The meeting of the Secretary’s Advisory Committee for Human Research Protections (SACHRP) scheduled for July 21-22, 2014, will include a session on “Regulatory Issues Concerning Big Data.” Joe Selby, MD, MPH, executive director of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), will speak, along with leaders from the NIH and FDA. The session is scheduled for 1:30-3:45 pm on Monday, July 21.

SACHRP provides recommendations on human subjects protection to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and reviews activities of the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP). Other topics to be covered during the two-day meeting include informed consent comprehension, the return of research results to human subjects, and ethical/regulatory issues in interventional social media research.

The meeting is available to the public and will be videocast live.

View the meeting agenda
View the live webcast (available July 21-22, 2014)

A link to materials from the meeting will be provided in an update to this post when available.