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Survey for BIRCWH Principal Investigators
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09250643 EXP. DATE: 10/31/2017
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1. Are you currently, or have you ever been, a Principal Investigator (PI) for the K12 program entitled “Building Interdisciplinary
Research Careers in Women’s Health” (BIRCWH)?
a. Yes, I am currently a PI for the BIRCWH program [Go to Branch #1]
b. Yes, I am a former PI for the BIRCWH program [Go to Branch #2]
c. No, I have never been a PI for the BIRCWH program [End survey]
BRANCH #1: CURRENT BIRCWH PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS (Q1=a)
2. What is the name of the academic institution or organization where you are the PI for the BIRCWH program?
3. [If Q2=nn] If you selected nn. Other, please specify:
4. In addition to your role as the Principal Investigator, which other roles do you currently have in the BIRCWH program? (Check all
that apply)
a. Primary mentor
b. Secondary mentor
c. Supplemental mentor
d. Advisory board member
e. Steering committee member
f. Other (please specify):
g. None
5. Prior to your current role as the Principal Investigator, which other roles have you had for the BIRCWH program? (Check all that
apply)
a. Primary mentor
b. Secondary mentor
c. Supplemental mentor
d. Program director
e. Advisory board member
f. Steering committee member
g. CoInvestigator
h. Program coordinator
i. Other (please specify):
j. None
6. Please indicate your level of satisfaction with each of the following components of the BIRCWH program:
Neither
satisfied nor
Very
Very satisfied
a. Overall performance of the program
b. Daytoday management of the program
c. Administrative resources from my institution
allocated to the program
d. Interaction with program mentors
e. Mentors' efforts to advise scholars
f. Accomplishments of the scholars
Satisfied
dissatisfied
Dissatisfied
dissatisfied
7. In addition to the mentoring that BIRCWH scholars receive, what other types of training or career development activities are offered
to scholars? (Check all that apply)
a. Workshops
b. Courses for credit
c. Noncredit courses
d. Scientific seminars
e. Peer mentoring
f. Peertopeer activities, including peer review activities (excluding peer mentoring)
g. Informal journal clubs
h. Interest groups on selected topics
i. Conferences
j. Networking events (e.g., dinner meetings)
k. Other (please specify):
l. None
8. [If Q7=ak] Please list the topics covered in the training or career development activities provided to BIRCWH scholars (e.g., grant
writing, article writing, etc.):
9. What support does your institution provide to the BIRCWH program? (Check all that apply)
a. Additional funding to the BIRCWH program as whole
b. Access to the necessary internal institutional facilities for the BIRCWH scholars
c. Access to the necessary external facilities for the BIRCWH scholars
d. Administrative support that may be needed by the BIRCWH scholars
e. A supportive network of mentors for the BIRCWH scholars
f. Training and career development activities
g. Other (please specify):
h. None
10. [If Q9=a] Please describe the type of additional funding (e.g., matching funds) that your institution provides to the BIRCWH
program:
11. [If Q9=a] How satisfied are you with the additional funding that your institution provides in support of the BIRCWH program?
a. Very satisfied
b. Satisfied
c. Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
d. Dissatisfied
e. Very dissatisfied
12. Please indicate your level of satisfaction with the following items related to the BIRCWH grant:
a. The overall support you receive from
the NIH program officer
b. The grants management guidance
you receive from the NIH
c. The funding (total dollar amount per
year) you receive for the grant
d. The timeliness of the NIH response to
your concerns
e. The information from the NIH to
Very
satisfied
Satisfied
Neither
satisfied nor
dissatisfied
Dissatisfied
Very
dissatisfied
Not
applicable
ensure adherence to the administrative
guidelines of the grant
f. The overall management of the grant
by the NIH
13. [If 12a through 12f=Dissatisfied or Very dissatisfied] You indicated that you are dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with one or more
items. Please explain why and provide recommendations for improvement:
14. Please estimate the average number of hours per month that you devote to the following BIRCWH program activities.
Hours per month
a. Interacting with scholars at your institution
b. Interacting with mentors at your institution
15. About how often would you say that you contact the NIH staff during the following:
a. Preparing and submitting a BIRCWH grant
application or reapplication
b. Requesting BIRCWH grant funds
c. Submitting Research Performance Progress Reports
(RPPR) for the BIRCWH grant
At least once
per week
At least once
per month
Several times
per year
Once a year
Rarely or
never
Several times
per year
Once a year
Rarely or
never
16. About how often would you say that the NIH contacts you during the following:
a. Preparing and submitting a BIRCWH grant
application or reapplication
b. Requesting BIRCWH grant funds
c. Submitting Research Performance Progress Reports
(RPPR) for the BIRCWH grant
At least once At least once
per week
per month
17. How helpful are your typical interactions with the NIH staff?
a. Very helpful
b. Helpful
c. Slightly helpful
d. Not at all helpful
18. How would you compare your typical interactions with the NIH staff for the BIRCWH program to your typical interactions with
staff from nonNIH grantmaking programs?
a. Much more positive
b. Somewhat more positive
c. Neutral
d. Somewhat more negative
e. Much more negative
f. Not Applicable
19. Please provide recommendations on how the NIH could improve the programmatic components and oversight of the BIRCWH
program:
Background and Demographics Current PIs
20. What is your current position at your institution? (Optional)
21. What is your discipline or field of study? (Optional)
22. Which of the following best describes your ethnicity? (Optional)
a. Hispanic or Latino
b. Not Hispanic or Latino
23. Which of the following describes your race? (Check all that apply) (Optional)
a. American Indian or Alaska Native
b. Asian
c. Black or African American
d. Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
e.White
24. What is your citizenship status? (Optional)
a. US citizen since birth
b. Naturalized US citizen
c. NonUS citizen with permanent resident visa (green card)
d. NonUS citizen with temporary US visa
25. What is your gender? (Optional)
a. Male
b. Female
26. In what year were your born? (Optional)
BRANCH #2: FORMER BIRCWH PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS (Q1=b)
2. What type of organization is your current employer?
a. Research intensive university or medical school
b. College or university which is not research intensive but which conducts some research
c. University affiliated research institute
d. Community or twoyear college
e. Precollege educational system (preschool through high school)
f. Hospital, not affiliated with a university
g. Professional, private practice
h. Other clinical setting
i. U.S. Federal government
j. U.S. State or local government
k. Foreign government
l. Not for profit organization
m. Industry/Corporate (for profit)
n. Selfemployed
o. Other (please specify):
3. What is the name of the academic institution or organization where you were the PI for the BIRCWH program?
4. [If Q3=nn] If you selected nn. Other, please specify:
5. In addition to your role as the Principal Investigator, which other roles did you have in the BIRCWH program? (Check all that
apply)
a. Primary mentor
b. Secondary mentor
c. Supplemental mentor
d. Advisory board member
e. Steering committee member
f. Other (please specify):
g. None
6. Thinking back to your role as the PI, please indicate how satisfied you were with each of the following components of the BIRCWH
program.
Very satisfied
a. Overall performance of the program
b. Daytoday management of the program
c. Administrative resources from my
institution allocated to the program
d. Interaction with program mentors
e. Mentors’ efforts to advise scholars
f. Accomplishments of the scholars
Satisfied
Neither satisfied
nor dissatisfied
Dissatisfied
Very dissatisfied
7. In addition to the mentoring that BIRCWH scholars receive, what other types of training or career development activities were
offered to the scholars? (Check all that apply)
a. Workshops
b. Courses for credit
c. Noncredit courses
d. Scientific seminars
e. Peer mentoring
f. Peertopeer activities, including peer review activities (excluding peer mentoring)
g. Informal journal clubs
h. Interest groups on selected topics
i. Conferences
j. Networking events (e.g., dinner meetings)
k. Other (please specify):
l. None
8. [If Q7=ak] Please list the topics covered in the training or career development activities provided to BIRCWH scholars (e.g., grant
writing, article writing, etc.):
9. What support did your institution provide to the BIRCWH program? (Check all that apply)
a. Additional funding to the BIRCWH program as a whole
b. Access to the necessary internal institutional facilities for the BIRCWH scholars
c. Access to the necessary external facilities for the BIRCWH scholars
d. Administrative support that may be needed by the BIRCWH scholars
e. A supportive network of mentors for the BIRCWH scholars
f. Training and career development activities
g. Other (please specify):
h. None
10. [If Q9=a] Please describe the type of additional funding (e.g., matching funds) that your institution provided to the BIRCWH
program:
11. [If Q9=a] How satisfied were you with the additional funding that your institution provided in support of the BIRCWH program?
a. Very satisfied
b. Satisfied
c. Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
d. Dissatisfied
e. Very dissatisfied
12. Thinking about your role as the PI in the BIRCWH program, please indicate your level of satisfaction with the following:
Very
satisfied
Satisfied
Neither
satisfied nor
dissatisfied
Dissatisfied
Very
dissatisfied
Not
applicable
a. The overall support you received from
the NIH program officer
b. The grants management guidance you
received from the NIH
c. The funding (total dollar amount per
year) you received for the grant
d. The timeliness of the NIH response to
your concerns
e. The information from the NIH to
ensure adherence to the administrative
guidelines of the grant
f. The overall management of the grant
by the NIH
13. [If 12a through 12f=Dissatisfied or Very dissatisfied] You indicated that you are dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with one or more
items. Please explain why and provide recommendations for improvement:
14. Please estimate the average number of hours per month that you devoted to the following BIRCWH program activities.
Hours per month
a. Interacting with scholars at your institution
b. Interacting with mentors at your institution
15. About how often would you say that you contacted the NIH staff during the following:
At least once
At least once
Several times
Rarely or
a. Preparing and submitting a BIRCWH grant
application or reapplication
b. Requesting BIRCWH grant funds
c. Submitting Research Performance Progress Reports
(RPPR) for the BIRCWH grant
per week
per month
per year
Once a year
never
Several times
per year
Once a year
Rarely or
never
16. About how often would you say that the NIH contacted you during the following:
a. Preparing and submitting a BIRCWH grant
application or reapplication
b. Requesting BIRCWH grant funds
c. Submitting Research Performance Progress Reports
(RPPR) for the BIRCWH grant
At least once
per week
At least once
per month
17. How helpful were your typical interactions with the NIH staff?
a. Very helpful
b. Helpful
c. Slightly helpful
d. Not at all helpful
18. How would you compare your typical interactions with the NIH staff for the BIRCWH program to your typical interactions with
staff from nonNIH grantmaking programs?
a. Much more positive
b. Somewhat more positive
c. Neutral
d. Somewhat more negative
e. Much more negative
f. Not Applicable
19. Please provide recommendations on how the NIH could improve the programmatic components and oversight of the BIRCWH
program:
Demographics Former PIs
20. What is your current position at your institution? (Optional)
21. Which of the following best describes your ethnicity? (Optional)
a. Hispanic or Latino
b. Not Hispanic or Latino
22. Which of the following describes your race? (Check all that apply) (Optional)
a. American Indian or Alaska Native
b. Asian
c. Black or African American
d. Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
e.White
23. What is your citizenship status? (Optional)
a. US citizen since birth
b. Naturalized US citizen
c. NonUS citizen with permanent resident visa (green card)
d. NonUS citizen with temporary US visa
24. What is your gender? (Optional)
a. Male
b. Female
25. In what year were your born? (Optional)
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