The HRC's Pacific Health Research Committee has launched the revised Pacific Health Research Guidelines (2014).
These guidelines target both Pacific and non-Pacific researchers who are engaged in HRC-funded health research with Pacific populations residing in New Zealand and the realm countries of New Zealand (Cook Islands, Niue, and Tokelau). Researchers conducting non-HRC funded studies in Pacific communities may also find this document useful.
The guidelines aim to ensure that the research undertaken informs and empowers Pacific peoples about health research within their own communities, and their rights as research participants; provides an ethical and operational guide for health research that contributes to the attainment of the highest level of health and wellbeing for Pacific peoples in New Zealand; and provides a common template and shared vision on Pacific health research.