Abstract
Sheila Garrity, a prominent figure in the research integrity world, will join the US Office of Research Integrity (ORI) as its permanent director next month, the office has announced. The ORI, which is part of the US Department of Health and Human Services and oversees research integrity in the US public health service, has experienced heavy staff turnover and rapid changes in leadership in recent years. Garrity replaces longtime staffer Wanda Jones, who was serving as the ORI’s acting director. Garrity is scheduled to start in the position the week of March 26. The ORI is one of the few agencies in the world that not only issues sanctions—such as bans from receiving federal grant funding and from serving on peer-review committees—for academics found to have committed research misconduct but also names them publicly. The office is also well known for providing a definition of research misconduct , which it
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