Paola Pinto Vidal

In an effort to reduce bureaucratic redundancy and improve quality and consistency of ethical review, REBC has developed and launched harmonized models of review that took into consideration administrators working “on the ground” at REB offices in BC’s health authorities and research universities. The creation of the BCEHI’s harmonized models and subsequent creation of an online ethics platform for multi-jurisdictional review, incorporates feminist and de-centralized strategies of collective governance with an emphasis on relationship-building through collaboration, mutual trust and reciprocity and institutional autonomy. REB administrators voluntarily collaborated to design a model that created a space for dialogue outside the predominantly biomedical context of research ethics in Canada.