Institutional Review Board (IRB)

Our roots are in human research protections and IRB

From standing up a new board to untangling a reliance model that has outgrown its documentation, our consultants have done this work from the inside — as analysts, coordinators, directors and board members.

• Setting up an IRB or ethics committee
• IRB reliance management
• IRB process evaluation and enhancement
• IRB compliance evaluations
• Policies, procedures, forms and checklists
• Training and education
• IRB review consultations
• Temporary IRB members
• Temporary IRB staff
• On-call guidance and support

Single IRB and reliance

Single IRB review is required for most federally funded multisite studies, and reliance arrangements bring their own local requirements, ancillary review triggers and documentation obligations. Our IRB Reliance Checkup maps your current model against two recent projects and returns an engagement report with observations and action items.