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|Articles|March 20, 2014

AAHRPP Accredits NIH and first Middle Eastern Organization

AAHRPP announced it has accredited four more organizations

The Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs (AAHRPP) announced it has accredited four more organizations—including the National Institutes of Health, the first hospital in the Middle East, a second in Taiwan, and a world renowned children’s research hospital. AAHRPP’s accreditation and standards are developed to help protect research participants.

The newly accredited organizations are:

  • King Fahad Specialist Hospital-Dammam, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
  • National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
  • St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tenn.
  • Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Read the full release here.


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