Change Request Memo

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES Public Health Service

National Institutes of Health

National Institute of Mental Health

6001 Executive Boulevard

Bethesda, Maryland 20892

DATE: January 25, 2023

TO: Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Through: Reports Clearance Officer, Sherrette Funn, DHHS¹

Project Clearance Chief, Mikia Currie, NIH

Project Clearance Liaison, Andrew A. Hooper, NIMH

FROM: Serena Chu

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

SUBJECT: Nomination to Serve on Peer Review Activities for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (OMB Control #0925-0766, Expiration Date 04/30/2023)

This is a request for OMB to approve non-substantive changes to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Peer Reviewer Registration Form data collection instrument approved on January 12, 2023, under the submission entitled, “Nomination to Serve on Peer Review Activities for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)”, OMB Control #0925-0766, Expiration Date: 04/30/2023.

Through the NIMH Peer Reviewer Registration Form, NIMH seeks self-nomination of individuals with appropriate expertise to participate in scientific review activities. NIMH aims to expand its pool of available reviewers with researchers who can bring diverse perspectives to the evaluation of applications. We are requesting approval of minor changes to language on the form to clarify how they should identify their Commons account. Please note, this update does not change the respondent time or cost burden estimates. The changes to the form will not meaningfully alter the content, scope, or method of the information collection; and are described in detail below.

Updates to the NIMH Peer Reviewer Registration Form

• To address technical issues, we would like to update Question #15 to:

  • Note that respondents are required to have a Commons Account (as opposed to noting they are required to have a “Commons ID”), and

  • Include a request for respondents’ Profile ID (which is a series of numbers associated with their account) as opposed to their Commons ID.

• In case helpful in reviewing this request, please note that the Commons ID is a username the person creating the account chooses and the Profile ID is a system generated series of numbers associated with the account.

Attachments:

1. Revised tracked changes copy of NIMH Peer Reviewer Registration Form

2. Revised clean copy of NIMH Peer Reviewer Registration Form

1Signature of Submitter