Integrating transparency into a university quality management system (#WCRI2017)

The first talk I attended (other than the plenaries) was by Patricia C. Henley, who runs the Research governance and integrity office of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her job is to “save researchers from themselves”, as she joked. The LSHTM  is the legal sponsor of 88 trials, many of them drug…

The role of governments on Research Integrity (#WCRI2017)

Three speakers, all of them politicians, talked on the second plenary session of the 2017 World Conference on Research Integrity about the role of governments in fostering research integrity. Jet Bussemaker, a member of the Dutch Parliament (Ministry of Health) and an academic herself, talked about the importance of independent research in today’s society and introduced…