Approval by an Institutional Ethics Committee is required for any research on human subjects. Please note that “research” in this context includes any trial experiment, clinical or community-based intervention, collection of blood samples or other biological materials, questionnaire or survey, review of case notes or access to medical records. If the agency or institution which will be responsible for administeringthe grant does not itself have an Ethics Committee set up accordingto NHMRC guidelines, it should arrange for research proposals to be reviewed by a local institution which does have such a committee.