Guiding Principles
- To enable all health research done in the community to receive ethical review.
- The primary focus will be on the impact of health research on the individual and/or community.
- To seek to review health research that may be linked to individuals and/or community by name or other means of identification.
- Decisions made by the committee are conditional upon prior approval of methodology by this committee, or a body acceptable to the committee.
- To preserve privacy, confidentiality, and dignity, in the process of conducting research in the community, while optimizing benefit and minimizing risk to physical, mental and spiritual aspects of life.