Running a vigorous research enterprise in the University requires an efficient administrative establishment for the management and coordination of facilities and resources for research. The University of Health and Allied Sciences Research Operations Office (UHAS-ROO) supports faculty, staff and students as they develop proposals, conduct research and develop plans for stimulating research growth and research career development.
The Research Operations Office (ROO) provides research administrative support including grants management, ethics, intellectual property and research uptake. We provide support and advice on funding opportunities, funders’ terms and conditions, costing, submissions, contracting, financial reporting and audits. We assist faculty, staff and students in the review, submission, negotiation and acceptance of grants, contracts and cooperative agreements for research and training. The ROO also helps sponsors identify UHAS investigators for participation in their research.
We have experts in proposal development, grants administration and research compliance. ROO is equipped to promote research and facilitate success in research endeavours at UHAS
Our Vision is a Health Research-Intensive University stimulated by effective and efficient systems for the conduct and administration of research.
Our Mission is to stimulate research in the University, provide advice and support to faculty, staff and students in their pursuit of external funding for research and streamline grants applications, awards management and implementation processes in the University.
Strategic Goals/Objectives
To develop UHAS’s research-related policies and guidelines
To promote, facilitate and co-ordinate research activities in the University
To provide pre- and post- award administrative services for research projects
To help to ensure the overall effective coordination of the research administration service, system, policies and processes. These include providing advice on funding opportunities, funder’s terms and conditions, costing, submissions, contracting and financial reporting
To review all grant and contract applications from UHAS for compliance with sponsor and University policies
To establish an operational system for ethical clearance, as well as their monitoring and evaluation
To facilitate the registration, protection, patenting and commercialisation of intellectual property
Contact Email: [email protected].
The University of Health and Allied Sciences’ Research Ethics Committee (UHAS-REC) was established to review and approve all research planned to be conducted in UHAS facilities and/or involves staff and students of the University. This mandate enjoins the UHAS-REC to provide independent, competent and timely ethical review of research protocols submitted to the Committee with the objective of assuring the safety, dignity, welfare and protection of research participants, and the scientific integrity of research associated with UHAS.
The primary goal of the REC is to protect the rights and welfare of human participants in research studies. The REC reviews human participants’ research proposals to ensure that:
The rights and welfare of human participants used in research studies are protected.
Risks have been considered and minimized.
The potential for benefit has been identified and maximized.
All human participants only volunteer to participate in research after being provided with legally effective informed consent.
Research is conducted in an ethical manner and in compliance with established standards.
Individuals seeking to conduct such research may not solicit participant participation or begin data collection until they have obtained ethical clearance from REC.
The REC is authorized to review, approve, require modifications, or disapprove research activities conducted by researchers using human participants.
The REC will evaluate the science and ethics of the proposed study
Thus the REC in its operations follows the four key principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmalficence and justice.
Composition of the REC
The UHAS-REC is an independent and competent multidisciplinary body made up of persons with relevant and diverse scientific expertise, balanced age gender distribution, who have qualifications and experience to review and evaluate scientific and health ethics of research protocols. The 15-member REC is composed of the following:
7 Scientists/Academics
8 Non-Scientists comprising; A lawyer, Journalist, Religious Body Representing the larger Community, Sociologist, Educationist, Traditional leader, Public Health Expert and a Medical Doctor
The Officers of REC comprise the Chair, Vice Chair and the Administrator.
The REC follows a structured Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) that clearly outlines terms of reference, membership, meeting procedures and criteria for protocol reviews among others. The REC has a Secretariat at the Research Operations Office, Institute of Health Research (IHR) which is manned by the Administrator.
The UHAS-REC is registered with the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) with IRB number IRB00010993 and also has Federal wide Assurance (FWA) with FWA number FWA00025461.
Protocol Submission guidelines, deadlines, Application Forms and Charges