Research Ethics Board

The National Research Council of Canada's Research Ethics Board (NRC-REB), and its support staff are central to the NRC's human participant ethics functions.

Reporting to the Senior Executive Committee through the Secretary General, the NRC's REB reviews applications for human participants ethics approval, oversees and advises on the ethical aspects of all research involving human participants in which the NRC participates, and provides a resource for education, guidance and leadership in the application of ethical principles in the conduct of research involving human participants.

Meeting schedule

The NRC Research Ethics Board meets regularly (see meeting schedule below).

Protocols can be submitted at any time and may be processed outside of the meeting schedule if they are eligible for Chair or Sub-committee review. Protocols that are eligible for sub-committee review, but are submitted on or near the meeting submission deadline, will be included on the meeting agenda.

Membership list

Chair

• Gordon DuVal, SJD
  Carleton University,
  Office of Research Ethics

Vice-Chair

• Geneviève Gagnon
  pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance

NRC members

• Anita Smith
  Health, Safety and Environment
• Calvin Li
  Industrial Research Assistance Program
• Christopher Brown
  Industrial Research Assistance Program
• Evan Laye
  Secretary General's Office
• Jennifer Veitch, Ph.D.
  Construction
• Jonathan Power, Ph.D.
  Ocean, Coastal and River Engineering
• Karine Turcotte
  Medical Devices
• Margaret McKay, J.D.
  Digital Technologies
• Stephen Downes
  Digital Technologies

Community member

• Oyindamola Esho

Resource persons

• Erin Skrapek
  NRC-REB Secretariat
• Leah Kennedy
  NRC-REB Secretariat
• Adriana Bedoya
  NRC-REB Secretariat
• Aimée Allard
  NRC-REB Secretariat