2022 Holiday Closure

Please note that the HREBA office will close for the winter holidays on December 23, 2022 at 4:30 pm and will re-open on January 3, 2023 at 8:15 a.m.

If you have a question, please email the appropriate committee at the following address. These emails will be monitored during the closure:

Cancer Committee: cancer@hreba.ca

Clinical Trials Committee: clinicaltrials@hreba.ca

Community Health Committee: communityhealth@hreba.ca

For urgent requests only, the emergency line is 780-999-6792.

2021 Office Holiday Closure

Please note that the HREBA office will close for the winter holidays on December 24, 2021 and will re-open on January 4, 2022.

If you have a question, please email the appropriate committee at the following address. These emails will be monitored during the closure:

Cancer Committee: cancer@hreba.ca

Clinical Trials Committee: clinicaltrials@hreba.ca

Community Health Committee: communityhealth@hreba.ca

For urgent requests only, the emergency line is 780-999-6792.

2020 Office Holiday Closure

Please note that the HREBA office will close for the winter holidays on December 24, 2020 and will re-open on January 4, 2021.

For urgent requests only, the after hours emergency line is 780-999-6792.

2019 Office Holiday Closure

Please note that the HREBA office will close for the winter holidays on December 25, 2019 and will re-open on January 2, 2020.

For urgent requests only, the after hours emergency line is 780-999-6792.

Board of Record Agreement

As of August 1, 2019, investigators submitting to any of the Health Research Ethics Board of Alberta (HREBA) committees will be required to have an official agreement appointing HREBA as their Board of Record. For investigators conducting research through private practice or other community-based organizations (both for and not-for profit), a signed Board of Record Agreement will be required.

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U.S. Common Rule Update

On January 21, 2019, the 2018 revision of the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (aka the “Common Rule”, found in 45 CFR 46) was implemented. Research that is sponsored or monitored by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (US DHHS – NIH, NCI, OHRP) is subject to this revised regulation, within the confines of existing Canadian regulations and laws.

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Office Holiday Closure

Please note that the office will be closed due to the winter holidays as follows:

  • Monday December 24th to Wednesday December 26th, 2018
  • Tuesday January 1st, 2018

For urgent requests only, the after hours emergency line is 780-999-6792.

Expanded External View Access to the IRISS System

Effective October 29, 2018 the Health Research Ethics Board of Alberta (HREBA) will be enabling improved view access to cancer studies in the IRISS system for research administration personnel at the Northern Alberta Clinical Trials and Research Centre (NACTRC). NACTRC is a joint venture between the University of Alberta and Alberta Health Services and provides administrative and operational services for research involving Alberta Health Services in the greater Edmonton area.

View access for NACTRC will be enabled according to information provided by researchers within the HREBA – Cancer Committee applications on a study by study basis.

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01 Oct 2018 – Data Migration Completed

As of October 1, 2018 all open HREBA-CC paper files have been migrated to the IRISS system. Paper/e-mail submissions are no longer accepted as all ethics files are now being processed through IRISS. E-mail info@hreba.ca if you have any questions.