Please allow sufficient lead time for review of ethics applications and requests for change to protocol.
Please contact the Research Ethics and Compliance Officer, Brenda Gagné, if you have any questions or concerns.
Office: Evaristus 238
Email: ethics@msvu.ca or brenda.gagne@msvu.ca
Telephone: 902-457-6350
NOTE: All applications must be submitted electronically to ethics@msvu.ca . Please do not use special characters in the file name(s).
Please only use 2 attachments for your protocol submission: 1. the application/report and 2. the appendices.
REB.FORM.001 – Standard REB Application (Updated October 2025)
REB.FORM.002 – Modification Request (Updated July 2024)
REB.FORM.003 – Annual Report and Request for Renewal (Updated July 2024)
REB.FORM.004 – Final Report (Updated July 2024)
REB.FORM.005 – Secondary Use of Data (Updated October 2025)
REB.FORM.006 – Student Sub-study with Faculty Researcher (Updated October 2025)
REB.FORM.007 – Adverse Event Report (Updated July 2024)
REB.FORM.008 – Unanticipated Research Event (Updated July 2024)
REB.FORM.009 – Scholarly Review (Updated July 2024)
REB.FORM.010 – Research Cleared at another Canadian REB (Updated October 2025)
REB.FORM.011 – Release of Funds (Updated February 2025)
REB.FORM.013 – Breach Allegation – Responsible Conduct of Research – Contact ethics@msvu.ca (Updated July 2024)
REB.FORM.014 – Change to Study Personnel (Updated July 2024)
REB.FORM.015 – Privacy Breach (Updated July 2024)
REB.FORM.016 – REB Exemption Request (Updated October 2025)
REB.FORM.017 – Human Biological Material Addendum (Updated July 2024)
REB.FORM.018 – Supplementary Research Form COVID – currently INACTIVE (Updated July 2024)
REB.FORM.019 – COVID Risk Assessment for Research – currently INACTIVE (Updated July 2024)
REB.FORM.020 – Course-Based Research (Updated October 2025)
REB.FORM.021 – Amendment to Principal Investigator (Updated July 2024)
REB.FORM.022 – Low Risk Research (Surveys only) Application (also see REB.INFO.407 to confirm eligibility)