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15
Nov2015

A Time For Debriefing

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15 Nov
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When we interact with colleagues at the 2015 Social, Behavioral, and Educational Research Conference (SBER15), an extremely helpful insight can arrive at any time, and from any source. But it’s difficult to know in advance when we will perceive it, and how it will affect the way we address our own research responsibilities.

For instance, I had no idea that an insight from a morning presentation would affect the way that I approach a challenge that I occasionally face as IRB Chair at Providence College. From time to time, we receive applications for projects in which advance processes of informed consent are not appropriate because they would “tip off” participants and [...] Read more

5
Nov2015

Blog Squad: What We Hope to Gain From AER15

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5 Nov
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AER15 Blog Squad: Jacqueline TulskyJacqueline Tulsky: What challenge do I hope to address at the conference?

Prisoners, drug users, persons living with mental illness. Care to name three groups who are more equally in need of human research and human research protection?  And now with the rapid rise in innovative technologies uniquely suited for use in these complex groups, the approach to ethical protection for them and their investigators is faced with many unanswered challenges. For example, the ethical and legal dilemma involved in data gathering with mobile tracking devices at the time of potentially illegal behavior [...] Read more

9
Apr2015

Managing Meningococcal Disease

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9 Apr
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by Michael (Mike) Kraten, PhD, CPA, IRB Chair at Providence College

It's the news that no academic institution ever wants to hear. A life-threatening infection has struck a student on campus, and then a second student reports the same condition.

Recently, at Providence College in Rhode Island, two students contracted meningococcal infections and were rushed immediately to inpatient facilities. Working closely with the Rhode Island Department of Health (DOH), the College then managed to vaccinate over 3,000 at-risk undergraduate students in a single, brief, and intense outreach campaign with extensive information and medical applications.

That caught the attention of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where epidemiologists and public health [...] Read more

18
Feb2015

The Persistence Of Community

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18 Feb
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by Michael (Mike) Kraten, PhD, CPA, IRB chair at Providence College

As the chair of our college's institutional review board (IRB), you can only imagine how frequently I am asked questions about the 45 CFR Part 46 federal regulations regarding the requirements of human subjects research.
What types of questions? For instance:

  • I'm not sure whether my study is contributing to "generalizable knowledge." How can I tell whether it's doing so?
  • How can I possibly know whether I'm potentially damaging someone's "financial standing, employability, or reputation" with my work?
  • When does a "practicable" study become impracticable?

These questions, though tricky, are certainly not impossible to answer. [...] Read more