Institutional Review Board
The Institutional Review Board has been established to ensure that all research involving human participants is subject to ethical review. Capella University's IRB is responsible for reviewing all academic research protocols in order to ensure that research participants are protected from risk, including but not limited to risk of physical, psychological, social, economic, or legal harm.
The IRB has the authority to review all research involving human participants. All persons conducting academic research at Capella University, including all doctoral learners conducting dissertation research and all employees performing academic research, are required to obtain Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval prior to beginning research-related interactions with human participants/subjects and/or their records. Research conducted outside the purview of Capella as described above is not governed by the Capella University IRB.
Capella's University has registered two Institutional Review Boards with the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP): IRB00004629 (IRB 1) and IRB00007798 (IRB 2).
Federalwide Assurance (FWA)
Capella University has filed a Federalwide Assurance (FWA 0009640) with the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) affirming that the University is in compliance with The Common Rule (45 CFR 46). The FWA is Capella's commitment to comply with federal regulations for the protection of human participants in research. The full text of the FWA is available in hard copy by contacting the HRPP.
