Conflict of Commitment and Interest Policies & Regulations
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| Policy | Who does this policy apply to? | |
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| Policy on Outside Activities and Conflicts of Commitment and Interest | 2024 COCI policy web page | Covered Individuals: includes academic professionals, academic hourlies, hourly faculty, postdoctoral associates, and the faculty ranks for professor, associate professor, assistant professor (and all of the foregoing whose appointments contain such terms as “specialized”, "research", "adjunct", “visiting", “teaching”, "clinical", or “emeritus”), instructors, and lecturers. This definition includes retired individuals with active appointments, as well as individuals with 0% unpaid appointments consistent with those named above who have University Responsibilities involving University research or who have access to University laboratories or equipment for the purpose of research. Individuals with 0% unpaid appointments that have University Responsibilities involving only didactic teaching or non-research appointments may be exempted on a year-by-year basis by the Unit Executive Officer (“UEO”) from this Policy’s disclosure requirements. |
| 2024 COCI policy PDF | ||
| Financial Conflicts of Interest in Research | 2024 FCOIR policy web page | Investigators – anyone, regardless of title or position, who is responsible for the design, conduct or reporting – on sponsored research awards. This includes principal investigators, co-principal investigators, senior/key personnel and could include graduate students, civil service staff, and consultants (not employed by the University of Illinois). |
| 2024 FCOIR policy PDF | ||
| Organizational Conflicts of Interest | 2024 OCOI policy web page | Key Organizational Leaders – administrators at the dean level and above |
| 2024 OCOI policy PDF |
University of Illinois Documents Related to COCI Policy Heading link
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University of Illinois Documents Related to COCI Policy
- Endorsement of Commercial Services or Products by UIC Employees
- University Code of Conduct
- State Officials and Employees Ethics Act
- Business and Financial Policies and Procedures, Section 7.2 Purchase of Goods and Services
- 313 Employment of Relatives (Nepotism)
- Excerpts from State Law & University Procedures
- Conflict of interest policy for Civil Service staff. See Rule 16.01
- Office for the Protection of Research Subjects Policy on Investigator Conflict of Interest Disclosure for Human Subjects Research (October 2016)
- GUIDELINES FOR MANAGEMENT OF POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST WITH HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY
- Graduate College Policy on Conflicts of Interest in the Admissions Process
- Graduate College Student Committee Conflict of Interest Statement
- OBFS Policy: Employee Donations for Programs Under the Perceived Control of the Employee
- OTM Handbook for Inventors and Innovators
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Federal Regulations and Resources
- Department of Health and Human Services 42 CFR Part 50 and 45 CRF Part 94: Responsibility of Applicants for Promoting Objectivity in Research for which Public Health Services Funding is Sought and Responsible Prospective Contractors (August 2011) – 2011 FCOI Regulation
- NIH Policy Clarification on Sponsored or Reimbursed Travel (10/18/2012)
- NIH Office of Extramural Research. Charting a Renewed Course for Managing Financial Conflicts of Interest. (August 2011)
- The Physician Payments Sunshine provision, formally called the Transparency Reports and Reporting of Physician Ownership or Investment Interests, was enacted as §6002 of the Patient
- Protection and Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. No. 11-148), the federal health-care reform legislation (March 2010)
- OHRP/HHS Draft “Financial Relationships and Interests in Research Involving Human Subjects: Guidance for Human Subject Protection”(April 2003)
- “Financial Conflicts of Interest and Research Objectivity: Issues for Investigators and Institutional Review Boards”, NIH Guide. (June 5, 2000)
- Frequently asked questions Concerning the Department of Health and Human Services Objectivity in Research Regulations and the National Science Foundation Investigator Financial Disclosure Policy. (July 3,1996)
- “Objectivity in Research”, NIH Guide (PHS, July 14,1995)
- FDA “Guidance: Financial Disclosure by Clinical Investigators” (March 20, 2001)
- NSF “Chapter IV – Grantee Standards” Conflict of Interest Policies (January 25, 2016)
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Related Documents
- American Society of Clinical Oncology: Revised Conflict of Interest Policy (April 2003)
- American Society of Clinical Oncology: Background for Update of Conflict of Interest Policy (April 2003)
- AAMC “Policy and Guidelines for the Oversight of Individual Financial Interests in Human Subjects Research” (December, 2001)
- GAO “Biomedical Research: HHS Direction Needed to Address Financial Conflicts of Interest” (November 2001)
- AAU Report on Individual and Institutional Conflict of Interest (October 9, 2001)
- AMA-Conflicts of Interest: Biomedical Research (E-8.031)