Office of Research Security and Ethics

Conflict of Interest

Supports the outside activity disclosure system, providing training and guidance on making complete and accurate disclosures to protect both the employees and university research. Complete COI reviews for SRS/IRB, ensuring UC research is compliant with applicable university policies, and local, state, and federal laws.

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Training Upon Request

Online Training

16
Apr 2026

Event

Hutton Ethics Lectureship: "Doctor, Will You Pray for Me?": Medicine, Chaplains and Healing the Whole Person (4/16)

Time: April 16, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Location: MSB 7051

Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students, Researchers

Research Office: Office of the Vice President for Research

As part of the rich history of the Hutton Ethics Lectureship, Dr. Robert Klitzman, Columbia University Professor of Psychiatry, will discuss themes from his book Doctor, Will You Pray for Me?

The Hutton Lectureship in Ethics was established in 2004 by the Hutton family and the UC College of Medicine to honor John J. Hutton, MD, former dean of the college. The lecture series encourages the cultivation and maintenance of the highest standards of personal medical ethics, helping to build respect and trust for and among researchers at UC. Dr. Klitzman's talk will explore illness, death, and dying from the perspective of patient and their families, and from medical professionals, illuminate the vital role that Chaplains play in hospitals for a generally under-informed public, and offer a path forward for chaplains, healthcare providers, and patients and their families to address illness and spirituality more fully and effectively in their own lives and the lives of others.

Learning objectives for participants:
Examine the existential, spiritual and religious challenges patients and their families confront
Discuss how chaplains can help patients and families confront these challenges.
Explore how physicians, nurses, chaplains and other providers can enhance their abilities to address these concerns

Please RSVP by April 10th

The University of Cincinnati is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Cincinnati designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extend of their participation in the activity.

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Online Training

Conflicts of Interest in Research

Target Audience: All faculty and staff who conduct research at UC

Research Office: Office of Research Security and Ethics

Faculty and staff who participate in funded research at the University of Cincinnati must complete training on promoting objectivity in research. This training is required every four years, at a minimum, due to federal regulations governing conflicts of interest in research. The course for meeting this requirement is available in the UC online training application CPD (Continuous Professional Development). If you are a UC employee and have not completed the Conflict of Interest Training, you will not be able to complete your Outside Activity Report.

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Online Training

OAR Training

Target Audience: Faculty, Staff

Research Office: Office of Research Security and Ethics

The University of Cincinnati will begin using a new disclosure system starting in November. The system will replace the university’s Outside Activity Report (OAR) and provide a user-friendly interface to disclose outside activities.

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Past Events

02
May 2024

Event

VIRTUAL - Hutton Ethics Lectureship 2024 | Bringing a Health Equity Lens to Clinical Care and Research - Ana S. Iltis, PhD (5/2)

Time: May 2, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Location: Virtual Zoom Event

Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students, General Public

Research Office: Office of the Vice President for Research

Learning objectives:

1. Describe at least three examples of documented health disparities across different populations
2. Recognize at least two ways in which clinical research practices or translation of research into the clinical setting contribute to health disparities
3. Identify at least one strategy to address a health disparity in clinical or research practices.

23
Mar 2023

Event

Virtual - HUTTON LECTURE: Moral Engagement, Disengagement and Conflicts in Development of Health Care AI - Mildred Cho, PhD, Stanford University (3/23)

Time: March 23, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Location: Virtual Zoom event.

Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students, General Public

Research Office: Office of the Vice President for Research

Learning Objectives for Participants:

1. To be able to identify three types of harms that health care AI can pose to patients, clinicians, health systems, and the public.
2. To be able to name three potential drivers of harms of health care AI, including either features of AI itself, of the health care environment, or of the high-tech environment.
3. To be able to name at least two types of moral disengagement that might affect an individual’s self-regulatory process.

Bio: Mildred Cho is a professor in the Center for Biomedical Ethics, Department of Pediatrics and in the Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine (Stanford University) and Associate Director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics.

31
Mar 2022

Event

Virtual - HUTTON LECTURE: CONFRONTING THE GLOBAL CRISIS IN KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION - Bridget Pratt, University of Melbourne (3/31)

Time: March 31, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Location: Virtual

Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students, General Public

Research Office: Office of the Vice President for Research

Learning objectives

To identify five dimensions/components of social justice and how they are defined
To understand how health research can be designed to promote those five dimensions of social justice
To give examples of practical strategies to take these learnings forward in your own research practice

Bio: Bridget is an ethics researcher and the Mater Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Ethics at Queensland Bioethics Centre at Australian Catholic University. She is a Visiting Professor at the Julius Centre for Global Health at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She is an honorary at the Centre for Health Equity at the University of Melbourne. Bridget received her PhD in bioethics in 2012 and her Masters in International Health in 2009 from Monash University in Australia. From 2013 to 2015, Bridget was a Hecht-Levi fellow at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and a research fellow in the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. From 2013-2020, she was a research fellow in Centre for Health Equity at the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne.
Bridget’s research interests include the ethics of global health research, health systems, and urban planning, with a focus on equity, social justice, and (more recently) ecological justice. In her work, she uses a combination of applied philosophy and qualitative methods, reflecting her belief that the most robust ethical guidance is informed by both theory and practice. She has developed ethical guidance on the following topics: research priority-setting, research governance, community engagement, ancillary care, capacity development, post-study benefits, and data sharing.

31
Mar 2022

Event

ETHICS AND EQUITY IN ACADEMIC PUBLISHING - Liz Scarpelli, Director of University of Cincinnati Press (3/31)

Time: March 31, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Location: Virtual

Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students, General Public

Research Office: Office of the Vice President for Research

Liz Scarpelli and Andrew Cullison will facilitate a conversation about ethics and equity issues in academic publishing. Topics will include the rising costs of textbooks and the open access movement. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the publishing process. We will also discuss what limits there should be if any on the publication of controversial topics.
About Liz Scarpelli
Elizabeth Scarpelli is the founding director of the University of Cincinnati Press. Prior to starting the press in 2017, she worked as marketing and sales director at Rutgers University Press, textbook sales director at Cambridge University Press, textbook district sales director at Prentice Hall-Pearson, and Publishing Services Director Baker and Taylor. In addition to director, she acquires books for the Press in social justice across all disciplines, educational studies, academic-community collaborations, Ohio and the greater Cincinnati area, open educational resources, and open-access textbooks. She has a BA from Fordham University in Communications and a MA in Higher Education Administration from the University of Cincinnati. She is a member of the DE&I task force and OD Advisory Council for UC Library and the Rapid Response Team for UC-College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services. She is also a member of AUPress, Library Publisher Coalition, and is on the board of the Midwest Independent Publishers Association.

31
Mar 2022

Event

LEADERSHIP IN CRISIS - Jon Fortt, Co-anchor CNBC (3/31)

Time: March 31, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Location: Virtual

Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students, General Public

Research Office: Office of the Vice President for Research

Jon Fortt will lead a discussion on Leadership in Crisis drawing from over two decades of experience covering leaders in the tech industry. Participants will also have a chance to sign-up for his online course The Black Experience in America for free.

31
Mar 2022

Event

ETHICAL ISSUES WITH CRYPTOCURRENCY - Michael Jones, University of Cincinnati (3/31)

Time: March 31, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Location: Virtual

Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students, General Public

Research Office: Office of the Vice President for Research

Join Michael Jones for a conversation on the ethical issues surrounding cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.
About Michael Jones
Michael Jones is an Associate Professor, Educator of Economics, at the University of Cincinnati. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Notre Dame and his MBA. from the University of Cincinnati. Prior to receiving his Ph.D., he worked as a Senior Research Analyst for the Nielsen Company and as a Senior Business Development Manager at Cincinnati Bell. He is also the Academic Director for the Kautz-Uible Economics Institute and the Academic Director for the MS Applied Economics Program.

31
Mar 2022

Event

LEADERSHIP AND ALLYSHIP - Kristen Campbell, University of Cincinnati (3/31)

Time: March 31, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Location: Virtual

Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students, General Public

Research Office: Office of the Vice President for Research

Join UC doctoral candidate, Kristen Campbell, for an interactive workshop on Leadership and Allyship

29
Mar 2022

Event

RESEARCH ACTION TEAMS SHOWCASE - Carlie Trott - Community-led Climate Resilience Planning for a More Equitable Cincinnati: Centering Equity and Justice through Neighborhood-level Advisory Councils (3/29)

Time: March 29, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Location: Virtual

Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students, General Public

Research Office: Office of the Vice President for Research

In Cincinnati and cities across the nation, racial and environmental injustices are intensified under a changing climate, fueling demands for climate justice. This interdisciplinary, community-engaged pilot project simultaneously enacts and examines what a more just, equitable, and sustainable neighborhood-level planning process might look like—one that centers the voices and actions of community members in critically-affected Cincinnati neighborhoods.

29
Mar 2022

Event

RESEARCH ACTION TEAMS SHOWCASE - Anne Steinert - The Avondale Neighborhood History Initiative (3/29)

Time: March 29, 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Location: Virtual

Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students, General Public

Research Office: Office of the Vice President for Research

Beginning in the summer of 2021, the Avondale Neighborhood History Initiative empowers residents of Avondale, Cincinnati’s largest Black neighborhood, to discover, preserve, and present the history of their own neighborhood. This community-led process “prioritize[s] leadership by those most affected by injustice and inequity in order to effect structural and systemic changes that can support and sustain inclusive and healthy communities.”1 The expected outcomes of this process will be a trained team of lay community historians who will conduct extensive research and collaborate with humanities scholars to plan a multi-modal three-site public history exhibition including a Black history walking trail, digital exhibitions, panel exhibits, an oral history project, and school programs.

29
Mar 2022

Event

RESEARCH ACTION TEAMS SHOWCASE - Kate Bonansinga - Step Up to Art: Art on Cincinnati's Staircases to Improve Public Health and Neighborhood Connection (3/29)

Time: March 29, 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

Location: Virtual

Target Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students, General Public

Research Office: Office of the Vice President for Research

Can public art on Cincinnati’s exterior stairways improve the emotional and physical health of its residents and the connectivity between neighborhoods? Step Up to Art addresses this question by reimagining the pedestrian infrastructure, and consequently the future of social interaction, through the implementation of art to transform 19th-century stairways located in Cincinnati’s urban core.

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Phone: 513-556-5501

Email: ConflictOfInterest@uc.edu