When is review by the DOH IRB required?
Review by the DOH IRB is required for all research involving human subjects in which the Department of Health is engaged. Researchers (employees and agents of the Department, including external researchers like people at universities) should create an application in the Department's online system, IRBWise, when they are proposing to be engaged in any of the following:
- Receiving federal funding for research passed through the Department of Health
- Interacting or intervening with human subjects, or manipulating their environment
- Using DOH facilities for research purposes, including recruitment
- Using DOH non-public individually-identifiable data for research
- Whenever the proposed activities are otherwise determined by the Department to be research requiring review under regulation and policy
The Department of Health has terminated its formal memorandum of understanding providing for its service as the Institutional Review Board for the Department of Children and Families. Research conducted at, or supported by the Department of Children and Families no longer requires review by the DOH IRB (unless the research otherwise meets the above criteria).
See DOHP-400-1.2-07 Activities Subject to IRB Jurisdiction (opens in new window)