Request for Information (RFI): Increasing the diversity of applications to the NIH Common Fund High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program

The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to solicit information from the broad community about factors that lead to underrepresentation of certain groups in the applicant pool of the Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program and approaches that the NIH might take to increase applicant diversity.

NIH seeks input from the broad scientific community on factors that may limit or discourage applications from certain groups or institutions and approaches that might be taken to increase the application diversity to the Common Fund’s HRHR Program. Topics that could be addressed include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Factors that may limit or discourage applications from:
  • Women
  • Underrepresented groups
  • Geographically diverse institutions
  • Clinical and/or behavioral/social science investigators
• Approaches to increase the number of applications to the HRHR program as a whole or to particular HRHR initiatives from:
  • Women
  • Underrepresented groups
  • Geographically diverse institutions
  • Clinical and/or behavioral/social science investigators 

Deadline for submission: January 15th, 2020

For more information see the announcement