Financial Conflicts of Interest Self-Assessment
This self-assessment tool is intended to help an institution evaluate the operation of its individual financial
conflict of interest policies and procedures. It includes a very basic set of questions or statements concerning
institutional policies and procedures that may be useful in assisting an institution to look carefully at how it
operates rather than to assume that tasks, processes and documentation are being managed according to its policies
and procedures.
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Approaches to Developing an Institutional Conflict of Interest Policy
As a companion to COGR's Recognizing and Managing Personal Financial Conflicts of Interest (Winter 2002), this site
is designed to consider financial conflicts of interest at an institutional level. As more universities consider
the development of new policies and procedures a general framework is beginning to emerge. This web-based
discussion is intended to assist universities in the policy development process. In a series of short sections
that will be updated as needed COGR hopes to assist its members in building an effective approach for identifying
and managing institutional conflicts of interest.
We encourage you to help build this site by making contributions of references or information that will help build
a consensus on guiding principles and best practices for addressing our shared goal - preserving the integrity and
objectivity of the research enterprise at our universities.
- Introduction
- Section One - Defining Institutional Conflict of Interest
- Section Two - Building a Consensus
- Section Three - The Charge to the Committee
- Section Four - Policy Considerations
- Section Five - Implementation and Administration of a Policy
- Section Six - Resource Bibliography and Links to University and Federal Policies
- Section Seven - Case Studies
- Section Eight - Sample Policy Preamble
Recognizing and Managing Personal Conflicts of Interest, October 2002
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