The second column reflects the fields included on the NSF/NIH survey of graduate students and post doctorates in science and engineering. The CEC adopted this list as an initial guide and proposed to the ESC an expanded list of majors for inclusion on the undergraduate biomedical major definition for the DPC. This definition will drive the sampling and therefore have an impact on the data that makes up the CWEP. The ESC discussed the pros and cons of different inclusions and exclusions during the March 21, 2016 meeting. The ESC representative for each site was prompted to respond with feedback and/or requests for additional majors that they believed better reflected the trainees and the definition of biomedical science according to the RFA. The third column reflects the majors proposed by the ESC (based on the feedback received up to October 10, 2016) to make up the DPC definition of undergraduate biomedical majors. Political Science, alike other non biomedically defined majors, will be excluded from this list because students in those majors will not be sampled as part of the DPC CWEP. However, each program has the flexibility to include students in majors not defined here with the understanding that NIH/NIGMS will be looking for an explanation of why trainees under those non biomedical majors were supported as part of the initiative. For example, Political Science will not be considered a biomedical major (this means students in Political Science will not be sampled systematically as part of the CWEP) but it could be true that a student focusing on health policy might be supported under the initiative. The NIH/NIGMS program officers will provide more guidance to the DPC on their expectations for sites that fund students whose major is not on the list. Per the ESC meeting October 12th, 2016 (during the 2016 DPC Annual Meeting) the majors on the table above were approved and the only change to the previous version was the addition of Social Work. Note that the majors highlighted in yellow are majors that were not originally included on the NSF/NIH survey but will be included on the DPC definition of biomedical majors.