What is HIRBERT?

HIRBERT is a web-based tool designed to assist Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) share best practices and standardize data while allowing flexibility in considering the needs of individual studies at Harvard.

HIRBERT serves the University's three IRBs, located at the Harvard School of Public Health, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Harvard Medical School/Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

Support for HIRBERT came in part from the NIH.

Features of HIRBERT

• Three interactive modules tracking applications, people, and IRB Committee Meeting details
• Applications
• Individual applications tracked by status
• Protocols may be renewed or amended
• Notifications sent for contingent, expiring, and expired protocols
• Advanced search and export capability
• People
• Tracks IRB Committee involvement, researcher protocol involvement, and researcher training status
• Notifications sent for expiring and expired human subjects training certifications
• IRB Committee Meetings:
• Set agenda
• Invite attendees
• Record minutes
• Notification sent to PI when their application is placed on an agenda for review
• Export capability for meeting and agenda details
• Ad Hoc Reporting available