[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 148 (Wednesday, August 3, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47436-47437]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-16546]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


NIH Request for Information (RFI) on NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for 
Research on the Health of Women

AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, HHS.

ACTION: Request for information.

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SUMMARY: The Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is updating 
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Strategic Plan for Research on 
the Health of Women. NIH is publishing this Notice to solicit input 
from the basic, clinical, and translational scientists; advocacy and 
patient communities; and the public on topics under consideration for 
the next strategic plan.

DATES: NIH Request for Information (RFI) on NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for 
Research on the Health of Women is open for public comment through 
September 29, 2022. Comments must be received by September 29, 2022, to 
ensure consideration. Comments received after the public comment period 
has closed may be considered by

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the Office of Research on Women's Health.

ADDRESSES: Submissions must be sent electronically to RFI submission 
website at: https://rfi.grants.nih.gov/?s=62c5e1a9fe640000ed002eb2.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions about this RFI should be 
directed to Juliane Caviston, Ph.D., Office of Research on Women's 
Health, 6707 Democracy Boulevard, Suite 400, Bethesda, MD 20817, 
[email protected], 301-435-0971.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: ORWH was established in the Office of the 
NIH Director by the Public Health Service Act to (a) identify projects 
and multidisciplinary research related to women's health; (b) encourage 
research on sex differences and promote coordination among research 
entities; (c) assist NIH efforts to include women as participants in 
clinical research; and (d) develop opportunities and support for women 
in biomedical careers. These efforts will continue to be part of the 
office's core mission. Please see https://orwh.od.nih.gov/about/mission/ for more on the ORWH mission.
    ORWH is responsible for an NIH-wide strategic plan for research on 
the health of women that promotes allocation of NIH resources for 
conducting and supporting research efforts on the health of women 
across NIH Institutes and Centers. The NIH Strategic Plan for Women's 
Health Research FY 2019-2023 https://orwh.od.nih.gov/sites/orwh/files/docs/ORWH_Strategic_Plan_2019_508C_0.pdf was developed by a 
collaborative group of leaders from the NIH Institutes, Centers, and 
Offices (ICOs); external stakeholders; and the public. The plan 
incorporates the missions of the NIH ICOs with ORWH's mission to pave 
the way toward scientific and workforce efforts that ultimately benefit 
the health and biomedical research careers of women. ORWH is currently 
in the process of updating the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Research on 
the Health of Women. Recent, significant public health events (e.g., 
the COVID pandemic) have had significant effects on the health of 
women. Several topics relevant to the health of women were reviewed by 
the NIH and the NIH Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health 
(ACRWH) in 2021, through the congressionally directed and ORWH-led 
Women's Health Conference https://orwh.od.nih.gov/research/2021-womens-health-research-conference. This required a review of NIH activities to 
identify research opportunities to address maternal mortality and 
morbidity, survival rates of cervical cancer, and chronic and 
debilitating diseases in women. The recommendations that the ACRWH made 
consequent to this conference as well as recent scientific advances; 
new technologies; current health priorities; and feedback from this 
Request for Information will all be considered in the development of 
the next NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Research on the Health of Women to 
help guide future NIH research efforts to improve the health of all 
women throughout the entire life course.

Request for Information

    Please provide your perspective on the following topics:
     Research opportunities in the NIH Strategic Plan for 
Women's Health Research FY 2019-2023 https://orwh.od.nih.gov/sites/orwh/files/docs/ORWH_Strategic_Plan_2019_508C_0.pdf that should be 
modified to account for recent scientific advances.
     Emerging research needs and opportunities that reflect the 
changing landscape of the study of the health of women that should be 
added to the plan.
     Cross-cutting scientific themes (for example, 
multidisciplinary research, and/or utilizing data science, natural 
language processing, and artificial intelligence) or research-related 
themes that should be common to all future strategic goals and 
objectives (such as considerations of sex, gender, and age on health 
and disease, and health disparities).

How To Submit a Response

    All responses should be submitted electronically at the RFI 
submission website at: https://rfi.grants.nih.gov/?s=62c5e1a9fe640000ed002eb2 by 11:59:59 p.m. (ET) on September 29, 
2022. You will see an electronic confirmation acknowledging receipt of 
your response.
    Responses to this RFI are voluntary and may be submitted 
anonymously. You may voluntarily include your name and contact 
information with your response. If you choose to provide NIH with this 
information, NIH will not share your name and contact information 
outside of NIH unless required by law.
    Other than your name and contact information, please do not include 
any personally identifiable information or any information that you do 
not wish to make public. Proprietary, classified, confidential, or 
sensitive information should not be included in your response. The 
Government will use the information submitted in response to this RFI 
at its discretion. Other than your name and contact information, the 
Government reserves the right to use any submitted information on 
public websites, in reports, in summaries of the state of the science, 
in any possible resultant solicitation(s), grant(s), or cooperative 
agreement(s), or in the development of future funding opportunity 
announcements. This RFI is for informational and planning purposes only 
and is not a solicitation for applications or an obligation on the part 
of the Government to provide support for any ideas identified in 
response to it. Please note that the Government will not pay for the 
preparation of any information submitted or for use of that 
information.
    We look forward to your input and hope that you will share this RFI 
opportunity with your colleagues.

    Dated: July 25, 2022.
Tara A. Schwetz,
Acting Principal Deputy Director, National Institutes of Health.
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