👋 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
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✨ About the BSPH IRB |
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The major functions of the BSPH IRB are as follows:
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📸 Meet the team
Joan Pettit, JD, MA
Executive Director, IRB Office
Regulatory Advisor
Thomas Bradsher
Exempt/NHSR IRB Analyst
Anne Fresia
IRB FC, IRB Analyst
Clinical Trials Advisor
Shirleen Harris
Sr. Quality Improvement Specialist
Robin Holland
IRB FC, IRB Administrative Specialist
Tobey McGuiness
IRB X, IRB Analyst
IRB Navigator
Nino Miragliuolo
IRB Administrative Coordinator
IRB Help Desk/PHIRST Help
Shannon Owens
IRB X, IRB Administrative Specialist
Tariq Syed
Assistant Director, IRB Office
IRB FC, IRB Analyst
Susan Trabing
IRB X, IRB Analyst
IRB Operations Administrator
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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 |
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January 24, 2023NIH 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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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
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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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