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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health

Center for Scientific Review

Office of the Director

6701 Rockledge Dr., Rm. 3016

Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7776

April 19, 2012

SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION COLLECTION

UNDER GENERIC CLEARANCES

DATE OF REQUEST: ___4/19/2012__

SUB AGENCY (I/C): ____CSR________

TITLE: __ Early Career Reviewer Evaluation _____

GENERIC CLEARANCE UNDER OMB# ­__0925-0474__ EXP. DATE: __10/31/2014 ___________

ABSTRACT:

The mission of CSR is to ensure that NIH grant applications receive fair, independent, expert and timely scientific review. An essential element of this mission is to ensure diversity in the expert scientists who constitute peer review panels. To this purpose, CSR has developed in the last a year, the Early Career Reviewer Program which seeks to identify and train talented and promising scientists from a variety of backgrounds. CSR proposes to conduct an evaluation of this program under the OMB control number 0925-0474, with expiration date 10/31/2014. The survey will assess satisfaction of Early Career Reviewers with their experience of this program and this information will be used, in part, to determine whether the Program should be continued and how it could be improved. Automated information technology will be used to collect and process data for this survey. Participation in the survey will be strictly voluntary and individual respondents will not be identified. CSR will not provide payment or other forms of remuneration to respondents in collecting feedback.

TOTAL ANNUAL BURDEN APPROVED: 5075 respondents

BURDEN USED TO DATE: 4475

BURDEN THIS REQUEST: 140 respondents/23 hrs

IS RACE AND ETHNICITY DATA COLLECTED AS REQUIRED?

______YES __X___NO______N/A

OBLIGATION TO RESPOND:

__ X _VOLUNTARY

______ REQUIRED TO OBTAIN OR RETAIN BENEFITS

______ MANDATORY

HOW WILL THIS SURVEY BE OFFERED?

_ X ____ WEB SITE

_____ TELEPHONE INTERVIEW

_____ MAIL RESPONSE

_____ IN PERSON INTERVIEW

_____ OTHER: ___________________________________

CONTACT INFORMATION:

NAME: ____________ George Chacko _______________

TELEPHONE NUMBER: ___ 301-435-1133 _____________

EMAIL ADDRESS: chackoge@csr.nih.gov