title: Size and characteristics of the biomedical research workforce associated with U.S. National Institutes of Health extramural grants.
abstract: The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) annually invests approximately $22 billion in biomedical research through its extramural grant programs. Since fiscal year (FY) 2010, all persons involved in research during the previous project year have been required to be listed on the annual grant progress report. These new data have enabled the production of the first-ever census of the NIH-funded extramural research workforce. Data were extracted from All Personnel Reports submitted for NIH grants funded in FY 2009, including position title, months of effort, academic degrees obtained, and personal identifiers. Data were de-duplicated to determine a unique person count. Person-years of effort (PYE) on NIH grants were computed. In FY 2009, NIH funded 50,885 grant projects, which created 313,049 full- and part-time positions spanning all job functions involved in biomedical research. These positions were staffed by 247,457 people at 2,604 institutions. These persons devoted 121,465 PYE to NIH grant-supported research. Research project grants each supported 6 full- or part-time positions, on average. Over 20% of positions were occupied by postdoctoral researchers and graduate and undergraduate students. These baseline data were used to project workforce estimates for FYs 2010-2014 and will serve as a foundation for future research.
authors.affiliation: *Office of Extramural Research, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Contracted to the National Institutes of Health through ICF International, Fairfax, Virginia, USA; and Contracted to the National Institutes of Health through Logical Technical Services Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Lindsay R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Pool
authors.affiliation: *Office of Extramural Research, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Contracted to the National Institutes of Health through ICF International, Fairfax, Virginia, USA; and Contracted to the National Institutes of Health through Logical Technical Services Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland, USA riw8@cdc.gov.
authors.forename: Robin M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.affiliation: *Office of Extramural Research, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Contracted to the National Institutes of Health through ICF International, Fairfax, Virginia, USA; and Contracted to the National Institutes of Health through Logical Technical Services Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Lindsey L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Scott
authors.affiliation: *Office of Extramural Research, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Contracted to the National Institutes of Health through ICF International, Fairfax, Virginia, USA; and Contracted to the National Institutes of Health through Logical Technical Services Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Deepshikha
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: RoyChowdhury
authors.affiliation: *Office of Extramural Research, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Contracted to the National Institutes of Health through ICF International, Fairfax, Virginia, USA; and Contracted to the National Institutes of Health through Logical Technical Services Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Rediet
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Berhane
authors.affiliation: *Office of Extramural Research, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Contracted to the National Institutes of Health through ICF International, Fairfax, Virginia, USA; and Contracted to the National Institutes of Health through Logical Technical Services Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: *Office of Extramural Research, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Contracted to the National Institutes of Health through ICF International, Fairfax, Virginia, USA; and Contracted to the National Institutes of Health through Logical Technical Services Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Katrina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pearson
authors.affiliation: *Office of Extramural Research, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Contracted to the National Institutes of Health through ICF International, Fairfax, Virginia, USA; and Contracted to the National Institutes of Health through Logical Technical Services Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Jennifer A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Sutton
authors.affiliation: *Office of Extramural Research, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Contracted to the National Institutes of Health through ICF International, Fairfax, Virginia, USA; and Contracted to the National Institutes of Health through Logical Technical Services Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
authors.forename: Walter T
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Schaffer
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000191:economics*; D005381:Financing, Organized / Q000191:economics*; D006280:Health Workforce / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.) / Q000191:economics*; D012109:Research Support as Topic / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States
keywords: career stage; educational attainment; occupation; personnel age distribution; researcher census