If my agency is involved with a group of agencies for specific research purposes, then can this group use the COI system to help with the research project?
Yes. Agencies can register their research projects with the COI, and then aggregation on multi-agency projects can occur as requested by the research group. On a geographic basis, groups of agencies can partner together to create COI chapters. A COI chapter requires 3 or more agencies and a university partner within a geographic area that wish to partner together to conduct various multi-agency analyses. Chapters can then create ethical guidelines, research parameters, and data transfer guidelines for their chapter. The COI will then support the chapter by facilitating multi-agency aggregation and analyses for the chapter. Chapters may submit recommended policies to the larger COI network for consideration of overarching COI policies and national COI outcome accreditation standards.
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