[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 19 (Wednesday, January 29, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5220-5221]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-01480]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Notice To Announce Request for Information To Assist in the 
Development of a New Strategic Plan for the National Institute on 
Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, for 2022-2026

AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication 
Disorders (NIDCD) is in the process of developing a new Strategic Plan 
for 2022-2026 to help guide the research it supports over the next five 
years. Through this Request for Information, NIDCD invites researchers 
in academia and industry, health care professionals, patient advocates 
and health advocacy organizations, scientific or professional 
organizations, Federal agencies, and other interested members of the 
public to provide ideas to inform development of NIDCD's next strategic 
plan.

DATES: The NIDCD's Request for Information is open for public idea 
submission for a period of 60 days. Ideas must be received by March 31, 
2020, to ensure consideration. After the idea submission period has 
closed, NIDCD will consider the ideas we received in a timely manner 
for the development of the 2022-2026 Strategic Plan of the National 
Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

ADDRESSES: Please visit our website to view our questions and submit 
your ideas to NIDCD electronically: https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/about/strategic-plan/2022-2026/2022-2026-nidcd-strategic-planning-process. 
NIDCD will also accept submissions via email 
([email protected]).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Laura K. Cole, Ph.D., Planning and 
Evaluation Officer, Science Policy and Planning Branch, National 
Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH, 31 Center 
Drive, Suite 3C25, Bethesda, MD 20892. Phone: 301-402-2313. Email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is in accordance with the 21st 
Century Cures Act, NIH institutes are required to regularly update 
their strategic plans. The NIDCD's mission is to improve the lives of 
the millions of people with hearing loss and other communication 
disorders, spanning functions of hearing, balance, taste,

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smell, voice, speech, and language. Our vision is that all those with 
disorders in these areas benefit from scientific discovery that informs 
effective and accessible treatments and improves quality of life. To 
get us there, NIDCD is seeking your best ideas to help as we develop 
our 2022-2026 Strategic Plan.

    Dated: January 22, 2020.
Timothy J. Wheeles,
Executive Officer, National Institute on Deafness and Other 
Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health.
[FR Doc. 2020-01480 Filed 1-28-20; 8:45 am]
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