IEC related activities

  ICMR-WHO survey of Institutional Ethics Committees was done to examine the functioning of ethics committees. This was done to develop training programs and capacity building through corrective measures based on the lacunae that would become apparent following analysis of the survey.

  Training of the trainers was conducted to monitor ethics committees which were selected on the basis of the above survey (with a view to increase understanding) of the existing status of ethics committee functioning.

   ICMR’s  Central Ethics Committee on Human Research (CECHR) examines proposals of national relevance or national significance and also ethical issues  which are brought to its notice by the Institutional Ethics Committees or Govt. departments. It also reviews proposals referred to it by the Health Ministries of Central Government and State Governments and other national government and private agencies which may have a national impact. All work related to CECHR is managed by the Bioethics cell.