Celebrating BC’s harmonization journey

24 April 2024

Vancouver Community College and Emily Carr University research ethics boards recently joined BC’s research ethics harmonization process. 

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Improvements to Operational Approval application process for research studies

4 December 2023

The Research Approval Processes Project (RAPP) is set to make improvements to the operational approval application process for research studies. Operational Approval, also known as an Operational Review, holds a crucial role in evaluating how a study may impact a Health authority's operations.

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RAPP update

20 September 2023

RAPP is made up of three key streams of work, ethics, operations, and data access.  The data access stream will be informed by Health Data Platform British Columbia’s (HDPBC) strategy that will enable a simplified, unified approval process for access to datasets that span multiple areas and organizations within the health sector.

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