Ethics Office
The NHLBI Ethics Office plans, directs, and implements a
comprehensive ethics program in accordance with the requirements
established by the Office of Government Ethics, the Department
of Health and Human Services, and the National Institutes
of Health.
In addition, the Ethics office:
- provides advice and counsel to managers, supervisors,
and employees on the statutes, regulations, and policies
governing conflict of interest, standards of conduct, representational
activities, post-employment activities, and other ethics-related
issues;
- manages and administers the public and confidential financial
disclosure reporting system, reviews and certifies reports
for substantive conflicts of interest or other violations
of ethics rules, and implements remedies for identified
conflicts;
- reviews, recommends, and/or approves outside activity
requests by employees for conformance with statutes, regulations,
and policies and reviews and approves the annual report
of outside activities by employees;
- renders determinations under the Standards of Ethical
Conduct with respect to awards, honorary degrees, prohibited
gifts, conflicts of interest, impartiality, and other matters
requiring a disposition by the agency ethics official;
- administers procurement integrity ethics provisions, including
any and all procurement integrity advisory opinions;
- provides ethics clearance for sponsored travel reimbursement
authorities;
- assesses information provided by employees or others to
ascertain the application of conflict of interest statutes,
regulations, and policies and resolves actual or potential
conflicts or the appearance of a loss of impartiality;
- manages the ethics training program for new employees
and current employees in accordance with Office of Government
Ethics regulations and/or NIH specific policies;
- provides ethics reports to the NIH, Congress, and others;
and
- enforces ethics laws, standards of ethical conduct, and
related provisions through criminal referrals and/or administrative
sanctions.
For additional information, contact:
Ethics Office
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
ATTN: Web Site Inquiries
31 Center Drive, MSC-2482
Bethesda, Maryland 20892-2482 MAKE SURE
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Phone numbers are available in the Abbreviated
Staff Directory.
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