Editorial Charter & Transparency

About NREBLR Clinical Research Ethics Observatory

An independent, non-commercial reference repository documenting international biomedical research ethics, REC/IRB governance, and clinical trial compliance.

Historical Domain Archival Disclosure

The domain nreblr.net previously served as the digital portal for the National Research Ethics Board of Liberia (NREB-LR). Following the expiration of the prior registration, this resource was established to preserve continuity for academic, regulatory, and public-health citations—including permanent links from NIH NIAID ClinRegs and the Global Health Security Index.

Non-Governmental Status: This site is an independent informational and educational repository. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operating on behalf of the Government of Liberia, the Ministry of Health of Liberia, or any statutory regulatory authority. Do not submit confidential patient records, proprietary clinical trial dossiers, or official regulatory filings through this website.

Editorial Methodology

All governance tables, checklists, and regulatory summaries on this site are synthesized from primary public instruments: ICH-GCP E6(R2) and E6(R3), ICH E17, the WMA Declaration of Helsinki (2024), CIOMS International Ethical Guidelines (2016), and publicly indexed national ethics frameworks. Each analytical table and interactive pathway checklist undergoes structured cross-checking against primary statutory texts so clinical coordinators, institutional review board administrators, and sponsors receive verifiable baseline criteria rather than generic commentary.

Data Privacy & Zero-Telemetry Commitment: Interactive compliance checklists on this observatory execute entirely inside the visitor's local browser session. No protocol drafts, study identifiers, or clinical assessment selections are transmitted to external servers, and no third-party advertising tags or cross-site tag managers are loaded.

Contact & Archival Corrections

For academic citation inquiries, broken archival references, or regulatory standard updates, contact the editorial desk at [email protected]. Corrections referencing primary statutory instruments, World Health Organization guidance, or ICH Efficacy Guidelines are reviewed within five business days and documented in the page revision history.

Archival Citation Registry & Scope Boundaries

To prevent broken scholarly links and preserve transparency for clinical researchers, the registry below maps historical NREB-LR references to their active documentation pages on this observatory.