When to Share or When Not to Share, that is the Privacy Question

Looking for a grant award you heard about? Go here! Perhaps how many trainees NIH supported? You got it! Research spending on a certain disease? Done! Comparing NIH to another federal funder? Look no further! As you can see, NIH shares a quite diverse array of data associated with our funded grants in a transparent way. But, that does not mean we share everything. We take the privacy and protection of your sensitive and personally identifiable information very seriously.  And with the just-released “Final Rule,” as explained below, we are now able to better safeguard the privacy of the extramural application process, including work products resulting from peer review. NIH grants information is stored in the online official records system known as electronic Research Administration (eRA). People identified on applications and grants, like principal investigators, project staff, and NRSA trainees, must create a profile in the eRA Commons. The profiles can include a user’s name, date of birth, employment history, race, ethnicity, and sex. Employing appropriate security practices, eRA stores this information together with records generated from submitted applications and funded awards, to provide authorized Federal staff and contractors whose official duties require the use of this information a complete and accurate view of NIH’s supported research. Like other Federal agencies, NIH has developed practices based on Federal privacy laws that inform whether information on ...
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