121207_NORC FullBoardApproval_2013-02-20

Institutional Review Board Certification

Full Board Approval

Principal Investigator / Project Director: Elizabeth Hair
Department: Public Health Research
IRB Protocol Number: 12.12.07
Project Number: 7424
Protocol Title: Healthy Weight in Lesbian and Bisexual Women: Striving for a Healthy
Community, Out, Proud, and Healthy Fitness Project

Expiration Date*: 2/20/2014

This certifies that the research protocol and consent documents described above have been
approved by the NORC Institutional Review Board (IRB00000967), under its Federal
Assurance #FWA00000142, which is valid through August 16, 2013.
Any amendments or other changes to this protocol must be submitted for review by the
NORC IRB, and all adverse events must be reported to the NORC IRB.
The IRB has approved your research for a period of one year. To avoid a lapse in IRB
approval, please submit your continuing review materials to the IRB at least 2 weeks prior
to the expiration date listed above. Although the IRB will provide reminders to you about
renewing your study’s approval as you near the expiration date, it is the responsibility of the
principal investigator and project director to ensure that IRB approval does not lapse and
that continuing review materials are submitted before a study’s approval expires.

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Karen H. Grigorian, IRB Chair

55 East Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603

2.20.2013
Date

Phone: 773-256-6000

www.norc.uchicago.edu