University of Houston-Victoria

Research and Sponsored Programs

Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects

The Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS) is charged with reviewing all proposals that involve using human subjects to provide data for faculty or student research involving external funding or scholarly presentations or publications.  Each proposal must be submitted to the CPHS using the Human Subjects Application.  The application must be completed online and then printed, signed, scanned, and submitted electronically to Angela Hartmann.  Normally, faculty should expect a two week turn-around following the application submission.

Even if you think your project is exempt from CPHS review, only someone from the committee is empowered to make that decision.  Failure to submit required research projects to the CPHS for review is a violation of UH system policy and federal regulations.

UHV Protection of Human Subjects Faculty Manual
UH Human Subjects Handbook, Policies and Procedures
Exempt Categories, Expedited Categories, Data Retention, Informed Consent, and Training Information
CITI Human Subjects Research Educational Program

The Committee for Human Subjects Members

Dr. Robert Hawkins, Jr., Chair
Associate Professor
School of Arts and Science
E-mail Dr. Hawkins
361.570.4206

Dr. T.T."Rajan" Selvarajan
Associate Professor
School of Business Administration
E-mail Dr. Rajan
281.275.3381

Dr. Linda Autry
Assistant Professor
School of Education and Human Development
Email Dr. Autry
361.570.4334

Two external members
TBA
TBA

Ex offcio
Assistant Vice President for Research or designee