Who is covered by a Federalwide Assurance (FWA)?
Employees and agents of the institution holding an approved FWA are covered whenever they are involved in the conduct of research covered by the FWA. Employees and agents, including students, are individuals performing institutionally designated activities and acting on behalf of the institution or exercising institutional authority or responsibility. An institution holding an OHRP-approved FWA (hereafter referred to as the assured institution) may extend the applicability of its FWA to cover two types of collaborating individual investigators: collaborating independent investigators and collaborating institutional investigators. • A collaborating independent investigator is: • not otherwise an employee or agent of the assured institution; • conducting collaborative research activities outside the facilities of the assured institution; and • not acting as an employee of any institution with respect to his or her involvement in the research being conducted by the assured institution. •
