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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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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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...