Assistant To The Chair, Human Subjects Protection Committee
CurrentRAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis. As a nonpartisan organization, RAND is widely respected for operating independent of political and commercial pressures. Our core values are quality and objectivity. The Human Subjects Protection Committee (HSPC) is the Institutional Review Board (IRB) that evaluates research protocols to ensure that research at RAND that involves human subjects complies with the body of general regulations that have come to be known as the “Common Rule.” This entails applying principles of beneficence, respect for persons, and justice, and it often requires the resolution of difficult issues related to consent, risk, deception, mandatory reporting obligations, and confidentiality, among others, and often with respect to vulnerable populations, which makes adjudication of those issues especially delicate and complex.
