HRPP Newsletter April 2024

Upcoming Changes to ARROW

An ARROW upgrade is currently planned for mid-August.  Changes are intended to make navigating and responding to reviewer notes easier and more intuitive.  Please stay tuned for more information on training sessions in the coming months.

New Certificate of Confidentiality Guidance

Since the implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act, several changes have been made to the types of protections Certificates of Confidentiality (CoC) offer, and to the limitations they impose on any future data sharing.  Additionally, more HHS agencies are issuing automatic CoCs for studies they fund (as NIH has been doing for several years).  As a result, new guidance has been added to the Investigator’s Manual.  Study teams working with an automatic, or ‘deemed’ CoC as a result of funding and any study team considering applying for a discretionary CoC are encouraged to carefully review this guidance.

Recorded Trainings

Recorded trainings can be found on the Educational Outreach page of our web site. Here you’ll find recordings of IRB for Beginners and Changes of Protocol: IRB Submission and Review, among others.