New Zealand Health and Disability Ethics Committees


 
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This website provides information about the ethical review of health and disability research, and contains information for researchers, study participants and ethics committee members.

There is guidance on how to apply for ethical review, and the ethical review system in New Zealand including information about the ethics committees.

News and Updates


New Terms of Reference for the Health and Disability Ethics Committees (21 Aug 2008)

Changes to the committees' terms of reference:

1. While the Committees' primary responsibility for applications within their jurisdiction remains unchanged, any other regional ethics committee or the Multi-region Ethics Committee may now, if it has capacity, review multi-region and national health and disability research or research from any region.
2. Committees may choose to elect a second Deputy Chairperson. The second Deputy Chairperson may either be a health professional or a lay member.
3. The Chairperson and Deputy Chairpersons may claim an allowance of up to four days per month for additional work between meetings.
4. Committee decisions may be reviewed by the Health Research Council Ethics Committee under the Health Research Council Act 1990.

Please note that applications must still be submitted to the Multi-region Ethics Committee if it is national or multi-regional research or the appropriate regional ethics committee. If an application is unable to be heard at the meeting for which it was submitted, researchers will be advised and offered the opportunity for their application to be considered by another committee if there is capacity or alternatively, applicants may prefer to be given priority on the next agenda for the committee to which it was submitted. Only complete applications, ie with only confirmation of Māori consultation, locality assessment by organisation and SCOTT pending, will be accepted on to an agenda.

Change of email address for Northern Y Regional Ethics Committee/Administrator on leave (21 Aug 2008)

Northern Y Regional Ethics Committee now has its own email address, northerny_ethicscommittee@moh.govt.nz. Please use this for all future correspondence with the Committee.

The Administrator, Amrita Kuruvilla will be on leave from 21 August until 29 September. The committee administration will be covered by other ethics committee administrators during her absence. The phone will be forwarded; messages and correspondence will be attended to daily. If your query is urgent, please contact the National Co-ordinator. Emails to northerny_ethicscommittee@moh.govt.nz will be responded to.

Open Forum in Dunedin 18 August 2008 (30 Jul)

Researchers are invited to attend an open forum with members of the Multi-region Ethics Committee and the Chairperson of the Lower South Regional Ethics Committee from 3 - 5pm on 18 August at the Hutton Theatre, Otago Museum. For more information contact Annisha Vasutavan 04 470 0646, annisha_vasutavan@moh.govt.nz.

Multi-region Ethics Committee meeting (30 Jul)

The Multi-region Ethics Committee's 19 August meeting will be held in the Ministry of Health office, 229 Moray Place, Dunedin.

Central Regional Ethics Committee Administration (30 Jul)

Jiska van Bruggen has taken up a new role. A new appointment is pending for the Administrator, Central Regional Ethics Committee. In the interim, the Central Regional Ethics Committee email and phone will be continue to be monitored by the ethics administration team, including temporary administrator, Martin Dutton.

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