That reporting research in a timely and transparent way meets the public's needs, and ideally, in this context, can continue to increase trust in the clinical research enterprise.
One thing that continues to be sort of the strength of the COVID response here at NIH, is it has really continued to reinforce the benefits of having a comprehensive registration and results system available. Because research institutions were facing many challenges at the beginning of the pandemic, we responded to as many of those questions as we could through this Top Questions document that continues to be available. We have on, through what we’re calling the beta views, you can look at information based on location, funder, and the types of information being evaluated. We also made available some different ways to look at the COVID-related research. And I’m happy to confirm that we are continuing to meet those targets and goals. We have been processing new registration study records within two business days and we have been expediting the review of results information that's been submitted, that's been happening within one week. We are also dedicated to ensuring we are getting information out as quickly as possible, really fulfilling our commitment to those who have taken the time to provide that information in a timely manner. We also helped to make available other information, other studies listed on the WHO's portal to give broader access to that information. We have made nearly 5,000 study records available on that are related to COVID-19.
I want to continue to touch base on the ways that we are serving the efforts related to responding to the pandemic. In terms of program updates, we continue to have COVID-19 really serving front and center here at NIH, and of course, across the world. We will be coming back to polling, so hopefully that was easy to use and we will get on with the discussion.
It looks like we have folks from all over, so thank you for joining us. That's where I'm located so it's nice to be with you today. The majority of folks are joining from the eastern time zone. Most folks have answered so I will be closing the poll in just a few seconds. We are interested in where folks are from, from around the world. We hope we have folks from Hawaii and Alaska joining us, you can also indicate “other”. We’re curious, what time zone are you joining from today? We identified eastern time, central time, mountain time, pacific time, as well as Greenwich meantime and central Europe time. We do plan to use some polling today to better get to know the audience that we have with us, so we would like to start out with what we would call a warm-up poll. Ideally, you will get a better understanding of expectations for what's ahead with the modernization effort. And to provide insights into some of the aspects of modernization that you haven't really been able to see since the last time that we came together. I want to take some time to reflect on the progress we made to date, which has really been with the effort of many of the people who are tuning in to today's webinar. The majority of the time will be dedicated to talking about modernization. As always, I just want to provide a few brief updates about the program at the beginning. So today is really the perfect opportunity to catch you up on what we have been doing. It has been a while since we had a chance to provide a broad update on the modernization effort. And thank you, Anna, so much for the introduction. I will turn it over to our main speaker, Acting Director of, Dr. We will take your questions and address them as time permits at the end of Dr. Please use the questions feature to submit your questions throughout the presentation. You will note that the chat feature is disabled. The recording and slides will be available within a few weeks. This webinar will be recorded, and all attendees will be muted throughout the presentation. I’m Anna Fine, the Assistant Director of, I will serve as one of your moderators for today.
Rebecca Williams, Acting Director of provided an update on the progress of the modernization effort and opportunity on how to volunteer to provide user feedback.