The UAB Enterprise Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment Policy opens a new website was revised in January 2021 to require certain UAB employees to “review and recertify disclosures of financial interests annually” while maintaining a role of full-time faculty, investigator, or institutional officials. This additional form is the mechanism by which these annual disclosures are reviewed and recertified.

Annual Disclosures are now submitted through myUABResearch opens a new website.

Information and assistance is available through myUABResearch Contact & Support opens a new website.

Institutional Officials: This includes any employee with direct authority over allocation of institutional resources, assignments of graduate students, trainees, funding, space, salary, or promotions for faculty.  Institutional officials include the University President, University Provost, University Vice Presidents, Deans, Chairs, and other administrators in key decision-making, signatory, or assurance roles, as determined and notified in writing by the Chief Risk & Compliance Officer in consultation with the University President.

Designated Employee: Certain employees who are not investigators, institutional officials, or full-time faculty members have been included in the annual requirement based upon their role and job responsibilities.

All individuals who must complete the annual requirement are notified by email.

You received the email because you have been categorized as an institutional official, full-time faculty member, other designated employee, or investigator.

If you are categorized as an institutional official (i.e., University President, University Provost, University Vice Presidents, Deans, and Chairs) or other designated employee, you were notified separately by the Chief Risk & Compliance Officer.

Please note that “investigator” is defined broadly and is not limited to principal investigators (“PIs”), and may include those individuals designated as responsible personnel on research projects with which they are associated. If you have additional questions about why you were designated as an investigator or you believe you are no longer in a role that qualifies as an “investigator,” please contact the Office of Research Conflicts of Interest in the Office of Research at (205) 975-9691 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Yes. Although you have already received approval for a foreign external activity within the external activity workflow, you must still disclose the foreign affiliation to ensure it is entered in the Annual Requirement workflow.

While the UAB Enterprise Conflict of Interest Conflict of Commitment Policy opens a new website policy requires advance approval prior to participating in external activities, UAB encourages full transparency at any time. The external activity request form will allow an after-the-fact submission. Accordingly, requests must be submitted after-the-fact to ensure correct disclosures have been made to the institution. For individuals responsible for research, changes in financial interests, which includes payments related to external activities, must be disclosed within thirty (30) days of the change.

No.

No. The Statement of Economic Interest Form is required annually by the Alabama Ethics Commission. The answers provided in the Statement of Economic Interest Form go to the Alabama Ethics Commission. Those answers gathered in the Statement of Economic Interest Form are not provided to UAB.

In contrast, the Annual Requirement e-form is a UAB internal e-form required by the UAB Enterprise Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment opens a new website policy. The answers provided in the Annual Requirement e-form are used by UAB administrative offices to determine whether a conflict of interest or conflict of commitment exists.