Request for Information on Themes for the NIAMS Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2025-2029

The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) supports research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases; the training of basic and clinical scientists to carry out this research; and the dissemination of information on research progress in these diseases. NIAMS is updating its Strategic Plan to help guide the research, training, and information dissemination programs it supports between fiscal years 2025 through 2029. The new Plan will focus on cross-cutting thematic research opportunities that position the Institute to make a difference in the lives of all Americans.Because public input is a crucial step in this effort, the Institute issued a Request for Information (NOT-AR-22-023) and hosted a meeting attended by approximately 160 researchers, patient representatives, and staff from other Federal entities to gain insight into topics that could be included in the new Strategic Plan.

Through this Request for Information, NIAMS invites feedback from 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 on the Institutes distillation of the input received to date. Professional societies and patient organizations are strongly encouraged to submit a single response that reflects the views of their entire membership.

Please provide your perspective on the following potential cross-cutting themes, examples, and bold aspirations. NIAMS is particularly interested in suggestions for additional or alternative:

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Note: Efforts to identify and reduce health disparities and provide all Americans with equitable access to clinical and epidemiologic studies and healthcare should be considered for NIAMS-funded research projects whenever possible.

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Note: Consistent with the note under Health disparities and health equity, studies of lifestyle factors and environmental exposures should include efforts to identify and reduce health disparities and provide all Americans with equitable access to clinical and epidemiologic studies and healthcare whenever possible.

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Note: Consistent with the note under Health disparities and health equity, clinical and epidemiologic research should include efforts to identify and reduce health disparities and provide all Americans with equitable access to clinical and epidemiologic studies and healthcare whenever possible.

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Note: Training and workforce efforts are essential for the pursuit of all cross-cutting thematic research areas in the new NIAMS Strategic Plan.

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Responses to this RFI must be submitted electronically at https://rfi.grants.nih.gov/?s=654a7bc81e7ccb6f7d03d792.

Responses must be received by Monday, January 1, 2024.

Responses to this RFI are voluntary. Do not include any proprietary, classified, confidential, trade secret, or sensitive information in your response. The responses will be reviewed by NIAMS staff, leadership, and Advisory Council members. Individual feedback will not be provided to any respondent. NIAMS will use the information submitted in response to this RFI at its discretion and will not provide comments to any respondents submission. Respondents are advised that the Government is under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of the information received or provide feedback to respondents with respect to any information submitted.The Government reserves the right to use any submitted information on public NIH 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 information and planning purposes only and shall not be construed as a solicitation, grant, or cooperative agreement, or as an obligation on the part of the Federal Government, the NIH, or individual NIH Institutes and Centers to provide support for any ideas identified in response to it. The Government will not pay for the preparation of any information submitted or for the Governments use of such information. No basis for claims against the U.S. Government shall arise as a result of a response to this request for information or from the Governments use of such information.

We look forward to your input and hope that you will share this RFI document with your colleagues.

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NOT-AR-23-022: Request for Information on Themes for the NIAMS ... - National Institutes of Health (.gov)