Seeking Examples of Ways that Communities and Community-Academic Partnerships Assess Research Proposals - Please Respond by May 4

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Dear migrant health research colleagues,

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is looking for examples of structures

or mechanisms that communities and community-academic partnerships in the U.S.

and Canada have developed to assess research proposals (i.e., to make decisions

about whether to approve a study as ethical, to make decisions about whether to

engage as a partner in the research, etc). These structures or mechanisms

might include, for example, community advisory boards established by a

community-academic partnership, a research committee established by a

community-based organization, or a community-based Institutional Review

Board/Ethics Review Board (IRB/ERB) established by a community.

If you have one or more examples to share, please respond to

ccphirb@... with the following information by May 4:

*Name of the community, community organization or community-academic

partnership that developed the mechanism or structure

*Brief description of the mechanism or structure

*Any relevant websites or attachments that may help explain the mechanism or

structure in more detail

*Name, phone and email for a contact person we may follow up with for more

information

We are also interested in identifying " promising practices " in the following

areas:

-Meaningfully involving community-based individuals as IRB/ERB members

-Improving the process of IRB/ERB review of community-based participatory

research proposals

We may follow up with you for more information. A summary of responses will be

shared back on the listserv.

Please note that there is an Educational Conference Call Series on

Institutional Review Boards and Ethical Issues in Research underway,

cosponsored by CCPH and the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics

in Research and Health Care. The next two calls in the series will provide

several examples of such community-based structures and mechanisms and what has

been learned from them. Details are at

http://depts.washington.edu/ccph/irbcalls.html

If you have any questions, please contact ccphirb@....

Thank you!

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