Notice2022-02972
Request for Information (RFI): Inviting Comments and Suggestions on a Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
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February 11, 2022
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Abstract
This Request for Information (RFI) is intended to gather broad public input to assist the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in developing the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA). NIH invites input from stakeholders throughout the scientific research, advocacy, and clinical practice communities, as well as the general public, regarding the proposed framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for DEIA. Organizations are strongly encouraged to submit a single response that reflects the views of their organization and their membership as a whole.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 29 (Friday, February 11, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8023-8024]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-02972]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Request for Information (RFI): Inviting Comments and Suggestions
on a Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Diversity, Equity,
Inclusion, and Accessibility
AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This Request for Information (RFI) is intended to gather broad
public input to assist the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in
developing the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Diversity, Equity,
Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA). NIH invites input from
stakeholders throughout the scientific research, advocacy, and clinical
practice communities, as well as the general public, regarding the
proposed framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for DEIA.
Organizations are strongly encouraged to submit a single response that
reflects the views of their organization and their membership as a
whole.
DATES: This RFI is open for public comment for a period of 60 days.
Comments must be received by 11:59:59 p.m. (ET) on April 3, 2022, to
ensure consideration.
ADDRESSES: All comments must be submitted electronically on the
submission website available at <a href="https://rfi.grants.nih.gov/?s=61e9a09a971100006d005012">https://rfi.grants.nih.gov/?s=61e9a09a971100006d005012</a>.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Please direct all inquiries to: Marina
Volkov, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3e5057564d4a4c5f4a5b59575d4e525f507e515a1050575610595148"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e6888f8e959294879283818f85968a8788a68982c8888f8ec8818990">[email protected]</span></a>, 301-496-4147.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan
for DEIA is to articulate NIH's vision for embracing, integrating, and
strengthening DEIA across all NIH activities to achieve the NIH
mission. The Strategic Plan will capture activities that NIH will
undertake to meet the vision of the Strategic Plan, and will be
organized around accomplishments, needs, opportunities, and challenges
in addressing DEIA in the NIH internal and extramural workforce, its
structure and culture, and the research it supports.
NIH has implemented a range of other initiatives to advance DEIA.
Among them, the UNITE initiative (<a href="https://www.nih.gov/ending-structural-racism/unite">https://www.nih.gov/ending-structural-racism/unite</a>) was established in 2021 to identify and
address structural racism within the NIH-supported and the greater
scientific community. Please note that an RFI on the Draft 2022-2026
Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity (COSWD) Strategic Plan
(<a href="https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-22-054.html">https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-22-054.html</a>)
was released on January 12, 2022 and, therefore, is open for public
comment at the same time as this Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic
Plan for DEIA. You are encouraged to respond to both.
The NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for DEIA is being developed in part as
a response to Report 116-450 on H.R. 7614: Diversity at NIH Working
Group and Strategic Plan, and is responsive to Executive Order 14035
and the Government-Wide Strategic Plan to Advance Diversity, Equity,
Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce (<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/">https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/06/25/executive-order-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-the-federal-workforce/</a>).
The NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for DEIA will highlight NIH's ongoing
and future efforts to foster DEIA within the biomedical and health
research enterprise. The Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for
DEIA, below, articulates NIH's priorities in three key areas
(Objectives): Organizational practices to center and prioritize DEIA
within the workforce; broad efforts to manage and sustain DEIA through
structural and cultural change; and research to promote both workforce
and health equity. These Objectives apply across NIH.
NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for DEIA Framework
Objective 1: Implement Organizational Practices To Center and
Prioritize DEIA in the Workforce
<bullet> NIH Workforce
<bullet> Workforce at Institutions Supported by NIH Funding
Objective 2: Grow and Sustain DEIA Through Structural and Cultural
Change
<bullet> Stewardship
<bullet> Partnerships and Engagements
<bullet> Accountability and Confidence
<bullet> Management and Operations
Objective 3: Advance DEIA Through Research
<bullet> Workforce Research
<bullet> Health Research
The NIH seeks comments on any or all of NIH's priorities across the
three key areas (Objectives) articulated in the framework, including
potential benefits, drawbacks or challenges, and other priority areas
for consideration.
NIH encourages organizations (e.g., patient advocacy groups,
professional organizations) to submit a single response reflective of
the views of the organization or membership 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. The Government will use the
information submitted in response to this RFI at its discretion. The
Government 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 for 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 use of that
information.
We look forward to your input and hope that you will share this RFI
opportunity with your colleagues.
Dated: February 7, 2022.
Tara A. Schwetz,
Acting Principal Deputy Director, National Institutes of Health.
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