AEHRP Innovation award criteria

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The Award for Innovation will be given each year to the entry, if any, that judges consider most worthy of the name. Other entries may receive an Award of Excellence or Certificate of Merit based on judges' assessments. Criteria for evaluating applications for the award are as follows.

Report of work completed in the past 5 years that demonstrates:

Innovation in or novel approach to the protection of human research subjects, including, for example, one that focused attention on the importance of protecting, shaped debate about the protection of, or advanced knowledge regarding how to protect human subjects of research
Significant contribution, for example, to delineating the principles of, identifying the scope and/or criteria for, recognizing gaps in, providing potential solutions for, implementing program for and/or to improve, distinguishing and/or designing programs to determine best practices regarding, the protection of human subjects of research
Material impact, for example, on public or professional opinion and/or debate, government regulations and/or initiatives, research institution policies and/or procedures (including continuous quality improvement programs), and/or human research protection realized in practice.

Note: The report may have been written by the nominee, a journalist reporting the nominee's work, or the nominee with a professional writer. A published research report (or one in press) that advances thinking about and/or knowledge regarding the protection of human subjects of research is eligible for the Award.

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