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When collaborating with researchers from other institutions, keep in mind the following:

1. UA REB approval only applies to you and your work, not to your collaborators/co-investigators or their activities.
2. Similarly, your co-investigator's ethics approval only applies to them and their activities.
3. Human participant studies involving researchers from multiple institutions may require approval from the REB of each institution.

What is Multi-jurisdictional Research

Contemporary research often involves collaborative partnerships among researchers from multiple institutions or countries. It may call upon the participation of a number of local populations and involve multiple institutions and/or multiple research ethics boards (REBs).

Examples of multi-jurisdictional research include projects conducted by teams from different institutions, combining data from independent projects, or involving data collection at multiple institutions. Here are some examples:

• Local researcher is part of a supervisory committee for graduate student at another university.
• Local researcher contributes to authorship of a publication where contributions to the research were limited to intellectual property contributions, study design or manuscript preparation.
• Local researcher has multiple institutional affiliations and therefore would need to get ethics at each institution where they hold an appointment.
• Local researcher receives data/samples from participants enrolled at another site, local activities limited to data/sample analysis.
• Collaborating with researchers from other Institutions where all researchers are conducting the study at their own site and data will be pooled for analysis and publication.

Streamlined Process - for minimal risk multijurisdictional research

To streamline REB review of research that is conducted by researchers at several institutions (multi-jurisdictional research), we have made some changes to the requirements for ÀÖÓ¯VI (UA) REB review, in line with recent updates to the .

for more information on these categories of minimal risk ethics applications that may be eligible for a streamlined REB review in accordance with .

Category A

Ethics approval already in place at the external PI and/or collaborator’s home Institution AND;

• External (non-UA) researcher wishes to have local institutional staff/resources distribute their survey OR;