -- and ensures the integrity of -- all UA research studies
involving human participants. Nearly every department on the UA main and
health sciences campuses conducts research involving human participants.
Studies take place at on- and off-campus locations.
The AAHRPP offers
voluntary accreditation to institutions engaged in research involving human
participants. The accreditation process is based on self-assessment,
peer-review and education. Organizations must demonstrate that extensive
safeguards are built into every level of their research operation. AAHRPP
standards require that all
research meet the federal government protections for research participants (the
federal government requires such protections only for federally sponsored or
federally regulated research) and also requires additional protections,
including conflict-of-interest rules and community education.
“This
accreditation is an acknowledgement of our commitment to protecting human
subjects, and establishes a ‘gold seal’ of rigorous protection standards for
human research participants,” says Rebecca
Dahl, PhD, RN, director, UA Human Subjects Protection
Program.
Full accreditation is valid for three years, and accredited
organizations submit annual reports to AAHRPP based on the status of their human
research protection programs.
The UA Human Subjects Protection
Program includes three institutional review boards (IRBs) that oversee
behavioral science and biomedical research and provide continuing review of
studies involving human participants. IRB members include UA faculty
members and representatives from the
Theodore J. Glattke, PhD, chairperson of
the UA Behavioral Science Committee IRB and professor, UA Department of Speech,
Language, and Hearing Sciences and UA Department of Surgery, has been invited to
present at the AAHRPP national conference scheduled for
Feb. 26-28, 2006, in
The UA Human Subjects
Protection Program offers a free brochure with information about participating
in UA research studies; for a copy, contact the UA Human Subjects Protection
Program, (520) 626-6721. More information also is available on the UA
Human Subjects Protection Program web site, www.irb.arizona.edu.
Since its inception in 2001,
AAHRPP has accredited 28 organizations representing a total of 88 entities, and
currently is working with more than 210 organizations already in the
accreditation process. AAHRPP founding members include the Association of
Medical Colleges, Association of American Universities, Consortium of Social
Science Associations, Federation of American Societies for Experiment Biology,
National Association of State Universities and
Senior Public Affairs
Coordinator
sguthrie@email.arizona.edu
To read about the
expansion of the UA College of Medicine in Phoenix go to http://www.phoenix.medicine.arizona.edu/About/News/Campus/