The Berman Institute takes an active role in the University's Research Ethics Consulting Service. This service is available at no charge to faculty, staff, and students of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. (Students are welcome to use the consulting service for dissertation research, but they must access the service along with a faculty advisor serving as a PI for their projects). The goal of the consulting service is to help raise awareness of, and to assist investigators in resolving issues of ethics in human subjects research. The service is intended to assist JHSPH investigators in East Baltimore and abroad when considering ethics challenges that arise in the design, conduct, or analysis of their research projects with human subjects. Faculty, staff, and students can contact the service to talk through challenges relating, for example, to appropriate interventions to provide in studies; confidentiality in recruitment; alternative means of informed consent; or how to respond when an unforeseen event occurs during data collection. The service is not designed to "pre-review" submission to the IRB nor to review or rewrite consent documents. Requests for consultations may be submitted through the JHSPH "Help Desk". If you are eligible for this service, log into the system using your JHSPH username and password and select "Research Ethics Consulting" under the header "Departmental Services". A summary of the consultation will be made part of the JHSPH IRB file for the study, if a file already exists. This service is staffed by Drs. Holly Taylor and Nancy Kass, both faculty of the Department of Health Policy and Management and the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Dr.Kass currently serves as the ethics member of JHSPH IRB #1. Questions and/or problems with accessing the site should be addressed to Information Systems.