Institute for Community Health Policies, as adapted from: The Detroit Community-Academic Prevention Research Center, the Michigan Center for the Environment and Children’s Health, the North Carolina Community-Based Public Health Initiative and the Harvard Medical School Faculty Policies on Integrity in Science. Introduction   The intent of this document is to outline policies regarding data ownership, access to data, authorship, data confidentiality, and data dissemination. Given that in each project, the Institute for Community Health...

Data ownership   There should be an explicit agreement between ICH researchers and community and university partners with respect to ownership of the research data. The nature of the agreement will be determined...

Disclosure statement   Each author is required to fill out this form.

Confidentiality agreement   Pledge of confidentiality for data use.

Publication of manuscripts/Authorship   Publication of manuscripts/Authorship   Included in the ICH mission statement is publication of research findings and of processes involved in improving community health. Publication is an important by-product of the work that is done...

Data confidentiality / IRB policy   ICH research projects will adhere to the human subjects review process standards and procedures set forth by Cambridge Health Alliance and any other appropriate IRB. In addition, the ICH will...

Memorandum of agreement   All persons who work with ICH data, but are not on the ICH staff, will need to sign a memorandum of agreement. Such persons will include graduate students, visiting...

Dissemination of findings   For each project, there should be a joint planning process early on between researchers and community participants with respect to the dissemination of the research results. Dissemination may be...