The Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI Program) is dedicated to serving the training needs of colleges and universities, healthcare institutions, technology and research organizations, and governmental agencies, as they foster integrity and professional advancement of their learners.
These courses explore key topics related to research security and international engagement.
The IRB Review of Exempt Research course provides an overview of the exempt categories of research per 45 CFR 46.104 and discusses considerations for making an exempt determination per regulatory criteria.
This course equips faculty, staff, and administrators with the fundamentals and tools to measure outcomes, improve learning, and effectiveness.
This course provides essential practices for those working with high-risk biological materials, clarifying biosafety vs. biosecurity and enabling practical biosecurity planning to prevent theft, misuse, or intentional release.
Describes the regulatory framework and quality programs for HCT/Ps
This course equips community partners with the knowledge and skills to ethically and effectively engage in research.
Provides learners with an examination of developments in ICH Good Clinical Practice.
This course provides graduate students with practical guidance, strategies, and resources to confidently navigate each stage of the dissertation process from proposal to defense.
Provides an overview of EC regulations along with information specifically tailored to certain roles, responsibilities, and act...
This course provides training on working with birds in research settings.
Hands-on instruction on day-to-day practices of clinical research coordinators (CRCs).
The RCR Casebook course is a collection of real-world ethical dilemmas designed to promote discussion, critical thinking, and skill-building in RCR.
Introduces you to key information about, and tools to use, the 3Rs of animal research.
Prepares you to apply digital health ethics in healthcare and research.
Covers the principles, governance approaches, practices, and tools for responsible artificial intelligence (AI) development and use.
Explores how behavioral science can enhance compliance programs.
This course provides foundational training on conflicts of interest for healthcare professionals.
Provides learners with an understanding of environmental regulations affecting the biotech industry.
Explores how behavioral science can enhance compliance programs.
Explores the benefits and the considerations of working with consultants on research misconduct investigations.
Provides an introduction to the EU AI Act, including risk-based approaches, compliance obligations, enforcement, interplays with other European digital policy, and perspectives
Explains how the Common Rule applies to secondary research with data and biospecimens.
Provide your organization's learners with access to currently available and future webinar recordings.
Provides a foundational overview of quantitative methods, equipping learners with the essential tools to analyze and interpret numerical data for research and decision-making.
Explores techniques and transferable skills to transition between research administration positions.
Covers different categories of replacements, considerations for various personnel, and references for further learning.
An introduction to risk management and crisis response within study abroad programs.
Provides an overview of conflict, types of conflict, conflict styles, communication styles, and intervention strategies.
N2 is a not-for-profit alliance of Canadian research networks and organizations working to enhance national clinical research capability and capacity.
BIC Study Foundation is a resource for those who want to take CITI Program courses in Korean. They are a certified training provider by the Korean FDA/MAFRA for HRPP and ACU Programs.
A complete research compliance suite that supports IRB, IACUC Conflict of interest, Bio Safety Export Control, and more.
HRP Consulting provides customized services for your research program, including temporary staffing, IRB/IACUC assistance, accreditation support, program evaluations, training/education and more.
CTrials helps grow sponsored research programs by taking on the many administrative challenges inherent in managing clinical trials.
Informed Consent Builder is a cloud-based platform that streamlines the process of managing and generating informed consent forms.
Protocol Builder is an online protocol writing and collaboration platform that also speed up your pre-review turnaround times.
CITI Program courses are approved for CME credits through the Albert Einstein Montefiore Continuing Professional Development Center (CPDC). Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Montefiore Medical Center (Einstein) is accredited by the Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education to provide continuing education activities for healthcare professionals. Einstein is accredited to offer continuing education credit for the following professions: medicine, nursing, psychology, pharmacy, dentistry, optometry, social work, nutritional science, and athletic training.
CITI Program is also accredited by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and offers IACET CEUs for its learning events that comply with the ANSI/IACET Continuing Education and Training Standard. IACET is recognized internationally as a standard development organization and accrediting body that promotes quality of continuing education and training.
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Our courses are built by over 350 highly qualified experts and rigorously peer reviewed to incorporate various perspectives and ensure accuracy, completeness, and overall quality.
Diana Riviera, a first-generation Chicana motherscholar, is an award-winning faculty member at Capella University’s School of Psychology. She teaches graduate students, chairs dissertations, and serves as senior editor at The Qualitative Report. Her research focuses on single mothers, U.S./Mexico borderlands, and identity.
Ms. Gates obtained her JD from Seattle University School of Law. She served as Vice President at Western IRB and Director of IRB at UC Davis and the University of Miami. She has also worked for the human subject protection programs at Houston Methodist Medical Center and the George Washington University.
Joanna is a healthcare regulatory and transactional attorney. She advises Yale Medicine, the university’s faculty practice plan, and Yale Health, a health maintenance organization for the university’s faculty, students, and staff. Joanna earned her BA from Skidmore College, cum laude, and her JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Anna Suojanen serves as the Associate Research Compliance Administrator in the Office of the Vice Provost for Research at Harvard University. In this role, Anna conducts University-level review of research projects that may pose certain management challenges or reputational risks.
Graduate Student
The modules were very thorough, easy to follow, and understand.
Doctoral Research, Graduate Student
I like that the course is self-paced; you can pause and pick up where you left off.
Clinical Research Assistant
Courses are great and very informative.
Postdoctoral Associate
I thought that the videos dramatizing various possible scenarios added a great deal to the written material. I also appreciated the inclusion of references to relevant philosophical and historical scholarship on research and methodological ethics.
New Course – Regulation of Cell Therapy Products
This course provides essential training for those working with cellular and tissue-based products in the cell, gene therapy, and biologics industry.
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What CITI Program is Reading – November 6, 2025
“What CITI Program is Reading” is our biweekly blog series which highlights news articles curated by our staff and relevant to research, higher education, healthcare,...
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Cheminformatics Resources of U.S. Governmental Organizations 2025 Workshop
The FDA is hosting the Cheminformatics Resources of U.S. Governmental Organizations 2025 Workshop on November 5–7, 2025.
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