NIH Office of the Director (OD)

The Office of the Director (OD) is the central office at NIH, responsible for setting policy for NIH and for planning, managing, and coordinating the programs and activities of all the NIH components. NIH OD includes multiple offices and programs that directly support research. (Some OD offices also co-fund research in response to requests from NIH ICOs.) Find details and opportunities for direct funding at:

• All of Us. The mission of the All of Us Research Program is to accelerate health research and medical breakthroughs, enabling individualized prevention, treatment, and care for all of us.
• Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO). The mission of ECHO is to enhance the health of children for generations to come. ECHO investigates how exposure to a range of environmental factors in early development influences the health of children and adolescents.
• INCLUDE (INvestigation of Co-occurring conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndromE) Project. The INCLUDE mission is to investigate conditions that affect individuals with Down syndrome and the general population, such as Alzheimer’s disease/dementia, autism, cataracts, celiac disease, congenital heart disease and diabetes.
• Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS). ODSS provides leadership and coordination on a broad range of NIH-wide data science activities to realize the Agency’s vision for a modernized and integrated biomedical data ecosystem.
• Office of Research Infrastructure Programs (ORIP). ORIP advances the NIH mission to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability.
• Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH). ORWH envisions a world where women receive evidence-based disease prevention and treatment tailored to their own unique needs, circumstances, and goals; women are appropriately represented in clinical research populations; sex is considered at every stage of biomedical research and health care delivery; and all women in scientific career fields are empowered to reach their full potential.
• Office of Strategic Coordination – The Common Fund. The NIH Common Fund supports bold scientific programs that catalyze discovery across all biomedical and behavioral research. Investigators and multiple ICOs collaborate on innovative research expected to address high priority challenges for the NIH as a whole and make a broader impact in the scientific community.