The U.S. National Science Foundation in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense, has developed online research security training for the research community. This training provides individuals receiving federal research funding with valuable knowledge about potential risks and threats to the global research environment, along with strategies and resources for mitigating these risks.
Research Security Training
Research Security training is available via CITI Program through the UTHealth Houston subscription.
Log on to CITI www.citiprogram.org and click Register
Step 1 – Select Your Organizational Affiliation. Type University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Check both boxes to agree to terms of services and affirm that you are affiliated with UTHealth.
Step 2: Enter your name and email address. Please enter your UTHealth email if you have one, as the Primary Email.
Step 3: Create your username and password
Step 4: Enter your country of residence. Type USA - and choose United States from dropdown.
Step 5 - CME/CEU Credits: There is a charge for CEU credits. Select whether you would like to receive CEU credit or not and enter professional affiliation if credit is desired.
Step 6 - Member Information. Apologies in advance for this new screen which will ask for redundant information. You only need to complete required (*) fields. You do NOT need to enter an employee number.
Step 7 - Select Curriculum: Click Add Courses. Choose the course 'Research Security". There are 4 courses available. When you take this course for the first time, you may choose 1, 2 or 4. (we recommend option 4).
- Research Security: A Basic Course
- Research Security Training
- Research Security Advanced Refresher
- Research Security Training (Combined Course) A condensed and combined single-module course based on the NSF’s Research Security Training.
Your completion certificate will be saved in CITI - you can access it at any time.
NSF Training
Module 1: What is Research Security?: Learn key concepts of research security and how to recognize situations that may indicate undue foreign influence. Understand the regulatory landscape that shapes research security and discover what you can do to safeguard the core values that underpin U.S. academic research. What is Research Security?
Module 2: Disclosure: Learn about federal funding agency disclosure requirements, including types of information that must be disclosed, how that information is used, and why such disclosures are fundamental to safeguarding the U.S. research enterprise from foreign government interference and exploitation. Disclosure
Module 3: Manage and Mitigate Risk: Learn to identify types of international collaborative research and professional activities, associated potential risks, and strategies and best practices for managing and mitigating such risk. Learner experience will be customized based on their role as either a researcher or administrator. Manage and Mitigate Risk
Module 4: International Collaboration: Learn about the role of principled international collaboration in U.S. science, innovation and economic competitiveness. Discover how to balance principled international collaboration with research security concerns, as well as how to foster an open, welcoming research environment that fulfills research security needs. International Collaboration
