New Policy Implementation Guidance

September 15, 2020

Dear Research Community

Over the past 18 months, we have rewritten the HRPP policies to be compliant with the revised common rule and consistent with the reorganization of OHSRP and the NIH IRBs.  As these policies are all inter-related, with few exceptions we were not able to implement them as they were developed and cleared.  Now that they are complete, we are rolling them out in groups between now and years end.  We understand that releasing so many new policies rapidly is a little overwhelming.  Hopefully, as you become familiar with the new policies, you will see that in many cases there is not a lot of change in the actual policy requirements, and for those that there is change, it is for the better.

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