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NEWS TITLE BRTTH-IRB joint PHREB and SIDCER-FERCAP Survey Visit.

FB (Say Something) BRTTH-IRB is aiming for PHREB Level III Accreditation, the highest level
of accreditation by the Philippine Health Research Ethics Board.
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After having been Level 2 Accredited in 2017, the BRTTH endeavors to achieve Level 3
Accreditation this 2018 – the highest award given among Research Ethics Committees (RECs)
in the country. Concurrently BRTTH aims to be SIDCER* Recognized by FERCAP – a project
of the World Health Organization (WHO) Special Training and Research Programme in Tropical
Diseases for Asia and the Western Pacific.

The purpose of the visit was to assist the BRTTH Institutional Review Board (IRB) in reviewing
its practices and appraise its performance against the PHREB standards for accreditation and
SIDCER standards for recognition Joint PHREB-SIDCER Team was composed by: DR.
CRISTINA E. TORRES – Survey Coordinator, DR. MILAGROS M. VIACRUCIS – Lead
Surveyor, DR. SONIA E. BONGALA – Surveyor, Prof. TERESITA DE GUZMAN - Surveyor,
Part of the accreditation-survey was also to provide training for aspiring Research Ethics
Committees to become PHREB accredited. Trainees came from three participating agencies:
Cardinal Santos Medical Center, Department of Health Regional Office V, Bicol Medical Center.

After completion of recommendations, the awarding for the PHREB Level III Accreditation will
be at Baguio City in August 2018 during the PNHRS Week Celebration, while for the FERCAP-
SIDCER Recognition, it will be held at Taiwan by November 2018.
Written by Franco Velasco, BRTTH IRB Secretariat

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