Institutional Review Board Recruitment
The Human Subjects Protection Program at The University of Arizona in Tucson is seeking individuals to serve on its Institutional Review Board (IRB).
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. The IRB reviews all studies that involve human participants and determines if the studies should be given permission to proceed. Such review promotes excellent, ethically sound research and ensures that the rights, safety, and welfare of all human research participants are protected.
Studies involving human participants are conducted by many UA colleges and departments, including the departments of psychology, sociology and anthropology and the colleges of medicine, nursing, pharmacy and public health. In addition, the IRB reviews studies proposed by researchers with University Medical Center, University Physicians Healthcare and the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System.
IRB members are volunteers and include representatives from the Tucson community and UA faculty members. Service as an IRB member requires no special qualifications or restrictions with respect to educational background, degree or expertise.
The IRB includes four committees:
- The Human Subjects Committee performs initial review of non-oncology (non-cancer-related) and biomedical research.
- The Continuing Review Committee handles continuing review of research that has received approval by the Human Subjects Committee. In addition, this board reviews all single-patient use and humanitarian use of medical devices.
- The Social and Behavioral Sciences Committee performs initial and continuing review of behavioral/social science research.
- The Biomedical Committee reviews mainly oncology (cancer) research.
Committee members are asked to serve a minimum of three years. They meet every two weeks if they are regular members, for one-and-a-half to two-and-a-half hours in the afternoon, on the UA campus.
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For more information about serving as an IRB board member, please contact Rebecca Dahl, PhD, RN, director, UA Human Subjects Protection Program at (520) 626-5925. For more information about the UA Human Subjects Protection Program and the IRB, visit the Web site http://www.irb.arizona.edu. |
