The need for Human Value Protection in medical and research establishments resulted from the realization that affirms human rights as a prerogative of all members of society. Individual physicians and research workers may not be able to do what is right in all instances as evidenced by the number of cases on record.

Nexus research foundation ethical review board varies widely in their composition, usually in an attempt to assure a broad based multi-disciplinary membership. In addition to those with research and clinical experience, our ethical review board includes representation from Pastoral Care, Social Work, and Law backgrounds, and often a member with a more academic orientation.

When an ethical dilemma occurs, it is not so much a question of "shall I do the wrong thing or the right thing", it is, "which good that I am trying to achieve is the better good?"

An ethical review board is not a scientific review board - working as a gatekeeper and a regulator for experimental research on humans. Our ERB does not have that kind of a mandate - nor does it wish to. It is not a morals police force going around looking for research workers doing something unethical. It is not a quality review board or risk management committee who is supposed to cover the institution's legal situations.

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