Andrews Supports Adventist Human-Subject Research

The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (GC) is increasingly integrating human-subject research into its programming and strategic planning. Many major initiatives and decisions are now made based on research data to ensure the church meets the needs of this exponentially increasing religious organization more effectively and efficiently.

The pressing need to inform church decision-making with research data led Adventist researchers to meet for a conference for the first time at Andrews University in the United States in 2012. The following year, the Adventist Human-Subject Research Association (AHSRA) was created under the vision of David Trim, GC director of Archives, Statistics, and Research (ASTR). He worked with Monte Sahlin, Roger L. Dudley, and Bailey Gillespie, three renowned Adventist expert researchers, to establish ASHRA.

AHSRA is a body of Adventist researchers around the world committed to supporting the Adventist Church by bringing together social research resources, empowering one another with new research skills and supporting the mission of the church directly with cutting-edge research studies that are essential in addressing contemporary challenges. AHSRA’s main headquarters is at Andrews University, with Petr Cincala as the president. However, AHSRA, now known by some as AHSRA International, is going global.

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