Members of Human Research Accreditation Consortium

The new Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs is a consortium of clinicians, administrators, researchers, and patient advocates offering voluntary accreditation to programs that conduct clinical research with human participants.

These are the seven founding member organizations of AAHRPP:

• Association of American Medical Colleges

• Association of American Universities

• Consortium of Social Science Associations

• Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

• National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges

• National Health Council

• Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research

The association will be headquartered in Rockville, Md., and expects to be operational by January 2002.