Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Archiving and Documenting Child Health and Human Development Data Sets (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

Key Dates

• January 9, 2023 - Archiving and Documenting Child Health and Human Development Data Sets (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed). See NOFO PAR-22-261. 
• November, 15, 2019 - Archiving and Documenting Child Health and Human Development Data Sets (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed). See NOFO PAR-20-064.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) intends to publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to solicit applications to support the archiving and documentation of existing data sets within the scientific mission of the NICHD in order to enable secondary analysis of these data by the scientific community. The highest priority is to archive original data collected with NICHD funding. This Notice is being provided to allow potential applicants sufficient time to develop meaningful collaborations and responsive projects. 

 The NOFO is expected to be published in July 2024 with an expected application due date in October 2024.

This NOFO will utilize the R03 activity code. Details of the planned NOFO are provided below.

Specific Areas of Interest

Examples of activities encouraged by this NOFO include, but are not limited to:

• Archiving data from completed clinical trials, including NICHD clinical networks
• Archiving and developing population health, socio-behavioral, and/or demographic data that conform to international standards for data documentation, including adequate descriptions of metadata and searchable instruments for public use
• Cleaning and archiving existing clinical data
• Harmonizing data and measures across multiple data sets
• Enhancement of existing data resources to facilitate use
• Creating data sets that can be made available to the general scientific community from restricted access data that cannot be made publicly accessible because they include identifying or sensitive information. Examples include creating synthetic data and/or constructing de-identified non-sensitive versions of variables
• Data/results of preliminary/exploratory studies that have not previously been made publicly available
• Archiving data from awards active in FY24 or earlier that plan to submit competing continuations

Applications should propose archiving activities for existing data that are within the scientific mission of NICHD. 

Non-Responsiveness

The following activities will be considered non-responsive:

• Support for free-standing archives or specialty data collections
• Archiving data that are not within the scientific mission of NICHD
• Archiving data for which data collection is not complete at the time of application
• Archiving data to meet the data sharing requirement for grant applications submitted to NIH for the January 25, 2023 and subsequent receipt dates

Funding Information

Public/State Controlled Institution of Higher Education
Private Institution of Higher Education
Nonprofit with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institution of Higher Education)
Small Business
For-Profit Organization (Other than Small Business)
State Government
Indian/Native American Tribal Government (Federally Recognized)
County governments
Independent school districts
Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
Indian/Native American Tribally Designated Organization (Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
U.S. Territory or Possession
Indian/Native American Tribal Government (Other than Federally Recognized)
Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entity (Foreign Organization)
Regional Organization

Applications are not being solicited at this time. 

Inquiries

Please direct all inquiries to:

Susan Jekielek, Ph.D. 
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Email: susan.jekielek@nih.gov