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Institutional Review Board
At Sangath, we place great emphasis on ensuring the highest standards of ethics in research. Our Institutional Review Board (IRB) follows the National Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical and Health Research Involving Human Participants (2017). Independent Trial Steering Committees, Data Monitoring and Ethics Committees oversee our trials, and we seek Health Ministry Screening Committee’s (HMSC) approval for all our international collaborative research projects.
The Sangath Institutional Review Board is provisionally registered with the Department of Health Research, Govt. of India since Dec 2022, EC/NEW/INST/2022/3063.
The details of the members constituting the Sangath IRB are as below.
| S.no | Name | Qualification with Specialization | Designation/ role of member in Ethics Committee | Affiliated with Sangath |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mr. Raj Vaidya | Master of Pharmacy | Chairperson | No |
| 2 | Ms. Urvita Bhatia | Master of Science in Global Mental Health | Member Secretary | Yes |
| 3 | Dr. Amit Dias | (MD in Preventive and Social Medicine | Basic Medical Scientist | No |
| 4 | Dr. Abhijit Nadkarni | Diploma in Psychological Medicine (DPM) and PhD in Epidemiology | Clinician | Yes |
| 5 | Dr. Anant Bhan | MHSc in Bioethics | Social Scientist and Bioethicist | Yes |
| 6 | Mr. Arjun Kapoor | B.A. LLB (Hons.) and M.A. Psychology (Psychosocial Clinical Studies) | Legal Expert | No |
| 7 | Mr. Prashant Agrawal | Master of Laws (LL.M.) | Legal Expert | No |
| 8 | Ms. Larissa Rodrigues | M.Sc (Home Science) Human Development | Community Representative and Lay Person | No |
| 9 | Mr. Salik Ansari | BSc and MSc (Research Ethics) | Member and Alt-Member Secretary | Yes |
| 10 | Dr. Supriya Bhavnani | PhD in Genetics | Scientific Member | Yes |
| 11 | Mr. Fredric Azariah | MSc (Public Health) | Scientific Member | No |
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES
The Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) aim to define the procedures that the IRB will follow to ensure quality, consistency and transparency in the ethics review and approval of research proposals, and the monitoring of ongoing research at Sangath. These SOPs are based on ICMR’s ethical guidelines for biomedical research.
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