The Faculty of Health Sciences has appointed a Human Research Ethics Committee to oversee the safety, rights and welfare of human participants in research. The composition and functions of the Committee must meet standards laid down in the Department of Health’s Ethics in Health Research: Principles, Structures and Processes, 2015 (2nd ...

Information on Health Sciences research on human participants. All health research involving human participants must be reviewed and approved by an accredited human research ethics committee prior to the start of any research activities in …

Research studies involving human participants (patients, volunteers) or research animals need to be authorised by the FHS Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) or the FHS Animal Research Ethics Committee (AEC) before the research can be conducted.

Collaborating lead investigators are in different UCT faculties (except the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), where projects involving FHS personnel must be submitted to the FHS Health Research Ethics Committee (HREC)), and where the project does not clearly fall under the ambit of any of the individual faculties they represent; and/or where ...

The first step to obtaining access to UCT staff/ students for research is to obtain ethics approval from the Humanities Faculty Research Ethics Committee (FREC) via a departmental research ethics committee.

UCT Researchers who plan to conduct health research as defined broadly in South African law must seek and obtain the prior approval of the Health Research Ethics Committee (HREC), which is the registered ethics committee qualified to review and approve such research.

The IFHREC is a centrally based UCT Research Ethics Committee that will review and approve certain projects from all faculties and UCT-affiliated research institutes, centers, and units, except for all projects from the Faculty of Health Sciences.

Faculty of Science Research Ethics All research in the Faculty of Science must be conducted in alignment with the UCT Policy for Responsible Conduct of Research. Your research may also require additional review from an Institutional Review Board …

ensure that the DRC & HOD signs your application before submission to the HREC Office. All these are essential to facilitate assessment by the reviewers prior to the meeting. Any delay/late submission will require the protocol to be held over to a later meeting date.

The Research Ethics Committee (hereafter the REC) of the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED) exists to support the research activity of the Faculty specifically with regards to research which involves human participants.