Check Out Our January Newsletter

January 3, 2022

HUA IRB publishes a monthly newsletter. Highlights from the January 2022 edition are: ESTR Unavailable January 13 - 14, IRB Office Remote Again, PIPL Data Considered Sensitive, Changes to Documentation for GDPR, Exculpatory

Check Out Our December Newsletter

December 2, 2021

HUA IRB publishes a monthly newsletter. Highlights from the December 2021 edition are: Office Closed for Winter Recess, Tips for a successful IRB Review, HRPP & HRPP Plan

Undergraduate Research Ethics Training

November 22, 2021

The Undergraduate Research Training Program (URTP) is a comprehensive platform to create better prepared undergraduate researchers. As part of the program, in-person training sessions are held at various dates throughout the academic year. The in-person training sessions are an alternative to the standard online CITI training. The sessions have been developed with students in mind: they are 90 minutes in...

Check Out Our November Newsletter

November 1, 2021

HUA IRB publishes a monthly newsletter. Highlights from the November 2021 edition are: PIPL - New Information Posted, URTP - What You Need to Know, URTP In-Person Training Dates, Recruiting from Harvard Guidelines, ESTR Not Available this Weekend, Principal Investigator Eligibility

Fall 2021 Undergraduate Research Training Dates Announced

October 5, 2021

All Fall 2021 “in-person” sessions will be held by Zoom. Follow the links below to the Harvard Training Portal to sign up for a session. Sign up will close one business day before the session and a Zoom link will be sent by email to all confirmed attendees at that time.

Date: October 27, 2021 (Wednesday)
Time: 4:30-6pm
Location: Zoom (link to follow)

Please sign up for the October 27^th training by clicking ...

Check Out Our October Newsletter

October 4, 2021

HUA IRB publishes a monthly newsletter. Highlights from the October 2021 edition are: Who is an Agent of Harvard?, Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), What it Means to Be a Faculty Sponsor, What's New on Our Website, Coercion and Undue Influence

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Check Out Our September Newsletter

September 30, 2021

HUA IRB publishes a monthly newsletter. Highlights from the September 2021 edition are: New GDPR Document - Just Released, What's New on Our Website, What to Know When Your Harvard Research Study Will Involve MGB, DoD Research Regulations

NEW! Online Appointments Scheduler for HUA IRB Office Hours

September 8, 2021

HUA IRB has implemented an online meeting scheduler. To use it, first find your IRB Reviewer by department: https://cuhs.harvard.edu/find-your-departments-irb-contact-person

Next, find the link to our new Bookings system in the right column of our website:

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Check Out Our August Monthly Newsletter

August 2, 2021

HUA IRB publishes a monthly newsletter. Highlights from the August 2021 edition are: Keep Your IRB Submission Up to Date!, Harvard Catalyst Community Engagement Program, and External IRB Submissions

Annual Renewal – Might be Your Data Plan, Not Your IRB Submission.

July 8, 2021

According to the Harvard Research Data Security Policy (HRDSP), when a data plan is assessed by an Information Security Reviewer, an expiry date will be assigned to each submission in the Research Safety Application (also known as the “Safety” tab). Accordingly, researchers are responsible for renewing their data plan before the assigned expiry date.

Recently, the IRB office has been seeing researchers confuse the renewal of their data plan...

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