title: Review of multinational human subjects research: experience from the PHFI-Emory Center of Excellence partnership.
abstract: Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi, India and Emory University, Atlanta, USA, are lead partners in the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute/UnitedHealth funded Center of Excellence (COE) in Cardio-metabolic Risk Reduction in South Asia which provides a vehicle for the development of collaborative research projects. With funding from the National Institutes of Health/ Fogarty International Center, a project was commenced to ensure seamless, thorough and efficient review of this collaborative research. The primary activities of the project are: 1) fact-finding activities which included conduct of a case study and review of policies and procedures of the involved ethics review committees (ERCs); 2) training workshops for COE ERC members and staff and 3) piloting of parallel review of continuing reviews and amendments. A process of parallel review of collaborative research has now been initiated and projects are now submitted simultaneously to the Emory institutional review board (IRB) and PHFI institutional ethics committee (IEC).
authors.affiliation: Public Health Foundation of India, ISID Campus, 4 Institutional Area, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110 070 INDIA.
authors.forename: Hemalatha
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Somsekhar
authors.forename: Dorairaj
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Prabhakaran
authors.forename: Nikhil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tandon
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rousselle
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fisher
authors.forename: Aryeh D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Stein
mesh_terms: D028744:Ethics Committees, Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005845:Georgia; D006805:Human Experimentation / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007391:International Cooperation; D017146:Models, Organizational; D015337:Multicenter Studies as Topic / Q000941:ethics*; D016730:Program Development