Notice Number: NOT-HD-19-034
Key Dates
Release Date: October 10, 2019
Issued by
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Purpose
NICHD is committed to providing critical infrastructure support for multisite clinical trials that involve populations of key relevance to our mission (e.g., women, neonates, and children). Most of this support is provided through extramural grants and contracts to networks of clinical sites. The NICHD intramural program also supports infrastructure for multicenter clinical studies, which includes the NIH Clinical Center in Maryland, the NICHD-supported Perinatology Research Branch in Michigan, and networks managed by investigators in the NICHD Division of Intramural Population Health Research. Together, this support has yielded significant public health impact by generating thousands of research publications, training hundreds of professionals in conducting high-quality clinical trials, and directly informing clinical practice guidelines.
The NICHD Strategic Plan 2020 was published in September 2019. It articulates scientific themes, aspirational goals, and priorities for scientific stewardship, management, and accountability. The plan sets out the fundamental components that NICHD will use over the next five years to shape and support science relevant to our mission.
To accomplish many of the scientific priorities noted in the plan, NICHD will continue its commitment to infrastructure support for rigorous multi-site clinical trials, both intramurally and extramurally. To do so, the institute will need to align its efforts with widely accepted principles that are shaping the 21st century scientific landscape of NIH-supported research. These include:
NICHD is actively exploring grant and contract mechanisms that help incorporate these four principles and enhance its strong commitment to multisite clinical trials infrastructure, both intramurally and extramurally. You are encouraged to join NICHD Director, Dr. Diana Bianchi, on November 1st at 2:00 pm EST for an interactive webinar, Strategic Plan 2020 Implementation: NICHD’s vision for multi-site clinical trials infrastructure , which will provide an overview of these issues and an opportunity for questions and comments. Information about accessing the webinar will be posted on the NICHD website.
Inquiries
Please direct all inquiries to:
Caroline Signore, MD, MPH
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Telephone: 301-496-5577
Email: signorec@mail.nih.gov