The main aim of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) is to safeguard the rights and welfare of human participants in research.

The mandate of the IRB is to provide ethical and regulatory oversight of research that involves human subjects by primarily using the highest ethical standards for human research protections in all human subjects research by upholding the ethical principles delineated in the Belmont Report which are:

• Respect for People
  • Persons ought to treated as autonomous agents
  • Persons with diminished autonomy are entitled to protection from harm and coercion
    
    
• Beneficence
  • The decisions of persons ought to be respected. 
  •  Persons ought to be protected from harm and efforts should be made to secure their well-being.
  • Possible benefits must be maximized and harms minimized.
    
    
• Justice
  • Fairness in distribution (participants should be selected impartially)
  • The benefits and burdens of research should be justly distributed.

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