How Does NIH Protect Your Privacy?

NIH takes the security and privacy of data of people supported by NIH grants seriously. Some of this information is made public if we make an award—such as name and contact information. That said, other sensitive data are protected from public release, such as your age, gender, and race/ethnicity. If you have ever wondered how NIH protects these data, then take a few minutes and listen to the discussion on a new All About Grants podcast (MP3 / Transcript). You will hear about the federal Privacy Act; what NIH considers sensitive and non-sensitive data on grantees, applicants, investigators, and trainees; as well as what may be released publicly. Keywords: Privacy, Personally Identifiable Information, Administrative Data, Security