Centralized processes help ensure faster start-up times and less administrative burdens. Our centralized, single-review REB platform – the REB Exchange – allows for one ethics application to cover most sites across the province. REB Exchange reduces study costs and increases efficiency by helping avoid duplication during the submission process, ensuring high quality reviews, and shortening study start-up times. It also allows for more efficient methods of reporting serious adverse events and reduces the need to engage multiple local research ethics boards. 

Alberta has three Human Research Ethics boards that collaborate to oversee trials involving human participants. These are the University of Alberta Health Research Ethics Board (HREB)  the University of Calgary Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board (CHREB), and the Health Research Ethics Board of Alberta (HREBA)