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1. What is Research Involving Human Subjects? Research involving human
subject(s) is defined as research involved with any living individual about whom
any investigator (whether faculty, staff, or candidate) conducting research obtains
data through an intervention or an interaction with that individual or acquisition of
identifiable private information.

Intervention includes both a manipulation of the human subject‘s environment
or physical acquisition of data performed for research purposes. Interaction
includes any communication or interpersonal contact between the investigator
and the subject for research purposes. Private information includes all information
about an individual or the behavior of an individual that occurs in which an
individual may reasonable expect that no observation is taking place and/or
information that has been provided for specific purposes by an individual who
reasonably expects that such information would not be made public. Such
information must be individually identifiable by the investigator to constitute
research involving human subjects.

Human research is defined as any activity initiated by Bowie State University
faculty, staff, or candidates that has the intent of securing information from
humans for the purpose of
advancing knowledge, whether
funded or not funded. The IRB
must review all research
protocols involving human
subjects. The IRB assumes that
the investigator has included in
the submission of the research
protocol explicit objectives and
formal procedures of the
research so the IRB may
undertake suitable review.

2. Submitting a Proposal to the
IRB. Any candidate proposing
research that involves the use of
human subjects as defined above must submit his or her proposal to the IRB. To
avoid unnecessary delays, the candidate should submit the proposal to the IRB
after all approvals have been obtained from the department and by deadlines
established for submission to the IRB. That is, after the dissertation advisory
committee members have signed the proposal, three copies of the candidate's
doctoral document must be submitted through the department to Chair of the
IRB for review as required in the IRB application package using its format and
procedures.

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