Adil E. Shamoo calls for less strict regulation of low-risk human subjects research in a column in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Shamoo, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, says that current requirements create unnecessary roadblocks. Among the examples of low-risk research are social science surveys, interviews, and observations involving competent adult subjects that do not reveal personal information.

PRI’s Data Archive maintains a page of information about requirements for secondary data research at Penn State.

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