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Tools to Use the NIH OAR Data Hub

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of AIDS Research (OAR) Data Hub is a dynamic interface that enables users to explore and learn about the NIH HIV research portfolio.

Available data include awarded research projects and research-related activities. Unfunded applications and research project data (e.g., clinical trial participant information or experimental outcomes) are not included in the NIH OAR Data Hub.

Have questions or feedback about the Data Hub? Email OARinfo@nih.gov.

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Data Notes, Information, and Interpretation

NIH Public Data + Strategic Plan Categorization Data: In addition to displaying data elements that are publicly available through other NIH systems, the NIH OAR Data Hub also describes the contributions of each award to the NIH Strategic Plan for HIV and HIV-Related Research. These elements are reflected in the NIH OAR Data Hub as research priorities and research objectives.

NIH HIV/AIDS Funding: NIH HIV/AIDS funding is a specific funding determination. The HIV/AIDS funding for each award will match the total award value only if funded entirely by HIV/AIDS appropriated funding. For prorated awards (i.e., those supported by HIV/AIDS funding and other funding sources), the HIV/AIDS funding amount will be less than the total award value. An award is typically prorated when only a portion of the proposed research is related to HIV.

Award: The NIH OAR Data Hub defines an award by a unique application ID. Accordingly, each of the following are counted as separate awards: parent project, subproject, administrative supplement, competing supplement, intramurals, contracts, and interagency and intra-agency agreements.

Annual frozen data: The NIH OAR Data Hub uses official (or “frozen” for the record) fiscal year data for the NIH spending category HIV/AIDS. NIH HIV/AIDS funding reported in the NIH OAR Data Hub aligns with frozen Actual AIDS Obligations data published by the NIH Office of Budget. Because NIH RePORTER reflects the most current information available for funded awards, NIH RePORTER data are subject to change as administrative details are updated. For this reason, award listings in the NIH OAR Data Hub sometimes cannot be duplicated through NIH RePORTER queries involving NIH spending categories.

Dashboard filters can result in zero records: Each filter operates independently, and all filters are applied when displaying records. If multiple filters are applied but no intersection between the fields exists, zero records will be displayed.

NIH Spending Categories: All awards presented in the NIH OAR Data Hub reflect the NIH spending category HIV/AIDS. As such, HIV/AIDS is not listed in the chart or filter for the NIH spending category. Data for NIH spending categories display public official categories only. Some NIH spending categories may not have data for all years. For more information, see About RCDC, RCDC FAQs, and RCDC Categorical Spending. For NIH spending categories, categories are overlapping, and most awards are categorized as more than one category. Therefore, award counts and total funding amounts cannot be summed across categories. For more information, see RCDC FAQs. If the NIH spending category filter is applied to only display records with “null,” the awards displayed are those that were categorized as HIV/AIDS with no additional NIH spending category identified.

Links to NIH sites: Links to NIH RePORTER are included for awards, organizations, and investigators. Clicking the link for an award will bring the user to the NIH RePORTER Project Details page. Clicking the links for organizations and investigators will bring the user to NIH RePORTER search results that are pre-filtered for awards in the NIH spending category HIV/AIDS from the most recent five fiscal years. Users can access older records by searching directly in NIH RePORTER. Links to NIH Grants & Funding are included for notices of funding opportunity (NOFOs), and notices of special interest (NOSIs).

Data Elements: Some data elements have only one value per award. Examples include application ID, project number, subproject number (if applicable), administrative Institute, Center, or Office (ICO), activity, mechanism, NOFO, NOSI, organization, investigator. Other data elements can have one or more values per award. Examples include HIV research priority, HIV research objective, funding ICO, NIH spending category. Because awards can be coded with multiple research objectives, if awards are filtered to display only one research objective, the total HIV/AIDS funding will display only the portion of award funding for that research objective, which will be less than the total award value.

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NIH HIV and Women’s Health Topical Portfolio Analysis:

  • HIV and Women’s Health Funding: HIV and Women’s Health funding is a subset of the specific funding determination of NIH HIV/AIDS funding that is either manually coded by ICOs as Women’s Health research or automatically included based on child RCDC categories. The term “Any Women’s Health related funding” refers to NIH HIV/AIDS-funded awards that have a portion of NIH HIV/AIDS funding that supported Women’s Health research. The term “100% Women’s Health focused funding” refers to NIH HIV/AIDS-funded awards that were completely supporting Women’s Health research. For prorated awards (i.e., those supported by NIH HIV/AIDS funding and other funding sources), the NIH HIV/AIDS funding displayed will be less than the total award funding. Likewise, for awards that are coded as less than “100% Women’s Health focused funding”, the HIV and Women’s Health funding displayed will be less than the total award funding. Some awards may be both prorated for NIH HIV/AIDS funding and “Any Women’s Health related funding”.
  • Total Award Funding: Total NIH award funding for each unique application ID at the intersection of Women’s Health and an RCDC category of interest excluding HIV awards.
  • HIV and Women’s Health dashboard filters can result in zero records: One RCDC category of interest is selected at a time. The default view will display the first RCDC category listed. If there are no awards at the intersection of categories, then zero will be displayed.
  • There are four graphs for interpretation. The first graph displays the HIV & Women’s Health funding for awards at the intersection of HIV and Women’s Health. The second graph displays the HIV & Women’s Health funding for awards at the intersection of HIV and Women’s Health and RCDC category of interest. The third graph displays the NIH HIV/AIDS funding for awards at the intersection of HIV and RCDC category of interest. The fourth graph displays the total award funding for awards at the intersection of Women’s Health and RCDC category of interest, excluding HIV awards. Please note for interpretation, the range of the axes for the second, third, and fourth graphs will change depending on the selected RCDC category.

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This page last reviewed on March 7, 2024