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OFM serves as an essential partner in providing accounting and financial management services to support the NIH's scientific and biomedical research communities. OFM comprises five divisions for which these services are coordinated for both internal and external customers.
OHRP provides clarification and guidance, develops educational programs and materials, maintains regulatory oversight, and provides advice on ethical and regulatory issues in biomedical and behavioral research. OHRP also supports the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP), which advises the HHS Secretary on issues related to protecting human subjects in research.
HHS OIG is the largest inspector general's office in the Federal Government, with approximately 1,600 dedicated to combating fraud, waste and abuse and to improving the efficiency of HHS programs. A majority of OIG's resources goes toward the oversight of Medicare and Medicaid — programs that represent a significant part of the Federal budget and that affect this country's most vulnerable citizens. OIG's oversight extends to programs under other HHS institutions, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, and the Food and Drug Administration.
OMA provides broad management oversight and advice to the Deputy Director for Management and the Institutes and Centers, (ICs) on management reviews, corrective actions, and NIH-wide management of activities related to regulations, delegations of authority, A-76/FAIR Act and Privacy Act requirements, records and forms management, organizational and functional analysis, and manual issuances;
Additionally, OMA conducts management assessments to improve component-specific and/or NIH-wide management effectiveness and efficiency of administrative management functions and systems, as well as broad-based management assessments of program areas as appropriate. Specific responsibilities also include:
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Organizationally, ORI is located within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) within Office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (OS) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Another program coordination activity is the development and maintenance of referral guidelines for assignment of grant applications to the NCI. These guidelines, included in the Referral Guidelines for Funding Components of PHS, are critical to the development of program initiatives across the NIH, as well as the prompt referral of unsolicited grant applications to the NCI. These guidelines differ from the NCI Internal Referral Guidelines, which are vital to the prompt referral of grant applications to the appropriate NCI program areas.
ORWH's interdisciplinary research and career development initiatives stimulate research on sex and gender differences and provide career support to launch promising women's health researchers. These programs set the stage for improved health for women and their families and career opportunities and advancement for a diverse biomedical workforce.
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An Other Transaction is a funding mechanism which targets non-traditional sources and allows a high degree of flexibility in how the agreement is awarded. Typical government procurement and grant laws, regulations and policies do not apply to OT awards.
There are three NIH activity codes for OT awards:
An example is the NIH Common Fund Program "The Human BioMolecular Atlas Program".
To accomplish its mission, OTT staff provide management and oversight of the collection and disbursement of royalties, monitor and enforce patent rights and licensing agreements, coordinate the payment of all patent annuities, market available technologies to the private sector, provide legal docketing services, and provide technology development systems support and expertise to the NIH Technology Transfer community.
NCI's Office of Management Policy and Compliance (OMPC) advises the Office of Management and other senior staff on the implementation of Institute-wide administrative policies and procedures, management controls and evaluations while ensuring compliance with Federal requirements.
NIH's Office of Policy for Extramural Research Administration (OPERA) provides leadership and oversight in grants management policy and compliance, intellectual property, and OMB clearances to the extramural research community and NIH extramural staff through policy development, expert guidance, analysis, outreach, and related information dissemination in order to promote effective stewardship of NIH extramural funds in support of health research.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) works in several broad categories to recruit, retain and honor a world-class workforce for the American people.
Now known as the Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP).
HHS's Office of Research Integrity (ORI) oversees and directs Public Health Service (PHS) research integrity activities on behalf of the Secretary of Health and Human Services with the exception of the regulatory research integrity activities of the Food and Drug Administration.
NCI DEA's Office of Referral, Review, and Program Coordination (ORRPC), which consists of four review branches and a program coordination and referral branch, provides: (1) coordination of the development and issuance of NCI program initiatives; (2) execution of grant receipt and referral; and (3) management of NCI peer review activities. Review activities include the organization and management of peer review for all applications and proposals received in response to RFAs, PAs, PAs with Special Receipt (PARs), complex, multi-component grant and cooperative agreement initiatives, and R&D RFPs. The program coordination responsibilities of the DEA, in cooperation with NCI extramural program Divisions, Offices, and Centers, extend to the development of all new extramural program guidelines and funding opportunity announcements (FOAs).
NIH's Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is the first Public Health Service office dedicated specifically to promote women's health research within and beyond the NIH scientific community. ORWH was established in September 1990. Congress assigned a far-reaching leadership role for ORWH by mandating that the ORWH Director:
ORWH crafts and implements the NIH Strategic Plan for Women's Health Research in partnership with NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) and co-funds research on the role of sex and gender on health. ORWH also collaborates with NIH ICs, the NIH Office of Extramural Research, and the NIH Office of Intramural Research to monitor adherence to NIH's inclusion policies, which ensure that women and minorities are represented in NIH-supported clinical research.
Individuals who have committed to contribute to the scientific development or execution of the project, but are not committing any specified measurable effort (i.e., person months) to the project. These individuals are typically presented at "effort of zero person months" or "as needed." Individuals with measurable effort may not be listed as Other Significant Contributors (OSCs). Consultants should be included if they meet this definition.
In 1976, Congress established the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to provide the President and others within the Executive Office of the President with advice on the scientific, engineering, and technological aspects of the economy, national security, homeland security, health, foreign relations, the environment, and the technological recovery and use of resources, among other topics. OSTP also leads interagency science and technology policy coordination efforts, assists the Office of Management and Budget with an annual review and analysis of Federal research and development in budgets, and serves as a source of scientific and technological analysis and judgment for the President with respect to major policies, plans, and programs of the Federal Government.
An "Other Transaction" (OT) award refers to a transaction other than a contract, grant or cooperative agreement under section 402(b)(7) or 402(b)(12) of the Public Health Service Act.
The Center for Scientific Review (CSR) Integrated Review Group (IRG) Oncology 2 — Translational Clinical Integrated Review Group (OTC IRG) will consider applications involving translational and clinical investigations that encompass cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
In 1984 The Office of Tropical Medicine and International Research (OTMIR) was established to coordinate NIAID's intramural and extramural research activities in tropical medicine and other international research. OTMIR worked with other Federal agencies and international organizations active in these areas. In 1995 the Office of Tropical Medicine and International Research (OTMIR) was transfered to the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, and abolished.
The NIH Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) plays a strategic role by supporting the patenting and licensing efforts of our NIH ICs. OTT protects, monitors, markets and manages the wide range of NIH discoveries, inventions, and other intellectual property as mandated by the Federal Technology Transfer Act and related legislation.
