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Establishment of the Research Compliance Program, including the administrative home for conflict of interest and privacy, reflects the University’s dedication to the highest standards of organizational integrity. Compliance is operationalized or incorporated into the teaching, research, and health care missions through a distributed network of program offices, School committees, academic unit leadership and UNC Health Care partners. We invite University researchers, students and administrators to call on us for assistance with training, policies, procedures or problem-solving. To learn about our campus partners in research compliance, privacy or other areas or topics of interest and training resources, please select from the links to the left.
Mission Statement
The University of North Carolina Research Compliance Program is committed to advancing the highest standards of ethics, integrity and honesty, and to compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and policies governing research, privacy and conflict of interest. The Program strives to promote best practices and ethical behavior and to deter activity contrary to these standards by (a) anticipating risk, and (b) encouraging strong stewardship and management accountability at all levels, in collaboration with institutional colleagues responsible for compliance implementation.
Program objectives include:
- Anticipating, analyzing and communicating current compliance standards to the campus leadership, research communities and departments that support them
- Providing oversight of and assistance with development of policies and procedures to ensure protection of human and animal study subjects
- Providing structure for disclosure and management of conflict of interest
- Fostering collaboration among institutional and administrative leaders with compliance responsibility to address issues that transcend departments through communication, training and integrated processes (such as HIPAA)
- Providing leadership, coordination and assistance with the management of agency reviews, audits and investigations
- Receipt, analysis and resolution of expressions of concern (“whistleblower” communications), including those processed through the confidential hotline