Institutional Ethics Committee of Human Samples and Participants

Import Documents: 

• Guidelines
• Ethical Mandate
• IECHSP NEHU FORM
• NEHU Ethical Instructions
• NEHU-Ethical-PIS & consent form

The NEHU Institutional Ethics Committee of Human Samples and Participants (IECHSP) is the official ethics committee of North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU).

Its primary role is to safeguard the rights, safety, and well-being of all human participants involved in research conducted at the university. It ensures that all research proposals involving human participants or biological samples are ethically reviewed and cleared before the research begins, in accordance with the ICMR National Ethical Guidelines (2017).

The Committee is responsible for:

• Conducting objective and competent ethical review of research proposals.
• Ensuring scientific soundness (through Scientific Review Committee).
• Protecting participants through principles such as informed consent, voluntariness, non-exploitation, privacy, risk minimization, and justice.
• Providing guidance to researchers on ethical best practices.

All departments at NEHU conducting human-related research must obtain approval from this Committee.