60470 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 169 / Friday, September 1, 2023 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National 

Institute of Child Health and Human 

Development; Notice of Closed 

Meetings 

Pursuant to section 1009 of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended, notice is hereby given of the 

following meetings. 

The meetings will be closed to the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in sections 

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), title 5 U.S.C., 

as amended. The grant applications and 

the discussions could disclose 

confidential trade secrets or commercial 

property such as patentable material, 

and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the grant 

applications, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: Eunice Kennedy 

Shriver National Institute of Child Health 

and Human Development Initial Review 

Group; Function, Integration, and 

Rehabilitation Sciences Study Section. 

Date: October 3, 2023. 

Time: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institutes of Health, Eunice 

Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child 

Health and Human Development, 6710B 

Rockledge Drive, Room 2125D, Bethesda, MD 

20892 (Virtual Meeting). 

Contact Person: Moushumi Paul, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Scientific Review 

Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National 

Institute of Child Health and Human 

Development, National Institutes of Health, 

6710B Rockledge Drive, Room 2125D, 

Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 496–3596, 

moushumi.paul@nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: Eunice Kennedy 

Shriver National Institute of Child Health 

and Human Development Initial Review 

Group; Reproduction, Andrology, and 

Gynecology Study Section. 

Date: October 26, 2023. 

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: Canopy by Hilton, 940 Rose Avenue, 

North Bethesda, MD 20852. 

Contact Person: Jagpreet Singh Nanda, 

Ph.D., Scientific Review Officer, Scientific 

Review Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver 

National Institute of Child Health and 

Human Development, National Institutes of 

Health, 6710B Rockledge Drive, Room 2121C, 

Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 451–4454, 

jagpreet.nanda@nih.gov. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.865, Research for Mothers 

and Children, National Institutes of Health, 

HHS) 

Dated: August 28, 2023. 

Tyeshia M. Roberson-Curtis, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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BILLING CODE 4140–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

Request for Information (RFI): Inviting 

Comments and Suggestions on 

Updating the NIH Mission Statement 

AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, 

HHS. 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: This Notice is a Request for 

Information (RFI) inviting feedback on a 

proposed update to the National 

Institutes of Health (NIH) mission 

statement. As the largest public funder 

of biomedical and behavioral research 

in the world, NIH works to turn 

scientific discoveries into better health 

for all. This RFI will inform NIH’s 

efforts to update its mission statement to 

ensure that it reflects the NIH mission 

as accurately as possible. Review of this 

entire RFI notice is encouraged to 

ensure your response is comprehensive 

and to have a full understanding of how 

it will be used. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

11:59:59 p.m. (ET) on November 24, 

2023 to ensure consideration. After the 

public comment period has closed, the 

comments received will be considered 

in a timely manner by NIH. 

ADDRESSES: All comments must be 

submitted electronically on the 

submission website at https://

rfi.grants.nih.gov/?s=64caaa8bb

1112e46ad0a1d52. 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 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions about this RFI should be 

directed to Lauren Brodd, Ph.D., Office 

of the Director, National Institutes of 

Health, RFIMissionStatement@nih.gov, 

301–827–5152. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NIH is the 

nation’s medical research agency — 

making important discoveries that 

improve health and save lives. NIH’s 

current mission statement at https://

www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/ 

mission-goals is ‘‘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.’’ 

In 2021, NIH established the Advisory 

Committee to the Director (ACD) 

Working Group on Diversity, Subgroup 

on Individuals with Disabilities (https:// 

www.acd.od.nih.gov/working-groups/ 

disabilitiessubgroup.html) to dedicate 

time and resources to identify strategies 

to support individuals with disabilities. 

The Subgroup issued a report (https://

acd.od.nih.gov/documents/ 

presentations/12092022_WGD_

Disabilities_Subgroup_Report.pdf) in 

December 2022 that contains several 

recommendations, including updating 

the NIH mission statement. The ACD 

adopted the Working Group’s 

recommendations and provided them to 

the NIH Director. The report stated: 

‘‘One immediate action for the NIH to 

support disability inclusion is to remove 

the language of ‘reducing disability’ 

from the NIH mission statement. The 

current mission statement could be 

interpreted as perpetuating ableist 

beliefs that disabled people are flawed 

and need to be ‘fixed’.’’ 

To address this suggestion, NIH 

Leadership committed to evaluate the 

mission statement, particularly 

reviewing the inclusion of the phrase 

‘‘reduce [. . .] disability’’, and to update 

it to better reflect the current and future 

vision for the agency. Following 

discussions among NIH Leadership and 

with NIH subject matter experts, a 

proposed revised mission statement was 

developed. 

Information Requested 

This RFI invites input from interest 

groups throughout the scientific 


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