Institutional Review Board (IRB) Forms

• Radiation Safety Submission Form
• Genetic Testing Appendix

• Optional Study Procedures HIPAA Authorization Form
• Sample consent form for the use of specimens
• Emory University and Children’s informed consent (for use only when Emory University study staff members are included)
• Children’s Hughes Spalding Hospital and Children’s informed consent
• List of 18 HIPAA identifiers
• HIPAA guidance FAQs

• Children’s Emergency Use Consent Form
• Children’s and Emory University Emergency Use Consent Form

• Children’s Expanded Access Consent Form
• Children’s and Emory University Expanded Access Consent Form

• Chart review guidance
• Guidance for waiver of documentation of consent (surveys and telephone consent template)
• Hints for writing an informed consent form
• Humanitarian use device (HUD) guidance
• IRB Reference Manual
• New investigator tip sheet
• Proposal for Research Financial Report Form
• Reasonably available guidance
• Research self-auditing tool

• Short-form guidance
• English: informed consent
• Chinese: informed consent and assent template
• French: informed consent and assent template
• Korean: informed consent and assent template
• Portuguese: informed consent and assent template
• Russian: informed consent and assent template
• Spanish: informed consent and assent template
• Spanish: authorization to release protected health information for research purposes
• Somalian: informed consent and assent template
• Vietnamese: informed consent and assent template
• Ethiopian Amharic: informed consent and assent template
• Gujarati: short-form consent
• Swahili: short-form consent

• Event reporting guidance
• External Event Report Renewal Summary Form

IRB Authorization Agreement Acknowledgment and Closeout forms are required if collaborative research is reviewed by the Emory University School of Medicine, Georgia Institute of Technology, Morehouse School of Medicine or Georgia State University IRBs:

• IRB Authorization Agreement Acknowledgment Form (initial)
• IRB Authorization Agreement Acknowledgment Form (closeout)