IRB approval

Public Health Service
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC)

Memorandum
Date
d
From

April 18, 2020

Subject

HRPO Exemption Determination for Protocol #7275, “Message testing on radiation
emergencies and cancer risk"

To

M Carol Mccurley
NCEH/DEHSP

Micah Bass
Deputy Director, Office of Scientific Integrity

On behalf of the CDC Human Research Protection Office (HRPO), I have reviewed the
request to exempt protocol #7275, “Message testing on radiation emergencies and cancer
risk" and find that this research activity is exempt under 45 CFR 46.104(d)(2i). You are
required to close out exempt protocols as soon as CDC staff are no longer engaged in the
research activity. CDC HRPO may follow up with you periodically to check the status of
CDC’s engagement in this research activity.
Please be aware that changes to this protocol may not be implemented until they are
reviewed by HRPO and determined to be consistent with the exemption categories.
Please also be advised that investigators remain responsible for the ethical conduct of this
study and for ensuring appropriate human research protections even for research that is
exempt from the regulations governing the protection of human subjects in research. Please
inform CDC HRPO of any incidents that are reported to other institutions.
If you have questions, please contact your Associate Director for Science, your National
Center Human Subjects Contact, or HRPO at [email protected], or by telephone at 404-6394127.

Signed,

Micah Bass