New protocol submissions to COUHES after January 21, 2019 are subject to the Revised Common Rule, also known as the New Rule, and must fulfill the requirements outlined under the New Rule.
If a study you are conducting includes procedures and/or populations that are listed in the menus below, click on appropriate items to view corresponding guidelines for protecting the rights of human subjects.
Procedures
- Adult Subjects with Cognitive Impairment and Reduced Decision-Making Capacity
- Audiotaping and Videotaping
- Additional Review (China, Russia or Saudi Arabia)
- COUHES Policy for Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk
- Data Handling When Subject Withdraws
- Data Protection
- Data Sharing
- Electronic Consent
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Research Activities
- Guidance on Use of Protected Health Information for Research Purposes
- Guidelines for Single IRB
- Guidance for Student Research and Class Projects
- Including Women of Childbearing Potential in Research and Pregnancy Testing
- Oral History Activities
- Passive Parental Consent
- Payments and Costs
- Private Data, Human Specimens and Cells
- Research Involving Deception
- Research Involving non-MIT Collaborators
- Research on Mental Health Topics
- Research that may affect privacy of healthcare information
- Surveys, Questionnaires and Interviews
Populations
- Minors
- MIT Students and Lab Members as Subjects
- MRI and Pregnancy
- Non-English Speakers
- Other Vulnerable Subjects
- Pregnant Women
- Students as Subjects
- Subjects with limited comprehension
- Subjects with limited ability to read, hear, or see
Resources for conducting research involving human subjects