Maybe. All research conducted at Harvard must comply with Harvard policies, even if the Data Use Agreement calls for lesser levels of protection. A data-use agreement may require additional protections, in which case the researcher must also meet the requirements in the data-use agreement. 

Please contact pbrown@harvard.edu or security@fas.harvard.edu for an analysis of your needs, so that we can make necessary arrangements.

A web survey must be approved by the Committee on the Use of Human Subjects. Also please check with the IRB. For details and forms, please visit http://cuhs.harvard.edu

With the help of the HUIT Research Computing group,the Economics Department has provided a system designed to satisfy the requirements for using security level 3 data. As required by the Harvard Internal Review Board (IRB), the Economics Department has also established a policy defining what categories of users will have access to this system. These two categories are: 1) a limited, identified group of designated HUIT system administrators , and 2) researchers who have a direct Harvard affiliation and are under the advice and supervision, for research purposes, of Harvard faculty and have a demonstrated need to use CI or HRCI. All exceptions to this policy will have to be approved by the IRB. If you would like to use this system, please contact Peter Brown at pbrown@harvard.edu.

For the full and official description of Harvard's policy research computing:
http://www.security.harvard.edu/research-data-security-policy

Compliance is ultimately the responsibility of the Principle Investigator.

Only offices that have been specifically authorized by Harvard may do so. Economics Department researchers should contact the Office for Sponsored Programs to find out how to get an authorized signature.