Podcasts: Using Plain Language in NIH Applications & Application Assignment

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Understanding the Assignment Process

All About Grants is beginning a new series of episodes to help listeners understand how the NIH reviews the approximately 80,000 competing applications we receive each year. Learn what happens to your application once it arrives at NIH, including how it gets assigned to a study section. Dr. Suzanne Fisher, Director of the Division of Receipt and Referral, discusses this and more in “Who Receives Your Grant Application and What Do They Do With It?

Communicate the Value of Your Research

Dr. Sally Rockey, Deputy Director for Extramural Research, describes which parts of the application are made public via the RePORTER website and why using plain language in these sections can help express the value of your research to the public in “Using Plain Language for Application Titles, Abstracts and Public Health Relevance Statements.”