Human Research Ethics

According to the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research human research includes the involvement of humans in any of the following forms:

• surveys, interviews or focus groups,
• psychological, physiological or medical testing or treatments,
• observation by researchers
• having their personal documents or other materials accessed,
• collection and use of their body organs, tissues or fluids (e.g. skin, blood, urine, saliva, hair, bones, tumor and other biopsy specimens) or their exhaled breath, and
• their information (in individually identifiable, re-identifiable or non-identifiable form) as part of an existing published or unpublished source or database being accessed.