1. Overview
1.1 Introduction
The national system of ethics review is comprised of a number of committees with various responsibilities for human ethics and animal ethics.
These are the ethical and responsible conduct guidelines for health research in New Zealand.
The Treaty is the founding document of New Zealand. The principles of partnership and sharing implicit in the Treaty should be respected by all in all health research proposals…
Table of Contents
Overview
1 Introduction
The Treaty of Waitangi
Human ethics
Animal ethics
2 Health Research Council Ethics Committee (HRC EC)
Functions 2
Membership 2
3 National Ethics Advisory Committee (NEAC)
4 Ethics Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ECART)
5 Health and Disability Ethics Committees (HDECs)
6 Approval by HRC EC
7 Approved ethics committees
Institutional ethics committees
Health and disability ethics committees
8 Resource documents relevant to research ethics
New Zealand Acts of Parliament
New Zealand guidelines, regulations and documents
Matters relating to ethical review
Principles for research involving human participants
Informed consent
Scientific design and conduct of the study
Risks and potential benefits
Selection of study population and recruitment of research participants
Payments for participation in research
Protection of research participants’ privacy and confidentiality
Cultural responsiveness
Research requiring ethics approval
Scope of ethics committee review
Special case HRC contracts
Preliminary work under an HRC contract
Research contracts
Career development contracts (CDAs)
How to obtain ethics approval
Application to an approved ethics committee
Locality authorisation
Ethics committee decision
Retrospective approval
Reviews of decisions by ethics committees
Reconsideration
Review by HRC EC (Second opinion)
Appeal
Complaints
Independent Comment
Different forms of research
Use of a new medicine
Clinical trials
Health Research Council Data Monitoring Core Committee (DMCC)
Genetic Technology Advisory Committee (GTAC)
Observational studies
Social, community-based, public health or health services interventions
Surveys of the general population
Collection and use of human materials
Research involving children
Research involving personal health information
Research involving Māori
International collaborations
Research undertaken at an overseas location
Genetic modification
In vivo human gene manipulation proposals
The choice of diseases for clinical therapy or research
Research involving use of placebos
Research involving animals or animal materials
General legal issues in research
Intellectual property rights
Copyright
Conflict of interest
Scientific misconduct
Compensation for injuries suffered by participants in research
Civil liability
Practicing certificates for ethics committee members
