The Cross-Campus HRPP Committee (CCHRPPC), Quality and Compliance Oversight Advisory Committee (QCOAC), and Quality and Compliance Operations Committee (QCOC), as described below, function to support the UW-Madison HRPP. These committees are advisory to the Institutional Official, who oversees the entire UW-Madison HRPP and is responsible for ensuring the protection of human participants at UW–Madison.

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Cross-Campus HRPP Committee (CCHRPPC)

The primary function of the Cross-Campus Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) Committee is to provide advice and consultation to the Institutional Official (IO).

Overall Responsibilities:

  • Advising the IO on issues relating to human research protection
  • Ensuring consistency between IRB policies and state and federal regulations and guidance, University policy, and accreditation standards
  • Review of all current and proposed campus-wide policies for the HRPP and advise the IO on these policies
  • Facilitating communications and exchange of information about human research protection across the HRPP, especially among the IRBs, the HRPP, the UW-Madison’s research community, and the UW-Madison community as a whole
  • Facilitating access by researchers to cross-disciplinary information and training about human research protection through the UW-Madison Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
  • Advising the IO regarding the suspension of human research privileges and reporting to federal authorities in matters involving noncompliance, unanticipated problems, and suspension and termination of research

Core members include:

  • The UW-Madison IO, who serves as Chair of the Committee
  • Chair of the HS IRB
  • Chair of the MRR IRB
  • Four faculty members
  • Two academic research staff

Ex-officio members include:

  • Director of the Office of Research Compliance
  • Representatives of the UW-Madison’s Office of Legal Affairs
  • IRB Office Director and Assistant Directors
  • Consultants may be invited to attend when policies affect their areas

Quality and Compliance Oversight and Advisory Committee

The Quality and Compliance Oversight and Advisory Committee (QCOAC) is a cross-campus committee created to support the UW-Madison HRPP by:

  • Acting as a steering committee for the QCOC to help identify institutional priorities for HRPP quality, effectiveness, efficiency and outreach
  • Serving in an advisory capacity to institutional officials and other entities when events or data suggest the need for changes in HRPP structure, policy, or resources in order to achieve a high quality, effective, efficient HRPP or to achieve outreach goals
  • Working with institutional leadership to identify appropriate resource allocation for the campus-wide HRPP

The QCOAC is chaired by the Institutional Official for the protection of human subjects. Other members include those in leadership positions across the campus-wide HRPP, such as the Associate Deans for Research from the major research colleges and schools, and UW individual(s) with expertise in program evaluation. The committee also includes representatives from the QCOC.

Quality and Compliance Operations Committee

The Quality and Compliance Operations Committee (QCOC) supports the UW-Madison Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) by integrating major cross campus HRPP constituents under one committee structure to facilitate the monitoring of the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of the HRPP, including compliance with organizational policies and procedures and applicable laws, regulations, codes and guidance. In this capacity, the QCOC serves as the primary source of quality, effectiveness, and efficiency information for the Quality and Compliance Oversight and Advisory Committee where HRPP program evaluation determinations and critical policy, infrastructure, and resource allocation decisions are made.

QCOC members include individuals from:

    • UW Office of Research Compliance

    • UW Health Sciences and Minimal Risk Research IRBs

    • UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research

    • Research & Sponsored Programs

    • William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital

    • UW Carbone Cancer Center

    • UW Office of Legal Affairs
    • UW Clinical Trials Institute