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Conflict of Interest

Rowan University recognizes and has addressed the need to establish safeguards to prevent employees, collaborators, subcontractors, subrecipients, and visiting scientists from using their positions for purposes that are, or give the appearance of being motivated by a desire for financial gain form themselves or others. Significant financial and personal interest is not limited to salaries and payments. It can also include any interest held by the investigator and his/her immediate family in a business entity (company, corporation, or other enterprise) whose financial interest might reasonably appear to be affected by such activities.

Rowan University's Conflict of Interest policy addresses the general conflict of interest and the 2011 Revised PHS Financial Conflict of Interest.

Conflict of Interest Policy

General Conflict of Interest

Please complete the disclosure statement below if you have identified a conflict of interest during the proposal submission process, AND the sponsor is not Public Health Services (PHS) / Department of health and Human Services (DHHS) and/or an operational agency of PHS/DHHS.

General COI Disclosure Statement PDF version ( Click here for Word version Word )

PHS/PHS Operational Agency Financial Conflict of Interest

Public Health Services revised the existing Financial Conflict of Interest Regulation, Promoting Objectivity in Research, which took effect on August 24, 2012. Any institution receiving Public Health Service (PHS) funds from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other PHS operational agencies must be able to demonstrate greater transparency and accountability regarding financial conflict of interest management and reporting. The revised regulations focus solely on PHS and PHS Operational Agencies, and when the purpose of the funding is research.

The revised regulations require that all investigators submitting proposals to PHS and its operational agencies receive training in Financial Conflicts of Interest, which will be administered using the CITI website training program, and submit Significant Financial Interests to the Office of Sponsored Programs prior to spending any amount of awarded funds. Rowan University, through its Disclosure Review Committee, must review all Significant Financial Interests submitted by investigators to determine whether a Financial Conflict of Interest exists prior to expenditure of awarded funds. If a Financial Conflict of Interest does exist, a Management Plan may be put into place, and the conflict is subject to be made available to the public upon request.

Examples of Public Health Services Operating Agencies:

  • Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
  • Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF)
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMMS)
  • Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

Please complete the form below to report Significant Financial Interests when the sponsor is PHS/DHHS and/or an operational agency of PHS/DHHS.
PHS Significant Financial Disclosure Statement

To report multiple Significant Financial Interests, please use multiple PHS Significant Financial Disclosure Statements.

SFI Pocket Guide
Public Disclosure Statement

CITI Training Instructions

New Users:

  1. Click on CITI Training - Home Page link below
  2. Click on "New Users: Register Here"
  3. Select Rowan University as "Participating Institution"
  4. In employee ID number box, put Banner ID instead
  5. Select conflict of interest course

Existing Users:

  1. Click on CITI Training - Home Page link below
  2. Select conflict of interst course

CITI Training - Home Page