Ethics at CIHR

CIHR is mandated by Parliament through the CIHR Act to:

The CIHR Strategic Plan 2021-2031 champions foundational ethical principles and values through its commitment to promote health research that is inclusive, collaborative, transparent, culturally safe and focused on real world impact, and leading to equitable health outcomes. The Strategic Plan Priorities are underpinned by the ethical imperatives of:

What we do

Various health research ethics-related activities and issues at CIHR are led by or coordinated by the Ethics Office, including:

CIHR Ethics Committees

The Ethics Office works with ACE and SCOC to advance ethics and ethical research at CIHR.

Secretariat on Responsible Conduct of Research

The Secretariat on Responsible Conduct of Research (SRCR) was created by the three federal research funding agencies – Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) with a dual mandate to promote: a) ethics of human research and b) responsible conduct of research (research integrity). It is responsible for the implementation of both the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans – TCPS 2 (2022) and the Tri-Agency Framework: Responsible Conduct of Research (2021). The SRCR provides support to the Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics and the Interagency Advisory Panel on Responsible Conduct of Research.

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