Published 9 June 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2338
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b2338

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Australian research council reviews conflict of interest requirements

Melissa Sweet

1 Sydney

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Australian researchers, universities, and other research institutions are likely to face measures aimed at ensuring conflicts of interest are declared.

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is considering recommendations that would require researchers to publicly declare conflicts of interest on university and other institutional websites.

The council has also been asked to consider establishing its own conflict of interest committee, to provide advice internally and to act as a reference for other bodies, and to require research institutions to establish similar committees.

The suggestions were made by senior researchers and NHMRC members at a workshop on transparency and conflicts of interest convened by the council in Canberra last week.

"The ideas that came up are all worth consideration, and we will take those ideas to our council over the next six months," Warwick Anderson, chief executive officer of the council, told the BMJ after the workshop.

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