HRSA staff review the application to assure that the
applicant met the grant deadline and grant application requirements.
The grants office reviews the budgets and then forwards
the applications to the Division of Independent Review (DIR).
DIR and the MCHB program office are responsible for examining
the application to determine that page limits have been
followed, and that the applicant is eligible to apply.
The DIR then convenes a panel of content experts to review
and score all applications submitted in a given program
area. The review panel might meet face-to-face or over the
telephone.
The panel develops a detailed summary review that outlines
the strengths and weaknesses of each application according
to the review criteria; and gives each grant a score.
Scores are used to develop a list that ranks all applications
submitted to the program area by their score.
