The Research Ethics Review Board (RERB) ensures appropriate procedures and processes exist to safeguard and protect the rights, safety, and welfare of research subjects.  In fulfilling this responsibility, the RERB reviews all research documents and activities that bear directly on the rights and welfare of the subjects of the proposed research. Documents the RERB reviews include: applications/protocols, consent/assent document(s), research equipment forms, tests, surveys, questionnaires and similar measures, and recruitment documents. Before any human being or living organism is the subject of research, the RERB gives proper consideration to:

1. risks to the subjects;
2. anticipated benefits to the subjects and others;
3. importance of knowledge that may reasonably be expected to result;
4. informed consent process to be employed; and
5. conflict of interest and integrity of the research process.

1. Review protocols submitted by researchers from the University and other research institutions in Ghana and abroad proposing to conduct scientific research related to humans, animals, other organisms, genetically modified materials, and the environment.
2. Pay special attention to studies that may include vulnerable participants such as children, prisoners, and mentally challenged people, among others.
3. Act in the full interest of actual or potential research participants and concerned communities, taking into account the interests and needs of researchers, and having due regard for the requirements of relevant regulatory agencies and applicable laws.
4. Ensure that only approved investigators are allowed to conduct proposed studies by considering relevant qualifications as well as training and experience, as documented by current curriculum vitae and/or any other relevant documentation.
5. Provide ethics oversight by monitoring approved projects.
6. Suspend, withdraw approval, or stop research projects that it approved, but which have proved to be harmful to participants to an extent that makes the risk/benefit ratio ethically unacceptable.
7. Ensure that research results have potential benefits to the participating individuals/communities and are disseminated to policy-makers to enable translation into policy and/or interventions.
8. Give ethics support and advice to researchers, policy-makers, and any other stakeholders.
9. Make efforts to conduct community outreach activities to sensitise communities about scientific research and research ethics.
10. Concern itself strictly with the scientific and ethical merits of submitted protocols for approval and execute its functions without bias or influence.
11. Organise regular training and awareness creation on ethics and good research practices for students and staff.

Each Faculty/School has a Research Ethics Review Board.

1. organise regular training and awareness creation on ethics and good research practices for students and staff;
2. provide guidance relating to recommended ethical practices to students in the Faculty/School;
3. conduct an initial review of applications submitted by students proposing to conduct scientific research related to humans, animals, other organisms, genetically modified materials and the environment;
4. recommend students’ applications that meet ethical standards for approval by the RERB;
5. ensure students within the Faculty/School comply with approved ethical standards; and
6. provide ethics oversight through monitoring of approved projects within the Faculty/School.