Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 310 - Oklahoma State Department of Health
Chapter 2 - Procedures of the State Department of Health
Subchapter 31 - Human Subjects Protection
Section 310:2-31-1 - General purpose

The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) Institutional Review Board (IRB) has been established to comply with federal regulations to protect the rights and welfare of human research participants in accordance with Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 46 ( 45 C.F.R. Part 46 ). The OSDH IRB has the responsibility to assure that the risks of proposed research are justified by the potential benefits to the participants and to society, and that risks are minimized to the extent possible consistent with sound research design. The OSDH IRB must assure that the risks of research do not fall disproportionately on one group while the potential benefits accrue to another.