Human Research Ethics Committee
The Department of Health WA Human Research Ethics Committee (DoHWA HREC) is a Human Research Ethics Committee with special responsibility for oversight of the use and disclosure of personal health information held in the Department of Health WA data collections.
The Confidentiality of Health Information Committee (CHIC) is no longer approving research projects. The DOHWA HREC will monitor ongoing research projects which have CHIC approval.
About DOHWA HREC
- Terms of Reference (PDF 261KB)
- Standard Operating Procedures (PDF 394KB)
- Practice Code for the Use of Personal Health Information (PDF 254KB)
- Members (PDF 43KB)
- Meeting dates (PDF 33KB)
- Monitoring CHIC projects - policy (PDF 23KB)
Do you need DOHWA HREC approval for your project?
- Projects external to Department of Health (including health services, Path West and research organisations) (PDF 20KB)
- Projects Internal to Department of Health (PDF 11KB)
The HREC application process
Applicants for ethics approval please note that the Committee expects an application to be finalised (proofread, edited and corrected) before submission. This particularly applies to participant information sheets and consent forms.
Participant information sheets should be relevant to the needs of the participants in each project and written in plain English.
Forms
- DS001 – Application for data form (Word 353KB)
- HREC002 – Application for Ethical Review form (Word 469KB)
- HREC003 – Annual Progress Report (Word 185KB)
- HREC004 – Final Report (Word 198KB)
- HREC005 – Amendment Request Form (Word 214KB)
- HREC006 – Confidentiality Agreement for Researchers (Word 170KB)
- HREC007 – Confidentiality Acknowledgement (for WA public sector employees) (Word 184KB)
Contact
HREC Executive Officer
(08) 9222 4278
hrec@health.wa.gov.au
File Formats
Some documents for download on this website are in a Portable Document Format (PDF). To read these files you might need to download Adobe® Acrobat Reader.