If you are an Investigator and receive a travel reimbursement/sponsorship and/or stipend of any amount from a foreign entity, this must be disclosed as a Foreign Interest for conflict of interest review.
If you are an Investigator, this activity should be disclosed for conflict of interest review if it meets the definition of a Significant Personnel Interest. Significant Personal Interests are any managerial, professional, or Fiduciary Position you (or a Family Member) hold in any outside entity, whether or not you or your family is compensated. This can include officer, director, and board positions.
If you are an Investigator, this activity should be disclosed for conflict of interest review if it meets the definition of a Significant Personnel Interest. Significant Personal Interests are any managerial, professional, or Fiduciary Position you (or a Family Member) hold in any outside entity, whether or not you or your family is compensated. This can include officer, director, and board positions.
If you are an Investigator, this is a Foreign Interest that must be disclosed for conflict of interest review. Foreign Interests are:
Generally speaking, this often falls within one’s institutional duties and responsibilities. If this is outside of an individual’s institutional duties and responsibilities and meets the definition of an Outside Commitment, it will need to be disclosed for conflict of commitment review.
Because the stipend is less than $5,000 and from a U.S. institution, this does not need to be disclosed for conflict of interest review. This may, however, need to be disclosed for conflict of commitment review if it is an Outside Commitment, which can include fee-for-service activity and Research.
Investigators, as defined in the Conflicts of Interest & Commitment policy, are required to submit a Research Certification for each Research Project, both non-sponsored and sponsored. OROI relies on the PI to make this determination. “Who is an Investigator?” can be used to help determine if you are an Investigator.
University Employees are asked to disclose their Outside Interests (Significant Financial Interests, Significant Personal Interests, Foreign Interests), Outside Commitments and Substantial Interests so that determinations of what is and is not a conflict can made through OROI.
Please work with your college to determine what is and is not considered to be part of your UArizona duties and responsibilities. The following disclosure scenarios may be helpful:
Overlap between an Outside Interest and a Research Project occurs when there is Relatedness.
“Relatedness” is the condition in which it may reasonably appear that decisions made by the Investigator in the performance of his/her institutional responsibilities could directly and significantly affect the value of his/her Significant Financial Interests or be in conflict with Significant Personal Interests or Foreign Interests.