Institutional Conflicts of Interest in Academic Research

Institutional Conflict of Interest Policies at U.S. Academic Research Institutions.

PURPOSE Institutional conflicts of interest (ICOIs) occur when the institution or leaders with authority to act on behalf of the institution have conflicts of interest (COIs) that may threaten the objectivity, integrity, or trustworthiness of research because they could impact institutional decision making. The purpose of this study was to gather and analyze information about the ICOI policies ...

Academic medical centers and conflicts of interest.

Institutional financial conflicts of interest policies at Canadian academic health science centres: a national survey

Open Medicine 2010;4(3):e134 Financial conflicts of interest (fcoi) are of particular concern in the conduct of human subject research, whether they occur at the level of individual investigators or at the level of the institution.1 Institutional fCOI can occur when an institution that hosts the research, or a senior institutional official acting on behalf of the institution, has a financial in...

Conflicts of Interest in Public Policy Research

In this essay, I discuss the difficulty of sustaining an inquisitorial system of policy research and analysis when it is embedded in a broader adversarial political setting. Conflicts of interest in public policy research exist on a continuum from blatant pecuniary bias to more subtle ideological bias. Because these biases are only partially susceptible to correction through individual effort a...

Conflicts of interest in vaccine safety research.

Conflicts of interest (COIs) cloud vaccine safety research. Sponsors of research have competing interests that may impede the objective study of vaccine side effects. Vaccine manufacturers, health officials, and medical journals may have financial and bureaucratic reasons for not wanting to acknowledge the risks of vaccines. Conversely, some advocacy groups may have legislative and financial re...