{"id":7,"date":"2025-04-01T12:16:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T16:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/researchethics\/about\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:30:14","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/researchethics\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container-fluid page-wrapper\">\n<section>\n<div id=\"dept_content\">\n<div id=\"sub_content\" class=\"bodytext\">\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div editable=\"rich\">\n<h1 class=\"page-header\">About the Committee<\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div editable=\"rich\">\n<h3>The Institutional Review Board (IRB)<\/h3>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Institutional Review Board (IRB) is the primary mechanism of ethics review on the Cave Hill Campus.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe IRB also serves the Barbados Ministry of Health (MoH). Membership includes representatives from each Cave Hill faculty, the MoH, and the broader community, including both scientists and laypersons.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Who are members of the IRB?<\/h3>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThe IRB includes UWI faculty and staff appointed by the Pro Vice Chancellor for Research, senior staff from the Ministry of Health, and community representatives.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tEach faculty of the University is represented, and the IRB includes at least one community member not affiliated with the University or the MoH.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Committee The Institutional Review Board (IRB) The Institutional Review Board (IRB) is the primary mechanism of ethics review on the Cave Hill Campus. The IRB also serves the Barbados Ministry of Health (MoH). Membership includes representatives from each Cave Hill faculty, the MoH, and the broader community, including both scientists and laypersons. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"About - Research Ethics - The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill","description":"About the Committee The Institutional Review Board (IRB) The Institutional Review Board (IRB) is the primary mechanism of ethics review on the Cave Hill Campus."},"iawp_total_views":33,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/researchethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/researchethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/researchethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/researchethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/researchethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/researchethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/researchethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/researchethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}