An AAHRPP representative will not participate in the review of an applicant, including, but not limited to, review of an Application for Accreditation/Reaccreditation, attendance at a site visit, or participation in any other matters related to an organization’s accreditation status, including discussions during AAHRPP meetings or in any vote regarding the applicant. This includes any of the following organizations for which an AAHRPP representative may have a conflict of interest:

• An organization with which the AAHRPP representative or an immediate family member* is currently, or within the last two years, has been connected as a student, employee, staff member, or agent.
  
• An organization with which the AAHRPP representative or an immediate family member*, currently have or have had within the last two years a cooperative or contractual arrangement with the organization.
• An organization with which the AAHRPP representative or an immediate family member*, serve or have acted as a consultant within the last two years for the organization.
• An organization with which the AAHRPP representative or an immediate family member*, have or have had within the last two years a financial, political, professional, or other interest that might conflict with the interests of AAHRPP or the organization.
• An organization that is located geographically within 150 miles of the address of the AAHRPP representative’s current (or former, if retired) employer.
• An independent IRB, when the AAHRPP Representative has any affiliation (including but not limited to, as employee, staff, agent, or volunteer) with another independent IRB.

 *An immediate family member is a spouse or life partner of an AAHRPP representative or a child, parent, or sibling of an AAHRPP representative when the AAHRPP representative has information about the family member's interest.

 An AAHRPP representative (except as described below**) may act as an external consultant on human research protection or accreditation matters as circumscribed above and within this paragraph. An AAHRPP representative who acts as an external consultant may not, under any circumstances, pursuant to these activities: hold themselves out as an agent of AAHRPP in regard to these activities, including reference to their AAHRPP affiliation in any marketing or public pronouncements or materials; or, use or share with any organization proprietary AAHRPP materials (including but not limited to, forms, templates, and evaluation tools) to which the AAHRPP representative has access by virtue of their affiliation with AAHRPP.

AAHRPP representatives are not considered to have a conflict of interest with an applicant organization if the only relationship between the AAHRPP representative and the organization is that the AAHRPP representative’s organization is providing IRB review services under a single IRB review arrangement for multi-site studies with the applicant organization.

**The definition of AAHRPP representative does not include AAHRPP staff, Board members, or members of the Council on Accreditation, all of whom are expressly and without exception prohibited from engaging in external consulting on or related to accreditation matters during the entirety of their tenure as AAHRPP staff, Board member, or member of the Council on Accreditation.