[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 126 (Monday, July 1, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54472-54473]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-14481]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Request for Information (RFI): Inviting Comments and Suggestions 
on an ODS Strategic Plan 2025-2029: A Blueprint for a Coordinated 
Dietary Supplement Research Agenda at NIH

AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, HHS.

ACTION: Request for information.

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SUMMARY: The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of Dietary 
Supplements (ODS) is continuing to use a structured planning process to 
develop its five-year strategic plans. After a new director joined ODS 
in July 2023 a new strategic plan for 2025-2029 was developed titled 
``A Blueprint for a Coordinated Dietary Supplement Research Agenda at 
NIH.'' ODS is committed to engaging its partners and other interested 
parties including representatives of the scientific community, 
industry, other federal agencies, policymakers, and the public in the 
strategic planning process by soliciting their comments on the draft 
ODS Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years (CY) 2025-2029.

DATES: The RFI is open for public comment for a period of 60 days. To 
ensure consideration, comments must be submitted by August 30, 2024.

ADDRESSES: All comments must be submitted electronically to 
[email protected]. You will receive an electronic confirmation 
acknowledging receipt of your response.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Cohen, Ph.D., at 
[email protected] or (301) 435-2920.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice is in accordance with the 21st 
Century Cures Act, wherein NIH institutes are required to regularly 
update their strategic plans. The purpose of the CY 2025-2029 ODS 
Strategic Plan (https://ods.od.nih.gov/

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About/StrategicPlan.aspx) is to communicate how ODS will advance its 
mission to coordinate cutting-edge dietary supplement research across 
NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs) and other federal agencies 
to foster knowledge and optimize health across the lifespan. The plan 
articulates ODS' priorities as follows:
     To coordinate and support dietary supplement research 
focused on biological, population, and product sciences.
     To develop NIH dietary supplement initiatives that 
incorporate rigorous dietary supplement research methods and make best 
use of available NIH funding mechanisms.
     To support ODS programs and develop and disseminate 
dietary supplement research findings and research resources to ODS 
audiences.
    ODS has completed a draft of its Five-Year Strategic Plan for CY 
2025-2029 (https://ods.od.nih.gov/About/StrategicPlan.aspx) and is 
interested in receiving feedback from all interested parties on the 
following:
     Any additional emerging public health issues or knowledge 
gaps that ODS can help address.
     Partnerships NIH should pursue, both inside and outside of 
government, to advance research on dietary supplements.
    ODS encourages organizations to submit a single response reflective 
of the views of the organization as a whole.
    Responses to this RFI are voluntary and may be submitted 
anonymously. 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. NIH will use the information 
submitted in response to this Request for Information (RFI) at its 
discretion. NIH 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 the use of that 
information.
    No basis for claims against the U.S. Government shall arise as a 
result of a response to this RFI or from the Government's use of such 
information. Additionally, the Government cannot guarantee the 
confidentiality of the information provided.

    Dated: June 20, 2024.
Lawrence A. Tabak,
Principal Deputy Director, National Institutes of Health.
[FR Doc. 2024-14481 Filed 6-28-24; 8:45 am]
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