Located Inside: Research Policy Handbook

Summary:

Provides assurance of Stanford compliance with Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) regulations for the protection of human research subjects. Stanford University Assurance is effective through March 9, 2009.

Stanford's Multiple Project Assurance is superseded by this Federalwide Assurance.

Related Research Policy Handbook Documents:

1.4    Administrative Panels for Research Compliance
7.2    Women as Subjects in Research
7.3    Use of Human Subjects in Student Projects,
         Pilot Studies and Oral History (Nonmedical)
7.5    Use of Laboratory Personnel as Research Subjects
7.6    Guidelines for Studies Involving Human Volunteers
          Receiving Potentially Addicting Drugs
7.7    Training in the Protection of Human Subjects
          in Research

SEE ALSO:  Research Compliance Office Home Page
                      Administrative Panels on Human Subjects
                      Protection of Human Subjects in Research,
                               a required tutorial
                       Human Subjects Manual

Authority:

United States Department of Health and Human Services
Stanford Vice Provost and Dean of Research

Contact Person:

Research Compliance Director

Stanford University's Federalwide Assurance for the protection of human subjects, along with the related assurances for Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Lucille Salter Packard Children's Hospital, the Palo Alto Institute for Research and Education, and the Veteran's Administration Palo Alto Health Care System are all provided here as pdf files.

The following are incorporated into Stanford's Federalwide Assurance:

• The Belmont Report
  
  
• 45 CFR 46, Code of Federal Regulations
  Title 45: PUBLIC WELFARE, Part 46: PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS

The links above are connected to the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) web site, and will open in a separate browser window.

The assurances provided here were approved on August 14, 2001.