Human Effects Organizations and Processes

The Human Effects Center of Excellence was founded to provided assistance and advice to program managers concerning likely effects of non-lethal technologies and the risks associated with those effects. The approach used by the Human Effects Center of Excellence promotes a common non-lethal weapons human effects language to ensure consistent use of terminology among the Department of Defense non-lethal weapons community. The center also provides recommendations on which laboratories or field activities can collect scientifically derived-information when such is not already available.

The Human Effects Review Board consists of representatives from the Services' Surgeon General offices and the office of the Medical Officer of the Marine Corps. The Human Effects Review Board provides program managers and milestone decision authorities with an independent measure of risk and recommends actions that can further reduce risks.

The Human Effects Advisory Panel is an independent panel of non-governmental personnel recognized as experts in their fields and selected from academia, the medical community, and law enforcement. The Human Effects Advisory Panel is intended to review and provide input on health effect risks to the program manager of non-lethal programs prior to production decision. The Human Effects Advisory Panel also provides reviews of human effects research plans.