Institutional Review Board (IRB)
Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Program
The CITI Program is a web-based training programme that provides research ethics education to the research community on human research subjects’ protection. It is available to all SUTD staff and students and can be accessed online via https://about.citiprogram.org. SUTD researchers should register using your SUTD email accounts.
All SUTD researchers who submit a new application to SUTD-IRB need to have the CITI certification, and researchers conducting Human Biomedical Research will need to submit a copy of your CITI Biomedical Research Certificate together with the application for ethics review to the IRB.
All Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator(s) named in the Application Form must attach the following CITI Program Completion Reports while submitting the Application Package to SUTD-IRB for approval:
- SBER applications:
CITI Social & Behavioral Research Completion Report. For registration, kindly refer to: CITI Program New Learner Account Registration (SBER). - HBR applications:
CITI Biomedical Research Completion Report. For registration, kindly refer to CITI Program New Learner Account Registration (HBR).
Additional information
Suggested readings |
Belmont Report |
Declaration of Helsinki |
Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) |
Personal Data Protection Act (2012) |
Ethical guides (SUTD login required) |
Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers |
Guidelines on Authorship |