New South Wales - Ethics Organisations
Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council (AH&MRC) of NSW Ethics Committee
Evaluates research projects into the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal people in NSW and provides relevant guidelines for researchers.
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)
An institution for information and research about the cultures and lifestyles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. AIATSIS also has an HREC that focusus on Aboriginal participants.
Centre for Human Research in Criminal Justice, Justice Health Human Research Ethics Committee
Evaluates research projects with human participants, focussing on criminal justice and justice health.
Greater Western Area Health Service Human Research Ethics Committee
Evaluates research projects with human participants in the health service.
Hunter New England Human Research Ethics Committee
Provides recommendations to the Chief Executive of Hunter New England Health for approval for research.
Macquarie University Ethics Review Committee (Human Research)
Evaluates research projects with human participants involving staff and students of the university, or conducted by staff or students.
NSW Institute of Psychiatry Human Research Ethics Committee
Evaluates research projects with human participants, focussing on psychiatric health.
Panel on Ethical Research involving Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (PERATSI)
The panel is a sub-committee of the HREC of the University of New England and provides advice to the HREC on those aspects of research proposals dealing with Indigenous Australians.
These two HRECs asses research conducted by or invovling staff and students of the university or health service.
Vision CRC and Institute for Eye Research Human Ethics Committee
The Vision CRC is the largest vision correction research centre in the world, and has an HREC to asses the research that is conducted by its staff and students.
University of Sydney – Human Ethics
This HREC clearly describes the policy on research involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
This project is an ethnography pf the ethics review process for research involving humans and involves an anthropological analysis of research ethics and the ethics review process as culture and cultural process.
View a full list of Human Research Ethics Committees in New South Wales.
