Research visitors may be invited to UCSF for short-term translational, basic sciences, and clinical research activities. They may include graduate and undergraduate students, professional researchers, and research collaborators. Research visitors are not employed or paid by UCSF payroll.

In order to ensure that research visitors meet institutional compliance and liability requirements and are supervised accordingly, visits from research visitors must be guided by an appropriate and available campus appointment and/or affiliation agreement. Depending upon the background and purpose of the invited visitor, there may be different options for the type of research visitor appointment, associated required paperwork and approvals to request the visit.

Departments are responsible for ensuring that their research visitors complete all required compliancy trainings and have passed all applicable health screenings.

To assist departments with available appointments and navigating through the various available options and processes, HR has established various tools and resources to guide through this process:

Research visitor appointment selection tool (Powerpoint)
Research visitors process maps (which include the following):
- Decision flow chart
- Research visitors
- Research visitor requiring affiliation agreement for educational credit
- Research visitor requiring institutional affiliation agreement
- Research visitor requiring education credit and institutional affiliation agreement
Non-salaried appointment grid
Volunteering at UCSF process steps
Affiliated employee process step
UC student visitor process steps

Contact your HR representative with questions you may have about research visitors.

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