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NIH Onboarding
Amara Okafor
Incoming Fellow · NIAID
AO
CIT · OITSM · cross-IC oversight

Onboarding performance

Cycle time, bottlenecks, and termination risk across the 27 ICs.

Active cases
312
Median sponsorship → badge
31d
NIH-wide median, 30-day trailing
At termination risk
6
≥90 days since sponsorship
Terminated YTD
41
Auto-killed at day 120; required full re-entry
Anomaly detection
Analyzing IC performance…

Median cycle time by IC

Days from sponsorship to badge authorization. NIH median shown as reference line.

Time-in-stage by IC

Median days per stage. Darker = slower. NIMH × Prescreening hot at 19 days vs ~10 NIH-wide.

SponsorshipDISPrescreeningBadgeBadgeAdjudication
NCI
2
6
10
5
3
3
NIAID
2
7
11
5
3
3
NHLBI
2
6
9
5
3
3
NLM
2
6
10
5
3
4
NIMH
3
8
19
7
3
4
NIDDK
2
6
11
5
3
3