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Appointment of New Members The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), are pleased to announce new appointments to the membership of the Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics (PRE). The appointments will take effect over the next years beginning in November 2005. As of November 2005
As of November 2006
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The new members complement and strengthen PRE’s interdisciplinary expertise, diversity and perspectives. PRE is a committee of 12 members drawn from across the country to represent a wide spectrum of disciplines and experience in the ethics of human research. Current members are from such backgrounds as research involving Aboriginal peoples, ethics, anthropology, research administration, sociology, political science, medicine, clinical research, paediatrics, psychology, physics, engineering, and law, as well as community and/or research participants. Biographical information on current members can be found on PRE's website at http://www.pre.ethics.gc.ca/english/aboutus/panelmembers.cfm. Refinements to the terms of appointments and the recent extension to PRE’s term of mandate are reflected in revised terms of reference at http://www.pre.ethics.gc.ca/english/aboutus/termsofreference.cfm The Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics and the Secretariat on Research Ethics are part of the advisory structure created by CIHR, NSERC, and SSHRC, to advance the evolution, interpretation and use of their joint policy, the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS).
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