SAMHSA Addional Collected Reviewer Data

The following are items that are not currently collected from reviewers at NIH, but that SAMHSA requires. SAMHSA wants to add these as fields on the Commons Personal Profile (and also in Persons Admin for agency staff to view/access).

• Past or Current Affiliation: This is not the same thing as the institution they work for. This is more community or group affiliations in their area of expertise. A similar field was already added for them in the Person Admin screen, where internal agency users view the reviewers, but they now need reviewers to be able to self-identify via Commons Personal Profile. The choices are as follows (they can only choose 1):

  • Community Based Organization

  • Consultant

  • Direct Treatment for Mental Health or Substance Abuse

  • Faith Based Organization

  • Federal, State, and County Government

  • Substance Abuse Prevention

  • Tribal Government

  • Research

  • University, Colleges, and Other Higher Education Systems

  • Other – free form explanation

• Transgender as a ‘Gender’ option (NIH does not have ‘Transgender’)

• Tribal Affiliation as a free-form text sub-category of ‘Alaska Native/American Indian’ Ethnicity.

• Licensed Professional in Mental Health or Substance Use Disorder

  • This is a new requirement for them due to the 21^st Century Cures Act where they need to ensure that a certain percentage of reviewers have specific education and professional licenses.

• The ability for the reviewer to self-identify areas of expertise. The expertise values already exist in our database, where an internal agency user can assign via Person Admin. SAMHSA is requesting that reviewers indicate the expertise themselves via Commons Personal Profile.

  • Primary Expertise – one choice

  • Secondary Expertise – up to 5 across three categories

• Grant Review/Writing Experience. Three free-form fields for self-identifying this type of experience as follows (brief explanation and dates):

  • Experienced SAMHSA Reviewer

  • Experienced Federal Reviewer

  • Experienced Non-Federal Reviewer

  • No Review Experience

• General expertise summary paragraph. Free form field for reviewers to provide a summary paragraph of their expertise in relation to substance abuse treatment, substance abuse prevention, and mental health.

• Indication of interest in becoming a reviewer. According to Aaron, this is something that NIH/RUG is interested in as well.

• Ability to upload a resume/CV. SAMHSA wants this to be a required field. They not only want the reviewer to be able to upload it, but they want their agency staff accessing the reviewer via Persons Admin to be able to view the resume.