December’s ACD Meeting—Featuring Bill Gates and Dr. Anthony Fauci

NIH’s Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) held a hybrid meeting on December 8 and 9, 2022. As detailed in its Charter, ACD Members provide recommendations on program development, resource allocation, NIH administrative regulation, and other aspects of NIH policy.

For daily agendas and the full list of meeting materials, check the December 8-9, 2022 section of the ACD Meetings page. Find video recordings of the ACD presentations at:

• Advisory Committee to the Director—December 2022 (Day 1)
• Advisory Committee to the Director—December 2022 (Day 2)

NIAID’s extramural research community may be especially interested in the following topics:

• Perspectives on Current Cooperation with NIH and Priorities for the Future, presented by Bill Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (video begins at 2:03:25 of the Day 1 videocast)
• Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Lessons from COVID-19, presented by Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director (now former), NIAID (video begins at 2:40:50 of the Day 1 videocast)
• Assessing the Public Health Threat of Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection, presented by Dr. Gary Gibbons, Director, NHLBI (video begins at 0:08:45 of the Day 2 videocast)

The meeting also covered the following topics:

• NIH Director’s Report, Budget Update, and Legislative Update
• Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
• Proposed Changes to Peer Review Criteria
• Proposed ACD Novel Alternative Methods Working Group
• Proposed ACD Post-Doc Working Group
• HeLA Genome Data Access Working Group: Data Access Requests
• NIH Efforts in Support of Open Data
• Update from the ACD Working Group on Diversity: Disability Subgroup Report
• Update from the UNITE Initiative