Somsekhar Hemalatha, Prabhakaran Dorairaj, Tandon Nikhil, Rousselle Rebecca, Fisher Sarah, Stein Aryeh D
Public Health Foundation of India, ISID Campus, 4 Institutional Area, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110 070 INDIA.
Indian J Med Ethics. 2012 Oct-Dec;9(4):255-8. doi: 10.20529/IJME.2012.086.
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).
印度新德里的印度公共卫生基金会（PHFI）和美国亚特兰大的埃默里大学，是由美国国立心肺血液研究所/联合健康集团资助的南亚心血管代谢风险降低卓越中心（COE）的牵头合作伙伴，该卓越中心为合作研究项目的开展提供了平台。在国立卫生研究院/福格蒂国际中心的资助下，启动了一个项目，以确保对这项合作研究进行无缝、全面且高效的审查。该项目的主要活动包括：1）实情调查活动，其中包括开展案例研究以及审查相关伦理审查委员会（ERC）的政策和程序；2）为卓越中心ERC成员和工作人员举办培训讲习班；3）对持续审查和修正案进行并行审查试点。目前已启动合作研究并行审查流程，项目现在同时提交给埃默里大学机构审查委员会（IRB）和PHFI机构伦理委员会（IEC）。
