Current Sections: Ethics >> Ethics OverviewAccredited health and disability and institutional ethics committees conduct ethics review of applications received by the HRC.
Accreditation is a formal process in which the HRCEC reviews and monitors an ethics committee. For information on accreditation see HRC Guidelines for Ethics Committee Accreditation PDF 207KB
The Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001 requires that, for the purposes of coverage of participants in a clinical trial who sustain injury, all clinical trials must receive ethical approval from an ethics committee accredited by either the HRC or the Director-General of Health.
Additionally, access to data held by the New Zealand Health Information Service database requires that an accredited ethics committee review and approve the health research protocol and data access provisions before data may be released. A research proposal which involves both human and animal subjects will require separate approvals from both human and animal ethics committees.
As a general guide, research originating in a tertiary educational institution will be reviewed by an ethics committee of the institution, if that committee is accredited by the HRCEC to review HRC funding applications. Particular types of researcher proposals received by an accredited Institutional Ethics Committee should be referred to a Health and Disability Ethics Committee. If the committee is not accredited then the research proposal must be reviewed by another committee that is accredited by the HRCEC: see HRC Guidelines for an Accredited Institutional Ethics Committee to refer Research Studies to a Health and Disability Ethics Committee (May 2002) PDF 61KB.
Health and Disability Ethics Committees
Institutional Ethics Committees
Other New Zealand Ethics Committees
Other New Zealand Ethics Committees
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