Your organization must be accredited in order to access the OAMS at this time. That will change in the future, but as of today, access is only provided to organizations that have achieved full accreditation. Please check back on the OAMS resource webpage for updates and additional information about accessing the OAMS.  

For accredited organizations with an existing account, you can access the OAMS here: https://oams.aahrpp.org/  

This feature is not available at this time. In May 2025, AAHRPP created accounts for all Application Contacts and Organizational Officials for accredited organizations. If you are not an Application Contact or Organizational Official but have a role at an accredited organization, please contact your Application Contact or Organizational Official directly to request that they add you as a user so that you can access AAHRPP’s OAMS. Contact AAHRPP if you do not know who the Application Contact is for your organization.

Application Contacts, Alternate Application Contacts, and Organizational Officials can invite users at your organization to set up an account and edit/view your organizational information. For example, if you are an Application Contact, you can invite users into the roles for Alternate Application Contact, Billing Contact, Organizational Official, and Read Only User. Select the “Invite New Contact” link on the contact card, and you can enter the institutional email address of any individuals at your human research protection program who require access to the AAHRPP OAMS. 

Yes! There are two guidance documents for using the OAMS. One is instructions for Application Contacts, Alternate Application Contacts, and Organizational Officials (i.e., individuals with editing privileges) found on our OAMS resource webpage: OAMS instructions for Application Contacts, Alternate Application Contacts, and Organizational Officials. The second is for Billing Contacts and Read Only Users (i.e., individuals with read-only access) found here: OAMS instructions for Read-Only Users and Billing Contacts.

If you receive an invitation via email to log in to the OAMS, click on the link in the email to log in. The system will ask for your first name and last name and to set a password. The password must meet the following criteria:

1. Is between 8 – 16 characters (not shorter or longer)
2. Does not contain spaces; and
3. Does not match a previous password.

If you are unable to set a password, please contact [email protected] with any questions.

Click on https://oams.aahrpp.org/ and select the option Forgot your password? beneath the email address and password fields on the login screen. You will receive an email to the primary email address associated with your account that will enable you to reset your password. The OAMS will ask for a new password that:

1. Is between 8 – 16 characters (not shorter or longer);
2. Does not contain spaces; and
3. Does not match a previous password.

At this time, AAHRPP only allows one person to be listed as the Application Contact, Billing Contact, and Organizational Official at your organization. However, you can add unlimited Alternate Application Contacts and Read Only Users.

Accredited organizations can notify AAHRPP of a change in Application Contact or Organizational Official by updating the Online Accreditation Management System (OAMS) at any time. Please review the FAQs regarding required reporting found here for additional details: https://www.aahrpp.org/resources/for-accreditation/faq/considering-accreditation-and-getting-started#required-reporting-and-maintaining-accreditation

Only Application Contacts, Alternate Application Contacts, and Organizational Officials can change an organization’s legal name or preferred name. If you are assigned to one of these roles in the OAMS, please find “Account Profile” in the grey menu on the left side of the screen. Then click, “Organization Profile.” Once you have updated your organization’s legal or preferred name, click save at the bottom of the screen. 

AAHRPP displays every organization that is accredited on the AAHRPP website using the specified preferred name of your organization. If no preferred name is indicated in the OAMS, the legal name of your organization is what appears on the AAHRPP website. If you wish to have a different or modified name (i.e., preferred name) displayed on AAHRPP’s website or if you wish to update the legal name or preferred name due to a recent change, you can now do this in the OAMS. Only Application Contacts, Alternate Application Contacts, and Organizational Officials can change an organization’s legal name or preferred name. If you are assigned as one of these roles in the OAMS, please find “Account Profile” in the grey menu on the left side of the screen. Then click, “Organization Profile.” Once you have updated your organization’s preferred or legal name, click save at the bottom of the screen. Please note that AAHRPP periodically updates the website based upon changes in the OAMS. Thus, the change is not instantaneous, but you can expect the AAHRPP website to reflect the preferred name in short order. 

Only Read Only Users can be deleted from your organization’s contacts. Users designated as Read Only Users can only be deleted by Application Contacts, Alternate Application Contacts, and Organizational Officials at your organization in the OAMS. For example, if you are an Application Contact at an accredited hospital, and your Organizational Official has left your hospital, you can invite your new Organizational Official to log in by using the “Invite New Contact” feature on the contact card of the Organizational Official. You can also use the “Reassign” drop-down menu feature to reassign this role to an existing user. Regardless which option you use in this example, either action will automatically move your existing Organizational Official to another role in the OAMS. At this point, you will need to assign this individual to the Read Only User role. Once this individual is in the Read Only User role, you can delete this user in the OAMS by clicking “Delete User” on the contact card. 

AAHRPP has a dedicated help desk for all OAMS issues. Having difficulty after reviewing our guidance and these FAQs? Please contact us at [email protected]  

The OAMS does not permit autofill. Typically, the information inserted by autofill is highlighted blue. In order to save the information pre-populated by autofill, click into the field that was auto filled, delete a single character, and re-enter that character. This should erase the highlighting and allow you to save. Please note that you will have to do this for each field that has been populated by autofill. Separately, you can turn off autofill in your browser settings altogether and your information will not populate in these fields. 

AAHRPP requires that your primary email address be from your institutional email domain (e.g., [email protected]). Users cannot use a Gmail or Yahoo (or other personal email address) for their primary email address. You may add up to three email addresses, but your primary email address should be an email address provided by your accredited organization.