Making a Disclosure
 

The COI module in the Lehigh Integrated Research Administration (LIRA) system is used to collect all required disclosures per the Institutional Conflict of Interest Policy and the policy on Financial Conflicts of Interest Related to Research and Sponsored Programs. 

All Lehigh University employees are required to disclose the following items in the LIRA COI Module:

Real or apparent COI pursuant to the institutional COI policy:

  1. You (staff or faculty member) are a party to any relationship or arrangement, including but not limited to: 
    1. full or part-time employment with;
    2. service in a consulting or advisory capacity, whether compensated or uncompensated with, or;
    3. an ownership interest in

an External Entity (a person, firm, corporation, or organization) engaged in the delivery of educational or other services that fall within the scope of the University’s activities.

  1. You (staff or faculty member) are a party to any relationship or arrangement with an External Entity that may influence the exercise of your professional judgement on behalf of the University. 
  2. You (staff or faculty member) or any member of your Immediate Family (spouse, child, brother, sister, parent, grandparent, grandchild, domestic partner, and the respective spouses of the foregoing or any person residing within one’s household) have a relationship, economic or otherwise, as: 
  3. an owner or investor with the ability to control the entity, having an investment exceeding $10,000, and/or an equity interest of 10% or more; 
  4. an officer, director, trustee, partner, employee, consultant, or;
  5. the recipient of a gift (whether in money, goods or services), of a value greater than $100 whether received directly or indirectly

with any External Entity that supplies or receives funds, goods, services, or required approvals to or from the University, or proposes to do so in the near future.

Real or apparent Financial Conflicts of Interest (fCOI) pursuant to the fCOI in research policy: All faculty and staff responsible for the design, conduct, or reporting of research must disclose any real or apparent Financial Conflicts of Interest (fCOI) related to their research, as defined below: 

As it pertains to items 1-6 below, Immediate Family includes only the Investigator’s spouse, domestic partner, dependent children, and any persons residing in their household.

  1. For a Related domestic or foreign publicly traded External Entity:

The total value of any Remuneration received by the Investigator or their Immediate Family in the twelve months preceding the disclosure and the value of any Equity Interest in the entity as of the date of disclosure that together exceeds $5,000. This excludes income from or value of interests in investment vehicles such as mutual funds and retirement accounts, where the Investigator does not directly control the investment decisions made in these vehicles. 

  1. For a Related domestic or foreign non-publicly traded External Entity:
    1. The total value of any Remuneration received by the Investigator or their Immediate Family in the twelve months preceding that exceeds $5,000 or
    2. The Investigator or their Immediate Family holds any Equity Interest, regardless of its value.
       
  2. Upon its receipt, any income from a Related External Entity received by the Investigator or their Immediate Family related to intellectual property rights and interests. Excludes income paid by Lehigh University to the Investigator or their Immediate Family. 
     
  3. Any management position held by the Investigator, such as director, officer, partner, president, vice-president, or trustee, in any Related External Entity in the twelve months preceding the disclosure.
     
  4. Participation in or support received by the Investigator from a Foreign Talent Recruitment Program in the twelve months preceding the disclosure.
     
  5. Any travel that is reimbursed, paid, or otherwise sponsored on the Investigator’s behalf, related to the Investigator’s university responsibilities. This excludes travel reimbursed or sponsored by the university, a U.S. federal, state, or local government agency, a U.S. non-profit institution of higher education as defined at 20 U.S.C. 1001(a), or an academic teaching hospital, medical center, or research institute affiliated with an institution of higher education in the U.S. 
     
LIRA Resources
 
Completing an Annual Disclosure:
Completing a Research Disclosure:

Questions? Email incoi@lehigh.edu.