Research Compliance Program (RCP) for FAS/SEAS

Research compliance at Harvard has always been a shared responsibility, reflecting the creativity, flexibility, and multidisciplinary nature of our research community. In recent years, the compliance landscape has moved at an unprecedented pace, challenging our research enterprise, its structure, and our ability to adjust to new requirements and regulations.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), including the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR) have established a shared Research Compliance Program (RCP).  Under this program, staff from OVPR assumed operational and administrative responsibility of certain research compliance functions, effective February 15, 2023. The research compliance functions to be transferred to OVPR include (i) faculty/researcher outside activities and conflicts of interest, (ii) export controls, and (iii) international collaborations and activities.

We ask that new compliance requests please use the following email addresses for questions and inquiries:

• Export Controls requests: RCP_exportcontrol@harvard.edu
• Outside Activities and Conflict of Interest requests: RCP_outsideactivities@harvard.edu
• International Collaborations & Activities requests: RCP_internationalcollaborations@harvard.edu
• General questions or concerns : rcp@harvard.edu.

For requests submitted before February 15, 2023, there is no further action needed.  The existing FAS email accounts will remain open for the time being and will forward to the new email accounts.

RCP Leadership & Staff