RACC Certified Research Administrator (CRA) Practice Exam

Belmont Report established core ethical principles for human subjects research. It arose to address past abuses and now underpins how research involving people is designed, reviewed, and conducted. The report highlights three guiding principles: respect for persons (honoring autonomy and protecting those with diminished autonomy, mainly through informed consent), beneficence (maximizing benefits while minimizing risks to participants), and justice (ensuring fair selection of subjects and equitable distribution of research burdens and benefits). These principles shape how institutional review boards evaluate studies, consent processes, risk–benefit analyses, and who is included in research. In practical terms, it isn’t about grant scoring, lab safety rules, or data storage protocols, but about the ethical framework that protects people in research.