Here is a list of examples of good practices where institutions, from across the globe, have tried to address the undue influence from corporations. This was originally published as « Additional file 4 » in our scoping review entitled « Mechanisms for addressing and managing the influence of corporations on public health policy, research and practice: a scoping review« .
- Africa – Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa: https://pplaaf.org/fr/
- Australia:
- Australian Government Lobbyists Register: https://lobbyists.pmc.gov.au/
- Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC):
- Freedom of Information: https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/about-us/freedom-information
- Freedom of Information Disclosure Log: https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/about-us/freedom-information/foi-disclosure-log
- Public submissions – Open public consultations: http://consultations.nhmrc.gov.au/files/consultations/_written_submissions/
- Australian Public Service Commission – Sect 4.12 Gifts and benefits: https://www.apsc.gov.au/sect-412-gifts-and-benefits
- Deakin University – ‘the University must not accept direct or indirect funding from or enter into any partnership or other arrangement with the tobacco industry, an organisation in the tobacco industry or from a foundation that accepts funds from the tobacco industry.’: https://policy.deakin.edu.au/view.current.php?id=00099
- Flinders University – School of Health Science – Student prizes: http://www.flinders.edu.au/sohs/sites/nutrition-and-dietetics/student-prizes.cfm
- The University of Sydney ban on acceptance of funding from tobacco companies: http://sydney.edu.au/policies/showdoc.aspx?recnum=PDOC2011/4
- The University of Sydney, Charles Perkins Centre – Engagement with industry guidelines: https://sydney.edu.au/content/dam/corporate/documents/charles-perkins-centre/CPC%20Engagement%20with%20Industry%20Guidelines.pdf
- The University of Sydney – School of Molecular Bioscience – Scholarships and Prizes: http://sydney.edu.au/science/molecular_bioscience/current_students/prizes.php
- Brazil:
- Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa):
- Agenda of senior officials: http://portal.anvisa.gov.br/agenda-de-dirigentes/-/agenda/403
- Decree on conflict of interest related to working groups: http://portal.anvisa.gov.br/documents/219201/219401/Portaria+n%C2%BA+1.886+Anvisa%2C+de+07+de+outubro+de+2016/29237afa-2b7e-456c-9a61-7826a747ded4
- Presidency of the Republic:
- Agenda: http://www2.planalto.gov.br/acompanhe-o-planalto/agenda-do-presidente-da-republica/ (agenda available for other government officials)
- Code of Conduct for Senior Federal Administration 2014: http://etica.planalto.gov.br/sobre-a-cep/legislacao/codigo-conduta-compilado-2014.pdf
- Supreme Court portal: http://portal.stf.jus.br/
- Superior Electoral Court:
- ‘Disclosure of Election Candidatures and Accounts’: http://www.tse.jus.br/eleicoes/eleicoes-2018/prestacao-de-contas-1
- ‘Accountability of candidates and political parties’: http://divulgacandcontas.tse.jus.br/divulga/
- Tobacco Control Inter-Ministerial Commission: https://www.inca.gov.br/observatorio-da-politica-nacional-de-controle-do-tabaco/comissao-nacional-para-implementacao-convencao-quadro-para-o-controle-tabaco-e-seus-protocolos
- Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa):
- Canada:
- Alberta Securities Commission – System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR): http://www.sedar.com/
- Canadian Medical Association – Policy on physicians’ interactions with industry was formally adopted by 22 out of 60 Canadian medical associations (2017): https://content.iospress.com/articles/international-journal-of-risk-and-safety-in-medicine/jrs731
- Government of Canada:
- Meetings and correspondence on healthy eating: https://www.canada.ca/en/services/health/campaigns/vision-healthy-canada/healthy-eating/meetings-correspondence.html
- Justice Laws website – Criminal Code: https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/page-87.html#docCont
- Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner – Registry of gifts: http://ciec-ccie.parl.gc.ca/EN/PublicRegistries/Pages/Gifts.aspx
- Chile:
- Electoral Service – Donations: https://www.servel.cl/donaciones/
- Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency:
- Platform Lobby Law:
- Code of good practices for lobbyists: https://www.leylobby.gob.cl/files/buenas_practicas_lobby.pdf
- Registry of lobbyists: https://www.leylobby.gob.cl/lobbistas
- Law n°20285 on access to public information: https://www.leychile.cl/Navegar?idNorma=276363
- Platform Lobby Law:
- Supreme Court portal: https://oficinajudicialvirtual.pjud.cl/frameInv.php
- Colombia:
- Congress of Colombia – Law 190 of 1995, article 15 – Regime of civil servants: http://wp.presidencia.gov.co/sitios/normativa/leyes/Documents/Juridica/Ley%20190%20de%2006%20de%20junio%20de%201995.pdf
- Presidency of the Republic of Colombia – Law 1712 of 1994 on transparency and right to access to national public information: http://www.anticorrupcion.gov.co/SiteAssets/Paginas/Publicaciones/ley-1712.pdf
- Djibouti – Law n°175/AN/07/5L Concerning Organization for the Protection of Health against the Tobacco Habit: https://www.tobaccocontrollaws.org/files/live/Djibouti/Djibouti%20-%20Law%20No.%20175_AN_07%20%20-%20national.pdf
- European Union:
- European Commission:
- Consultations – Public Health: http://ec.europa.eu/health/consultations/index_en.htm
- European Food Safety Authority – Declarations of interests – Panel on nutrition: https://ess.efsa.europa.eu/doi/doiweb/doisearch/panel/NUTRI/wg/0
- European Parliament:
- Committees – Draft agendas: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/draft-agendas.html
- Declarations of interests – Members of the European Parliament: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/full-list.html;jsessionid=E560EDFEFF30C5A1388A59D4CED052FB.node2
- Register of gifts – 8th parliamentary term: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/pdf/meps/gifts_register_8.pdf
- Guidelines on the prevention and management of COI in EU decentralised agencies: https://europa.eu/european-union/sites/europaeu/files/docs/body/2013-12-10_guidelines_on_conflict_of_interests_en.pdf
- European Commission:
- France:
- National Assembly – Financing of political life: parties and electoral campaigns: http://www2.assemblee-nationale.fr/decouvrir-l-assemblee/role-et-pouvoirs-de-l-assemblee-nationale/le-depute/le-financement-de-la-vie-politique-partis-et-campagnes-electorales
- Education Code, L952-2: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?idArticle=LEGIARTI000006525617&cidTexte=LEGITEXT000006071191&dateTexte=20000622
- High Authority for Transparency in Public Life:
- Register of lobbyists: https://www.hatvp.fr/le-repertoire/
- Maison des lanceurs d’alerte (House of whistle-blowers): https://mlalerte.org/
- Penal Code – Article 432-12 (individual conflicts of interest): https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?cidTexte=LEGITEXT000006070719&idArticle=LEGIARTI000006418521&dateTexte=&categorieLien=cid
- Public database Transparency – Health – Law No. 2011-2012 of 29 December 2011 on the Strengthening of Health Protection for Medicinal and Health Products: https://www.transparence.sante.gouv.fr/flow/main;jsessionid=0E92D3EA675ADC35CA00343C3E7D0763?execution=e1s1
- Germany – Institute for Therapy Research Munich (Insitut für Therapieforschung München) – Policy on Competing Interests: https://www.ift.de/institut/konkurrierende-interessen/
- India – Right to Information Act, 2005: https://rti.gov.in/
- International – Annals of International Medicine – Editorial ‘Exorcising Ghosts and Unwelcome Guests’: https://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/718788/exorcising-ghosts-unwelcome-guests
- International – Association of Health Care Journalists – Statement of Principles of the Association of Health Care Journalists: https://healthjournalism.org/secondarypage-details.php?id=56
- International – the BMJ:
- The BMJ and sister journals no longer carry advertisements for breastmilk substitutes: https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l1200
- Staff declarations: https://www.bmj.com/about-bmj/editorial-staff
- International – Cochrane policy on commercial sponsorship of Cochrane Reviews and Cochrane Group: https://community.cochrane.org/organizational-info/resources/policies/commercial-sponsorship-policy
- International – Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Conflict of Interest form: http://www.icmje.org/conflicts-of-interest/
- International – Journal of Human Lactation does no publish research funded by companies that are not compliant with WHO Code on the Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes: https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/JHL/2019%20JHL%20Author%20Directions%20-%20revised%206.17.2019.pdf
- International Network on Brief Interventions for Alcohol & Other Drugs (INEBRIA) – Position Statement on the alcohol industry: http://inebria.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/position_statement_on_the_alcohol_industry.pdf
- International – Neurology Journals – Authorship and Disclosures: https://www.neurology.org/authorship-and-disclosures
- International – Public Health Nutrition – PHN Editors conflict of interest statements: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-health-nutrition/information/phn-editors-conflict-of-interest-statements
- International Society of Addiction Journal Editors – declarations of conflicts of interest for contributors and editors: http://www.addictionjournal.org/pages/ethical-policy
- International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA) – Partnership, sponsorship and donation policy: https://www.isbnpa.org/index.php?r=about/partnership
- International – Tobacco control, BMJ, Heart, Thorax, BMJ Open, PLoS Medicine, PLoS One, PLoS Biology, Journal of Health Psychology, journals published by the American Thoracic Society – no research funded by the tobacco industry: see individual websites for each journal
- International – World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki – Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects – Ethics Committees – ‘This committee must be transparent in its functioning, must be independent of the researcher, the sponsor and any other undue influence and must be duly qualified’: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/1760318
- Ireland – Department of Health – Freedom of Information Request Log: https://health.gov.ie/about-us/freedom-of-information/foi-request-log/
- Latin America – Sociedad Latinoamericana de Nutrición (SLAN) – Conflict of Interest policy: https://www.slaninternacional.org/conflicto-interes/postura_cdi_slan.php
- Mexico:
- Chamber of Deputies of the High Congress of the Union – General Secretary – Secretariat of Parliamentary Services:
- Federal Law for administrative responsibilities of public servants, Article 8, XV: http://www.diputados.gob.mx/LeyesBiblio/abro/lfrasp/LFRASP_abro.pdf
- Federal Law of transparency and access to public information: http://www.diputados.gob.mx/LeyesBiblio/pdf/LFTAIP_270117.pdf
- Law of Administrative responsibilities of civil servants (individual conflicts of interest): http://www.diputados.gob.mx/LeyesBiblio/abro/lfrasp/LFRASP_abro.pdf
- Regulation of the Scientific Council for the Health Risks Regulatory Agency: http://www.diputados.gob.mx/LeyesBiblio/regla/n326.pdf
- Ministry of Health – Ethics and Prevention of Conflicts of Interest Committee: https://www.gob.mx/cms/uploads/attachment/file/119088/Bases_Integraci_n_CEPCI.compressed.pdf
- Chamber of Deputies of the High Congress of the Union – General Secretary – Secretariat of Parliamentary Services:
- Mongolia – Tobacco Control Act, 2005 (revised 2012): https://www.who.int/fctc/implementation/news/Tobacco_Control_Law_Eng_revised_4_January_FInal.pdf?ua=1
- Nepal – Tobacco Product Control and Regulatory Directive 2014: https://www.who.int/fctc/reporting/party_reports/nepal_2012_annex1_tobacco_product_control_regulatory_act_2011.pdf
- New Zealand – Education Act 1989 No 80, Public Act 161 Academic freedom: http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1989/0080/latest/DLM183665.html
- Panama – Ministry of Health – Resolution No. 745 on the National Commission for the Study of Tobacco: https://www.tobaccocontrollaws.org/files/live/Panama/Panama%20-%20Res.%20No.%20745%20-%20national.pdf
- Philippines:
- Civil Service Commission – Department of Health – Joint Memorandum Circular no. 2010–01 on Protection of the Bureaucracy against Tobacco Industry Interference: https://untobaccocontrol.org/impldb/wp-content/uploads/reports/philippines_2016_annex8_protection_of_burocracy_against_tobacco_industry_interference_2010.pdf
- Department of Health – Memorandum No. 2010–0126 on Protection of the Department of Health, including all of its Agencies, Regional Offices, Bureaus or Specialized/Attached Offices/Units, against Tobacco Industry Interference: http://www.healthjustice.ph/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/DOH-Memo-on-Art-5.3-DM-2010-0126.pdf
- Russian Federation – Federal Law N 15-FZ of February 23, 2013 On Protecting the Health of Citizens from the Effects of Second Hand Tobacco Smoke and the Consequences of Tobacco Consumption: http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/docs/ELECTRONIC/96223/117041/F-1510580117/law%20No.15-FZ.pdf
- South Africa – South African Government – Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000: https://www.gov.za/documents/promotion-access-information-act
- Uganda – Ministry of Health – Tobacco Control Act (2015): https://health.go.ug/download/file/fid/1110
- United Kingdom (UK):
- House of Lords: FOI Request Logs – UK Parliament: https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/offices/lords/freedom-of-information-in-the-house-of-lords/log/
- National Health Service (NHS) England:
- Conflicts of interest management templates: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/conflicts-of-interest-management-templates/
- Managing Conflicts of Interest: Statutory Guidance for Clinical Commission Groups: https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/04/drft-revsd-stattry-guid-manag-coi.pdf
- Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) – RCPCH statement on relationship with formula milk companies: https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/news-events/news/rcpch-statement-relationship-formula-milk-companies
- Wellcome – Conflicts of interest policy: https://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/conflicts-of-interest-policy.pdf
- United States of America (USA):
- American Association of University Professors – Recommended Principles to Guide Academy-Industry Relationships: https://www.aaup.org/file/Academy-Industry%20Relationships_0.pdf
- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition – Information for authors: format and style requirements: http://www.ajcn.org/misc/ifa_ format.shtml#ref
- American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics – Meet our sponsors: http://www.eatrightpro.org/resources/about-us/advertising-and-sponsorship/meet-our-sponsors
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services – Open Payments, established through the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (PPSA), also known as section 6002 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010: https://www.cms.gov/openpayments/
- ClinicalTrials.gov – a public database operated by the National Institutes of Health – for phase II and higher drug and biologic trials when either a trial site is in the United States, or the trial is part of an investigational new drug application
- Cornell University – Financial Conflict of Interest Related to Research: https://www.dfa.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/policy/vol1_7.pdf
- National Institutes of Health (NIH):
- Financial Conflict of Interest: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/coi/index.htm
- Financial Conflicts of Interest for Awardees – standard operating procedure: https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/financial-conflicts-interest-awardees
- Obesity Week 2018: https://asmbs.org/app/uploads/2019/02/53473_Obesity_Week_ASMBS-Abstracts.pdf
- Office of the clerk – House of Representatives – Lobbying Disclosure: http://lobbyingdisclosure.house.gov/
- Standford University – Standford University industrial contracts office – Researcher’s Guide to Working with Industry: https://ico.sites.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/sbiybj6716/f/researchersguidetoworkingwithindustry.pdf
- State Legislative Prohibitions on « Revolving Doors »: http://www.ncsl.org/research/ethics/50-state-table-revolving-door-prohibitions.aspx
- Structured Pharmaceutical Representative Interactions and Counterdetailing sessions as Components of Medical Resident Education: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0897190012465988
- University of California – General University Policy- APM – 025 regarding academic appointees – Conflict of Commitment and Outside Activities of Faculty Members: https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/apm/apm-025-07-01.pdf
- US Food and Drug Administration – Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm
- U.S. Security and Commission Exchange: Edgar, company filings: https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/webusers.htm
- World Health Organization:
- Article 5.3 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: https://www.who.int/tobacco/wntd/2012/article_5_3_fctc/en/
- Framework for Engagement with non-State Actors (FENSA): http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/wha69/a69_r10-en.pdf
- World Public Health and Nutrition Association:
- Conflict of interest and ethics policy https://www.wphna.org/sites/default/files/COI%20Policy%20Final%20Nov%202017.pdf
- World Nutrition Congress 2016 – http://archive.wphna.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/WPHNA-2016-Call-for-BID-final-12-11-14.pdf
- World Obesity Financial Relationship Policy: http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wof-files/WOF_Financial_Relationship_Policy_June2015.pdf
- World Public Health and Nutrition Association (WPHNA) – Conflict of interest and ethics policy: https://www.wphna.org/sites/default/files/COI%20Policy%20Final%20Nov%202017.pdf
Dr Mélissa Mialon 