What You Need to Know
Hackensack Meridian Health has once again achieved accreditation from an independent association that affirms the highest standards in human research.
The AAHRPP (Association for Human Research Protection Program) Council renewed HMH’s accreditation for another five years, making the network among a select group of 245 institutions across the world.
AAHRPP’s mission is to accredit “high-quality human research protection programs in order to promote excellent, ethically sound research.” It is widely viewed as the “gold standard” for research excellence, and accreditation is only granted to those human subjects protection programs that can demonstrate that they meet their high standards and requirements.
HMH received its original AAHRPP accreditation in September 2017. After the initial accreditation, the first re-accreditation takes place three years later. Amid the pandemic and its attendant limitations, HMH was reaccredited by the organization.
This time around, the accrediting body highlighted exceptional executive leadership of the HMH research program.
“This is big news for our organization, and is a testament to how we have centralized and improved operations across all our many sites,” said Ihor Sawczuk, M.D. FACS, president of Academics, Research, and Innovation at HMH. “The Hackensack Meridian Health Research Institute has become a top-notch institution, and yet we still find ways to ‘keep getting better.’”
Congratulations to all those who contribute to the protection of human subjects in research, which is being performed at the highest level.
For more information on this distinction visit the group’s website at: https://aahrpp.org/find-an-accredited-organization