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HHS Annual Plan

 

PAR

 

The Performance and Accountability Report (PAR) Act implements a process of program review and evaluation to determine the strengths and weaknesses of Federal programs with a particular focus on the results produced by individual programs. The information gathered in the review and evaluation process established by the PAR Act, coupled with GPRA data, is used to aid the Executive Branch in making informed management decisions and evidence-based funding requests aimed at achieving positive results. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is responsible for complying with the reporting requirements.  NIH supports all of the HHS strategic goals and submits specific performance goals for relevant strategic goals. NIH specifically supports the HHS Strategic Goal 4:  Enhance Capacity and Productivity of the Nation’s Health Science Research Enterprise.

  

 

MD&A

Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) is a concise overview or executive summary of PAR reporting, and pays particular attention to the quality and efficacy of internal controls in place in both operational and traditional reporting areas at a program level.  The report contains a discussion of key program, management, and financial performance highlights.

HHS reports on its Annual Plan's performance in the PAR report and the MD&A document.


In FY 2006, NIH provided three performance measures in support of Strategic Goal 4.  Performance summary for each of the measures is shown below.  To view the complete performance reports for the measures, click here.  

Trends

Fiscal Year Actual

Performance Measure

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

By 2010, identify culturally appropriate, effective stroke prevention programs for nationwide implementation in minority communities.

N/A

Established seventeen Nursing Partnership Centers to reduce health disparities, including stroke, which link research-experienced nursing schools with minority-serving nursing schools across the nation.

Established acute stroke care center serving a minority community in the Washington DC metropolitan area.

Established research infrastructure and advisory committees, and hired director for Stroke Prevention and Intervention Research Program.

Established Alaskan Native Stroke Registry, began enrolling patients



Trends

Fiscal Year Actual

Performance Measure

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

By 2008, develop and test two new evidence-based treatment approaches for drug abuse in community settings.

N/A

N/A

Three treatments have been adapted for community-based settings.

The Clinical Trials Network has trained 184 providers (94 more than planned) in Brief Strategy Family Therapy, Motivational Enhancement Treatment, and Seeking Safety, which are being tested in community settings.

02/07



Trends

Fiscal Year Actual

Performance Measure

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

By 2012, develop a knowledge base on chemical effects in biological systems using a systems toxicology or toxicogenomics approach.

N/A

ProtoCEBS
launched.

CEBS now has a data portal that loads toxicology data. CEBS can import, export, and link molecular expression data to toxicology/ pathology fields.

CEBS versions 1.5 and 1.6 have been made available to the public. These programs provide simple query download capability of global molecular expression and toxicology/pathology data on a select number of studies of chemicals found in the environment and drugs that have an effect on biological systems.

CEBS version 2.0.7 was released and is the first public repository designed to capture, and fully integrate with ‘omics data, toxicological, histopathological and other biological measures.



The current PAR Report can be found here.

 

Prior PAR Reports can be found here.

This table presents the NIH GPRA Goals in support of the HHS Strategic Goals.

To view the linkages between NIH GPRA goals and HHS objectives and plans, click here. 

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