The prestigious British medical journal The Lancet is investigating complaints about a possible conflict of interest involving one of the authors of a recent article that found systemic human rights violations in Haiti despite the presence of a Canadian-led United Nations police force. The article's co-author, Athena Kolbe is a graduate student in the WSU School of Social Work. Critics contend that she used to be an advocacy journalist who wrote under a pen name and worked at a Haitian orphanage founded by ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Her report about human rights violations cannot be considered objective, they say.