The IRB has comprehensive guidance on enrolling non-English-speaking participants in research, both within and outside UW Health. Study teams should be aware that UW Health Interpreter Services provides interpreters free of charge for faculty within SMPH and/or recruiting UW Health patients within UW Health facilities. Interpreters may be in-person or via phone or video conferencing. Researchers outside of UW Health/SMPH may access lists of approved interpreter/translation vendors here.

Finally, Spanish and Vietnamese translated short form consent documents are posted in the UW IRB’s Toolkit Library. Studies approved by the IRB to use a short form consent process may use these translated documents without additional IRB approval; these short forms do not need to be uploaded in ARROW.

Studies approved by the IRB to use a short form process may also use translated short forms from WCG IRB and the University of Utah, which are available in a wide range of languages.