Indiana University partnership audit shows ineligible costs

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – An audit of a cooperative agreement between Indiana University and the United States Agency for International Development shows nearly half a million dollars in ineligible travel expenses, construction contracts and unsupported payroll costs.

The Herald-Times reports that the audit examined more than $31 million in questioned costs related to a $65 million cooperative agreement the university managed for AMPATH, a partnership with Kenya's Moi University, Moi Research and Teaching Hospital, and a consortium of North American health centers led by Indiana University.

The audit disallowed nearly $439,000. Indiana University's vice president for research, Fred Cate, says subcontractors in Kenya that the university partnered with to deliver services were responsible for about $387,000 of the disallowances. Indiana University was responsible for about $51,000 travel-related costs.

Cate says the IU School of Medicine covered the entire cost of the refund.

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