The IRB learning circle’s objective was to bring together Human Centered Design into Adolescents and Youth Sexual Reproductive Health researchers, practitioners and IRB staff to share their experiences, challenges, solutions and to generate insights on best practices when navigating through the IRB process for ethical approval of HCD research and research protocols.

The IRB Process insights from the learning circle indicate that the IRB process mainly involves the pre-review screening of research protocols by IRB analysts to ensure the completeness and compliance of the ethical guidelines and standards of each research protocol submitted. Researchers must ensure that the research protocols submitted meet minimum submission requirements before they undergo the pre-review screening process. When the research protocols are submitted, an IRB analyst often conducts an initial pre-review screening process, to check for completeness and compliance of each submission.