Guiding principles for REC and Ethics Approval:
- REC has the jurisdiction to review and approve both internal (all DIU’s research proposals) and external (research proposals from any legal entities from Bangladesh and abroad).
- All relevant researches under the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences must obtain ethical clearance from the REC before embarking on any research project.
- All internal (DIU) students’/ staff research proposals should be submitted to the REC through respective supervisors.
- All external research proposals should be submitted through respective institutional head.
- All applications must follow the prescribed format (see our website) and should be complete with all necessary documents/annexes. Incomplete applications will NOT be reviewed.
- All external applications should reviewed and a decision will be provided by the full REC meeting within 2 months.
- All external reviewers must have a PhD and have a strong academic or research backgrounds. They should also sign a conflict of interest disclaimer.
- The REC meeting will be held frequently in each month.
- The REC Advisory Committee will meet twice a year or if there is any disputed case or if there is any appeal against the REC decision.
- The internal ethics applications will be reviewed by one external reviewer; but all the external applications must be reviewed by at least two external reviewers.
- Remuneration for the reviewers: Internal reviewer: Tk. 2,000 per proposal reviewed; and external reviewers: Tk. 4,000 per proposal reviewed/meeting attended.
- No remuneration will be paid for reviewing the students’ proposals. It will be considered as part of the academic duties.
- Fees for applications: Internal (DIU’s faculties): TK. 5,000 per applications; Internal (Students’ thesis/projects): TK. 500.
- For external proposals: fees will be: i) for Bangladeshi researchers or organizations: TK. 20,000 per proposal/project; ii) for international researchers or organizations: TK. 40,000 per application.
- Fees to be deposited during submission.
- REC reserves the right to refuse any application or request.
- All rights reserved to the Global Health Research Centre, DIU.
- These guidelines will be amended/updated time to time.