NIH’s Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) held its most recent meeting on June 8 and 9, 2023. 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 June 8-9, 2023 section of the ACD Meetings page. Find video recordings of the ACD presentations at:
- Advisory Committee to the Director—June 2023 (Day 1)
- Advisory Committee to the Director—June 2023 (Day 2)
NIAID’s extramural research community may be especially interested in the following topics:
- Addressing the Public Health Threat of Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection—NIH RECOVER Initiative, presented by Dr. Gary Gibbons, Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (video begins at 4:16:05 of the Day 1 videocast)
- NIH-Wide Collaborative Initiative on Climate Change and Health, presented by Dr. Rick Woychik, Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (video begins at 1:39:20 of the Day 2 videocast)
- Re-envisioning NIH-Supported Postdoctoral Training, presented by Dr. Shelley Berger, University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Tara Schwetz, Acting Principal Deputy Director (video begins at 3:18:10 of the Day 2 videocast)
- NIH Public Access Plan, presented by Dr. Lyric Jorgenson, NIH Acting Associate Director for Science Policy (video begins at 1:17:05 of the Day 1 videocast)
The meeting also covered the following topics:
- NIH Director's Report, Legislative Update, Budget Update
- Clinical Trial Stewardship
- Cancer Moonshot
- Addressing the Mental Health Crisis Through Research
- The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
- Accessibility Update
- HeLA Genome Data Access Working Group: Data Access Requests
The next ACD meeting will be held December 14 and 15, 2023. Monitor the ACD Meetings page for updates (i.e., agenda and videocast links).