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👋 Welcome to the BSPH IRB Office

  • The mission of the IRB Office is to ensure the protection of the safety, rights, and welfare of all human participants in research studies conducted by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH) faculty, staff, and students in the U.S. and in countries around the world.

  • The Institutional Review Board (IRB) oversees two IRBs registered with the U.S. Office of Human Research Protections, IRB X and IRB FC, which meet weekly to review human subjects research applications for Bloomberg School faculty and students.

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How do I...? Quick Answers to Quick Questions BSPH IRB Office

  • FAQs - answers with resources

  • We are currently drafting a web page with this information and separate Wiki pages for each topic

📡 Our Office

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✨ About the BSPH IRB

The major functions of the BSPH IRB are as follows:

📸 Meet the team

Joan Pettit, JD, MA

Executive Director, IRB Office

Regulatory Advisor

jpettit@jhu.edu

Thomas Bradsher

Exempt/NHSR IRB Analyst

tbradsher@jhu.edu

Anne Fresia

IRB FC, IRB Analyst

Clinical Trials Advisor

afresia1@jhu.edu

Shirleen Harris

Sr. Quality Improvement Specialist

shharris@jhu.edu

Robin Holland

IRB FC, IRB Administrative Specialist

rholla10@jhu.edu

Tobey McGuiness

IRB X, IRB Analyst

IRB Navigator

tmcguin1@jh.edu

IRBNav@jh.edu

Nino Miragliuolo

IRB Administrative Coordinator

IRB Help Desk/PHIRST Help

lmirag11@jhu.edu

Shannon Owens

IRB X, IRB Administrative Specialist

sowens1@jhu.edu

Tariq Syed

Assistant Director, IRB Office

IRB FC, IRB Analyst

tsyed1@jhu.edu

Susan Trabing

IRB X, IRB Analyst

IRB Operations Administrator

strabing@jhu.edu

📡 Our Office

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🎉 Latest updates

November 14, 2022

Please see the IRB's holiday meeting schedule:  

​Week of Nov. 21:  IRB X meets 11/22, IRB FC 11/23 meeting cancelled

Week of Dec. 26:  No IRB meetings

Week of Jan. 2:  IRB X 1/3 meeting cancelled, IRB FC meets 1/4​

Thank you, and have a safe and healthy holiday season!

🎉 Latest updates

January 24, 2023

NIH now requires researchers to submit data management and sharing plans with their grant proposals, which Data Services offers expertise on.

Please visit Data Services at NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan Support page or contact dataservices@jhu.edu to schedule a consultation. Please also visit this link for more information about resources available for support.

🔍 Where to find us

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The BSPH IRB Office is currently working remotely.

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📧 BSPH.irboffice@jhu.edu

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🌟 Featured resources

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The IRB Office operates with two Boards, IRB X and IRB FC

  • IRB X: Meets every Tuesday, 2:30 pm

  • IRB FC: Meets every Wednesday, 2:30 pm

The members of each Board are listed below:

IRB - X Members

IRB X oversees research that qualifies as Public Health Surveillance, Exempt, as well as non-Exempt research eligible for expedited review.

Name

Dept

Reviewer Expertise

Laura Caulfield, PhD

Chair, IRB-X

IH

 

Maternal and child health, nutrition, and child health surveillance information systems

 

Stella O Babalola, PhD

 

HBS

Strategic communication, gender issues, adolescent reproductive health, and qualitative audience studies

Precious T Davis, PhD

Unaffiliated 

Community member

Stephan Ehrhardt,  MD

EPI

Clinical trials, prevention and treatment of infectious disease

Nicholas Ialongo, PhD

MH

Child mental health, developmental psychopathology, violence prevention

Vanya Jones, PhD

HBS

Program evaluation; injury prevention; violence; health education; youth fighting; health behavior; urban youth; mentoring; parents; school health; older adults

Ann Skinner, MSW

HPM

Survey research methods, patient-reported outcomes, mental health services research, health services research, mentally ill, elderly

IRB - FC Members

IRB FC oversees all research that poses greater than minimal risk to individuals and/or to groups.

Name

Dept

Reviewer Expertise

Joanne Katz, SCD

Chair, IRB-FC

IH

Epidemiology, ophthalmology, biostatistics, community trials, blindness, visual impairment, glaucoma, cataract, trachoma, refractive error, ocular trauma, micronutrients, reproductive health

Sherry Adeyemi

Unaffiliated 

Community member 

Joseph Ali, JD

IH 

Bioethics, research ethics, digital health, capacity strengthening consent, health policy and systems research, disease surveillance

Michele Decker, SCD

PFRH

Social epidemiology, gender-based violence (e.g., sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sex trafficking), its prevention, and its implications for sexual and reproductive health (e.g., STI/HIV, unintended pregnancy), using qualitative and quantitative methods.

Anna Durbin, MD

IH

International health, clinical trials, vaccine trials, phase 1 and 2 trials, flaviviruses, malaria, infectious diseases

Joe Gallo, MD

MH

Mental Health, depression in older adults, medical comorbidity, mixed methods in health services research

Margaret Himelfarb, MPH

Unaffiliated 

Community member 

Jill Owczarzak, PhD

HBS

Qualitative research methods medical anthropologist with expertise in exploring the influence of cultural, social, and political forces on health disparities

Vivian Rexroad, Pharm D

IH

Drugs, herbal, biological, vitamins, medications

Tiffany Roundtree

Unaffiliated 

Community member 

Andrea Ruff, MD

IH

HIV, pediatrics, TB

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