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Testimony Before the HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections Regarding the July 2017 HHS Office of Inspector General Report on OHRP’s Compliance Activities

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In testimony before the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections, Public Citizen stated that the July 2017 HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) report assessing the Office for Human Research Protections’ (OHRP’s) compliance activities revealed that OHRP’s enforcement of regulations for the protection of human subjects has literally become moribund. The OIG report demonstrated that OHRP is abusing its discretion when deciding whether to initiate formal for-cause compliance evaluations of substantive written allegations.

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