Dear SDOH 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 
[log in to unmask] 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 [log in to unmask]

Thank you!

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