About the Committees

Multi-region Committee

• Jurisdiction
• Contact details
• Membership
• Meeting dates, agendas and minutes
• Terms of reference
• Annual reports

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Jurisdiction

The Multi-region Ethics Committee is responsible for reviewing health and disability research studies that either:

• have study localities in more than one ethics committee region
• are actively recruiting participants in more than one ethics committee region, or
• use a database, samples or other information gathered from more than one ethics committee region.

The four ethics committee regions are below.

DHB regions

Northland
Waitemata
Auckland
Counties Manukau
Waikato
Lakes
Bay of Plenty
Tairawhiti


Taranaki
Whanganui
Hawke's Bay
MidCentral
Wairarapa
Hutt Valley
Capital and Coast


Nelson Marlborough
West Coast
Canterbury
South Canterbury

Otago
Southland

Contact Details

Administrator: Emalene Pearson

Emalene Pearson

Postal address:
PO Box 5013
Wellington

Courier address:
c/- Ministry of Health
133 Molesworth St
Wellington

Telephone: (04) 470 0655
Fax: (04) 496 2340

Email: multiregion_ethicscommittee@moh.govt.nz

Rebecca Stewart

Postal address:
PO Box 5013
Wellington

Courier address:
c/- Ministry of Health
133 Molesworth St
Wellington

Ph: (04) 470 0646
Fax: (04) 496 2340
Email: multiregion_ethicscommittee@moh.govt.nz

Membership

Richman Wee, (Chairperson) Lawyer, 6 months (Aug 09)

Cynthia Darlington, (Deputy Chairperson), Pharmacist/pharmacologist, 3 years (Mar 08)

Margaret Horsburgh*, (Deputy Chairperson), Health researcher, 3 years (Dec 06)

Carolyn Weston, Consumer representative, 3 years (Dec 06)

Graham Mellsop*, Health practitioner, 3 years (Dec 06)

Dr Helen Moriarty*, Health practitioner, 3 years (May 07)

Dr Russell Franklin*, Health practitioner, 3 years (May 07)

Sheila Williams, Biostatistician, 3 years (Mar 08)

Maliaga Erick, Consumer representative, 3 years (Mar 08)

Christopher Wynne*, Health practitioner, 3 years (Mar 08)

Georgina Johnson, Community representative, 3 years (Sep 08)

John Baker*, Health researcher, 3 years (Sep 08)

Paul Copland, Ethicist, 3 years (Sep 08)

Hector Matthews, Community representative, 3 years (Aug 09)

*rotating members

Meeting dates, agendas and minutes

Meeting dates and agenda closing dates

The agendas and minutes of the open meetings of the Multi-region Ethics Committee are available through the links below.

Agenda: 20 October 2009 (Word, 210KB)

Agenda: 15 September 2009 (Word, 197 KB)

Agenda: 18 August 2009 (Word, 192 KB)

Agenda: 21 July 2009 (Word, 229 KB)
Minutes: 21 July 2009 (Word, 168 KB)

Minutes: 16 June 2009 (Word, 109 KB)
Agenda: 16 June 2009 (Word, 159 KB)

Minutes: 19 May 2009 (Word, 139 KB)
Agenda: 19 May 2009 (Word, 219 KB)

Minutes: 21 April 2009 (Word, 114 KB)
Agenda: 21 April 2009 (Word, 271 KB)

Minutes: 17 March 2009 (Word, 327 KB)

Agenda: 17 February 2009 (Word, 282 KB)
Minutes: 17 February 2009 (Word, 332 KB)

Agenda: 20 January 2009 (Word, 245 KB)
Minutes: 20 January 2009 (Word, 302 KB)



View archived meeting minutes and agendas

Terms of Reference

Each health and disability ethics committee has its own Terms of Reference.

Terms of Reference for the Multi-region Ethics Committee (Word, 65 KB)

Annual Reports

2007
Multi-region Ethics Committee Annual Report January 2007 to December 2007 (PDF, 652 KB)

2006
Multi-region Ethics Committee Annual Report January 2006 to December 2006 (PDF, 445 KB)

2004/2005
Multi-region Ethics Committee Annual Report, December 2004 to December 2005 (PDF, 402 KB)

Page last updated: 3 November 2009