Online Institutional Review Board Resources
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
NIH Office for Human Subjects Research (OHSR)
ohsr.od.nih.gov
An office that oversees all internal NIH Institutional Review Boards. The Web site includes a series of useful information sheets.
Ethics Consult Service (PCSC)
bioethics.nih.gov/clinical/index.shtml
A service that assists with the identification and analysis of ethical issues in the design and conduct of research with human subjects and issues related to the care of research subjects at the NIH Clinical Center.
U.S. Federal Government
Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP)
www.hhs.gov/ohrp
A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services office that provides regulatory oversight to all institutional review boards nationwide. The Web site includes information about federal regulations, writing consent forms, completing Single Project Assurance forms, and more.
Food and Drug Administration
www.fda.gov/oc/ohrt/irbs/default.htm
A comprehensive guide to FDA requirements for IRBs and for human subjects research.
Other Organizations
Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIMR)
www.primr.org
The primary IRB professional organization.
The IRB Forum
www.irbforum.org
A forum for the discussion of ethical, regulatory and policy concerns about human-subjects research.
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH)
www.asbh.org
The primary professional society for bioethics research and clinical consultation.
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