Institutional Research Board

For additional information on the Federal regulations governing human subjects research, visit the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) at the US Department of Health and Human Services [http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/].  Additional information on the history of regulations governing human subjects research, including the Belmont Report and the Declaration of Helsinki can be found at this site as well.

For discipline-specific information concerning human subjects research, please see these sites:

Anthropology: http://www.aaanet.org/stmts/ethstmnt.htm
Political Science: http://www.apsahnet.org/content_9437.cfm
Psychology: http://www.apa.org/ethics/code2002.html
Sociology: http://www.asanet.org/public/humanresearch/