Association for Prevention Teaching and Research

RESPONSIBLE CONDUCT OF

RESEARCH WEBINAR

June 16, 2017

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET

APTR-CDC Cooperative Agreement

Since 1984, APTR has partnered with CDC in a

Cooperative Agreement to support training

activities.

APTR is part of the Academic Partnerships to

Improve Health (APIH) group, which focuses on

strengthening academia's linkages to public health

practice.

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Program Director

Academic Partnerships to Improve Health Division of Scientific Education and Professional Development Centers for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Opening Remarks:

LaVonne Ortega, MD, MPH

Professor of Epidemiology & Preventive MedicineUniversity of Michigan School of Public HealthEditor-in-Chief, American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Today’s Speaker:

Matthew L. Boulton, MD, MPH

Research Ethics

Matthew L. Boulton, MD, MPHSenior Associate Dean

Professor of Epidemiology & Preventive MedicineProfessor of Global Health

Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Preventive MedicineDirector, Preventive Medicine Residency

School of Public Healthand

Professor of Internal MedicineInfectious Diseases Division

Michigan MedicineUniversity of Michigan

Presentation Outline

• Research ethics and shared values

• Historical events influencing research

• Research Regulations• Institutional review boards (IRB)• Informed consent• Vulnerable populations• Conflict of interest and conflict of commitment

• Research misconduct

• Reporting research and scholarship• Publication• Authorship• Peer review

Conflict of Interest (COI):

Conflict of Commitment (COC):

COI/COC situations can impact areas related to your responsibilities, including:

o Mentoring of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior faculty

o Human subjects enrollment

o Purchasing decisions

o Acceptance of gifts

o Technology transfer

o Use of University resources

Unsure whether a situation represents a conflict of interest or

commitment between your obligation and an outside interest, activity, or

relationship? Ask yourself if the relationship could:

1. Lead to personal gain

2. Give improper advantage to someone other than your institution

3. Negatively impact your research

4. Unduly influence the business of your institution

5. Negatively affect your institution or other professional obligations

Some COI situations (e.g., financial interests) require a formal disclosure to

your unit and/or COI Committee. Others (e.g., influence upon procurement

decisions) rely on your knowledge of policies and your conscience to

behave ethically as opposed to formal disclosure.

Remember, having an outside interest does not necessarily mean you have a conflict of interest or

commitment. Conflicts are also not inherently bad or prohibited. However, failure to properly disclose an

outside interest that relates to your institutional responsibilities can lead to problems. All investigators on a

sponsored project must evaluate if they have financial or management interests to disclose.

What do I disclose?

o Time (i.e. length of a relationship and estimated professional effort spent on the outside interest)

o Type of relationship with the outside entity (e.g., consultant, honoraria speaker, board member, etc.)

o Equity interest in and/or compensation from the outside entity and its value

o Travel paid by the outside entity (PHS or unit-specific policy)

o Association (e.g., sponsor, product use, licensed inventions, subcontract with) with your research

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/26/us/panel-says-bell-labs-scientist-faked-discoveries-in-physics.html

o Misconduct in the performance and reporting of scholarship and research is a serious matter that may result in

disciplinary action by an institution and/or the federal government

o Serious lapses in integrity, including the falsification of results, plagiarism, and the abuse of confidentiality are

easily recognized across disciplines as serious offences. Such offenses may result in dismissal from an

institution.

o Less serious practices serve to undermine the quality of the research and the significance of authorship. While

practices designed to maximize the number of publications and to use authorship as a reward for more senior

faculty or others may not be considered as egregious, these practices erode the quality of scholarship at an

institution.

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Thank you for attending today’s webinar