Review Integrity and Bias Awareness Training

Review Integrity and Bias Awareness Training is required for reviewers for most meetings.

The two trainings, each approximately 30 minutes long, are:

  1. “Review Integrity” module — raises awareness of actions that breach review integrity and provides tools to prevent and report them.
  2. “Bias Awareness and Mitigation” module — raises awareness of potential biases in the peer review process and provides strategies to mitigate them.

Reviewers who have not taken the training will receive a system-generated email:

  • When added to a roster. The email will come from nihreviewertraining@csr.nih.gov with a customized link to the NIH Reviewer Training site
  • When invited to the Recruitment phase or Submit phase in IAR. The email will come from IAR and/or Peer Review.

If a reviewer who has not taken the trainings tries to access their assigned applications on the List of Meetings screen in IAR, they will be presented with a message that they have to complete the training before they can access the applications.

Before accessing the training portal, reviewers will need to have completed the process of logging into eRA Commons with their Login.gov credentials and associating their Login.gov credentials with their eRA Commons username and password (a one-time association). See flyer and webpage for instructions.

Reviewers will need 2 sets of username and passwords for using Login.gov to access eRA Commons:

  • one for Login.gov and
  • the other for eRA Commons.

They should begin the process on the eRA Commons landing screen, by clicking on the Login.gov logo on the upper left-hand side of the screen.

Reviewers will provide the same Login.gov credentials that they used for eRA Commons, as well as their Commons user ID when accessing the NIH reviewer training site.

Scientific review officers (SROs) will be able to track if reviewers have completed the training by going to the Control Center screen in IAR or the Recruitment Control Center screen in Peer Review. A new column labeled ‘Training Completed’ will display ‘Yes’ if reviewers have taken the training and ‘No’ if they have not.

A ‘No’ will still allow a reviewer to complete the Recruitment phase but the training must be completed before the reviewer can access their assigned applications in the Submit phase.