Mission and Objectives

Mission

Yale strives to adhere to the highest ethical standards in the protection of human research participants and seeks to identify and implement means for ensuring the protection of its research participants. The program seeks to ensure that Yale:

• Create a culture of respect for, and awareness of, the rights and welfare of human research participants at Yale and its affiliated research partners while advancing scientific knowledge and facilitating the highest quality research.
• Is guided by the ethical principles set forth in the Belmont Report: Respect for Persons, Beneficence and Justice.
• Assess the effectiveness and independence of the Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) in their review of research activities.
• Facilitate compliance of its researchers with the federal regulations, and protection of research participants.
• Develop new approaches that better serve the overarching mission of the HRPP, such as continuing education and training, ensuring scientific integrity, tracking and monitoring research activities and assessing the overall effectiveness of the HRPP.

Objectives

Yale University recognizes that the protection of individuals participating in research transcends traditional personnel and departmental jurisdictions. Therefore Yale maintains an integrated human research protection program (HRPP) under the oversight of the Associate Vice President for Research Administration. The HRPP includes mechanisms to:

• Establish a formal process to monitor, evaluate, and continually improve the protection of human research participants.
• Exercise oversight of research protection.
• Educate investigators and research staff about their ethical responsibility to protect research participants.
• When appropriate, intervene in research and respond directly to concerns of research participants.
• Ensure Research Partners maintain the resources need to support the research infrastructure.