A document filed with the HHS Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) formalizing the research institution's commitment to protect human subjects in its federally supported research. The OHRP has developed a new, simplified process for obtaining a Federal wide Assurance (FWA) of Protection for Human Subjects, applicable to all federal agencies. In the future, only the FWA will be accepted, although the deadline when it will replace other more limited assurances (e.g., the special project assurance for a specific research project) has been indefinitely extended.
