The Office of Advocacy Relations (OAR) is pleased to share information about training advocates to participate in peer review.

Several materials are available, including a Training Overview , Training Resources , and Training Evaluation. This information is not copyrighted, and can be downloaded and printed.

The NCI Office of Advocacy Relations requests a source citation for its materials.  When OAR training materials are adapted or used, please note the source as below:

 Peer Review Training Workshop materials from the Office of Advocacy Relations, National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS.

Because the basic elments of peer review for biomedial research projects are quite similar, much of the material from OAR's training program can be easily adapted to other disease areas and settings.  For questions about using or adapting OAR's peer review training model, please contact the Office of Advocacy Relations at 301-594-3194.