“Because it was hard…”: some lessons eveloping a joint IRB between Moi University (Kenya) and Indiana University (USA)

Abstract

A proposed committee involving Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya, and Indiana University (IU) School of Medicine was cited by Barachi and colleagues as an example of “joint review/combined review” without comment. While some of this is described elsewhere (Meslin, Were, and Ayuku 2013), we suspect it may not have been not available to those authors; therefore, in this commentary we offer further explanation of our experience, which may be instructive for those contemplating collaborative ethics review and offer some further lessons we have learned.