The Rhyme and Reason of IRBs: Navigating the human subjects research review process

摘要

From 2007-2012, I conducted research on good governance and community building in Rwanda. Studying Rwanda's colonial history heightened my awareness of the need to protect human research subjects from harm and to teach newer empirical researchers the rhyme and reason of institutional review boards (IRBs), the independent ethics committees that monitor research involving humans. The story begins near Ethiopia . . .