IRB Approval

Depending on the responsibilities of community research partners, you may or may not need Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval to use Research Ethics for All.

If you want to engage community research partners in recruitment, consent, data collection, and working with individually identifiable data (activities that would engage them in human subjects research), you will likely need approval from your organization to use Research Ethics for All as a research ethics educational program for community research partners.

You can pursue approval to use Research Ethics for All for a single IRB protocol or as an available research ethics education program for community research partners at your organization.

Several universities and institutions have already approved Research Ethics for All: 

• Boston University 
• Cincinnati Children's Hospital 
• Columbia University
• University of Cincinnati 
• Oklahoma State University
• Temple University
• University of Montana
• Oregon Health & Sciences University
• Syracuse University
• University of New Hampshire
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• University of Massachusetts Boston

Research Ethics for All is also available via the CITI Program to subscribers of the Human Subjects Research (HSR) series subscribers. The university office that manages access to CITI educational programs can add Research Ethics for All via the CITI order form (accessed via the ADMIN tab).

For more information you can use to for pursue IRB approval:

Federal regulations and accreditation standards for human subjects research

IRB approval for a research protocol or project

IRB or institutional approval as a research ethics educational program for community research partners