Neuroscience & Behavior student, Tyler Stetson ’21, follows HB220 establishing medical freedom in immunizations. Tyler interviews experts working for UNH’s Research Integrity Services, Julie Simpson, Melissa McGee and Susan Jalbert. We discuss the Institutional Review Board (IRB), risk assessment in human subject research, and ask these experts in risk assessment how they feel about the speed at which COVID-19 vaccines were developed. 

The bill

http://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/billText.aspx?sy=2021&id=202&txtFormat=pdf&v=current

CDC information on how vaccines work:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/how-they-work.html

Information on the Institutional Review Board at UNH:

https://www.unh.edu/research/institutional-review-board-protection-human-subjects-research-irb 

Nature article on COVID vaccine development:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2798-3