Population Tracking @ NIH
The NIH Revitalization Act (Public Law 103-43) requires that all NIH-funded clinical research include women and members of minority groups and their subpopulations; exceptions to this policy must have a compelling rationale. To comply with this law, NIH policy requires all investigators to provide initial target data and yearly cumulative enrollment data describing the sex/gender and ethnicity/race of participants in each clinical research protocol that is proposed. NIH developed the Population Tracking Module as part of the NIH eRA system.
- NIH program staff monitors compliance by evaluating and approving the required population target and enrollment reports submitted by the Principal Investigators of awarded projects
- Pop Tracking users include Institute/Center staff involved in project
monitoring, approval, data entry, data correction, data reporting,
and administration. The roles are assigned by the IC through the IMPAC
Administration module. The roles include:
- Population Tracking Update Role - DEAS staff; Program Officials; IC staff that enter data
- Population Tracking Read Only Role - DEAS staff Population Tracking
Approval Role - Program Officials - Population Tracking Override Role - Lead official responsible for the pop tracking system at the IC, as designated by the IC Director or designee
- Population Tracking Intramural Role -- eRA staff to enter the Intramural Data
- Population Tracking Data Admin Role --- eRA staff and Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) staff to run the relevant reports to submit to Congress
- Principal Investigator Role - Principal Investigators
- ICO Grant Update Role - to change the Population Tracking code and Gender Minority codes in GUM (Grant Update Module)
An IMPAC II Username and password and a specific role, as listed above, are needed to log in.