Log into M-Inform M-Inform is the university's outside interest disclosure system.
Log into M-Inform (UMICH uniqname and password required)
Need assistance with your outside activity disclosure, or with using M-Inform? The COI Offices are here to help you!
Ann Arbor campus (excluding Michigan Medicine), Flint, and Dearborn employees: sign up for an individual half-hour appointment with UMOR COI staff.
Medical School employees: email medcoi-office@umich.edu to schedule an individual appointment.
As a researcher at the University of Michigan, you are expected to report (i.e., disclose) any outside activity, relationship, or interest ("outside activity") with an external entity (e.g, company, organization, etc.) to U-M for a conflict of interest (COI) review by a COI Office. Your outside activity disclosure ensures that you and U-M are compliant with the federal and state regulations designed to safeguard objectivity in research.
The University’s annual disclosure process begins July 1 with each new fiscal year. Complete the annual process in M-Inform beginning July 1, but update your disclosures within 30 days of any changes thereafter.
M-Inform is the university’s online outside interest disclosure system. M-Inform is an eResearch system supported by ITS. As an employee, you use this system to complete and submit the disclosure form(s) on, at least, an annual basis.
Disclosing may include reporting that you do not have outside activities or reporting outside activities with more than one external entity.
Each disclosure is reviewed by your unit and, if applicable, by a U-M Conflict of Interest review committee (UMORCOI or MEDCOI) to ensure compliance with federal, state, and university policies. If a conflict of interest is identified upon review, the COI committee works with you to manage the conflict to mitigate the impact on your research.
As a Principal Investigator (PI) or a study team member, completing a conflict of interest statement is a required part of the eResearch processes to:
This attestation is not equivalent to completing an outside interest disclosure in M-Inform. In eResearch applications you will see text reminding you to disclose any outside interests related to the research activity.
The eResearch IRB application (HUM) is integrated with M-Inform in that the U-M PI or study team member sees their disclosure status and a link to M-Inform as part of the COI statement. Per U-M and HRPP policies, you are required to disclose in M-Inform if you have an outside interest related to the HUM and you do not have a current disclosure in M-Inform. If you have a current disclosure in M-Inform, you are expected to update that disclosure when an outside interest applies to a new HUM; or amend an active HUM (and your current disclosure) when a new related outside interest arises or a change occurs to an existing related outside interest. See the Discloser procedures for instructions.
