| | May 2025Updates from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Disease Prevention (ODP), including upcoming events, funding opportunities, and resources to help you conduct high-quality prevention research.
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Announcing the 2025 ODP Early Stage Investigator Lecture Awardees |
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It is my great pleasure to announce our 2025 Early Stage Investigator Lecture awardees: Drs. Nilay S. Shah, Julia Chen-Sankey, and Michael Fang. They will give their lectures on June 4, 5, and 6, respectively. I invite you to join us for each of the three lectures to hear about their exciting work. This award is given annually to early career prevention scientists who have made outstanding research contributions to their fields and are poised to become future leaders in prevention research. We received many strong nominations from impressive investigators, and we thank everyone who applied. Congratulations to Drs. Shah, Chen-Sankey, and Fang on their well-earned awards! |
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New Deadline! The Quit & Thrive Challenge: Community-Derived Solutions to Reduce Menthol Cigarette Smoking
ODP's Quit & Thrive Challenge: Community-Derived Solutions to Reduce Menthol Cigarette Smoking has a new deadline! Submissions are now due by September 2, 2025, 11:59 p.m. ET. We are seeking submissions from local and state organizations and agencies highlighting their community-driven solutions that have reduced menthol cigarette smoking among populations with high rates of use. ODP will award up to nine prizes of $100,000 each to organizations with the most successful and innovative community-led strategies. These solutions may help inform future federally funded research initiatives or demonstration projects to enhance the evidence base of interventions to help people quit smoking, with a special emphasis on menthol cigarettes. A pre-submission informational video and answers to FAQs are available on the ODP website. |
Annual Survey Results: NIH Research Activities Helping Fill Evidence Gaps for Clinical Preventive Services
The results from ODP’s 2024 I Statement Reporting Survey are now available! Each year, ODP conducts the survey to collect information about current NIH activities that are addressing research needs and gaps identified in U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) insufficient evidence (I) statements. Researchers can use the survey results to review NIH activities related to addressing the I statements and identify opportunities for investigator-initiated activities. The USPSTF, an independent panel of experts, publishes I statements when it is not possible to make a recommendation about the benefits or harms of a service because the scientific evidence is lacking, of poor quality, or conflicting. NIH’s long-standing partnership with the USPSTF has been instrumental in strengthening the evidence base and helping change I statements to graded recommendations on the use of clinical preventive services such as screenings, counseling, and medications. |
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Youth Compendium of Physical Activities
National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research A list of 196 common activities in which youth participate and the estimated energy cost associated with each activity. The compendium can be used in a variety of ways, including for research, public health policymaking, education, and interventions to encourage physical activity in youth. The website includes fact sheets for classroom and physical education teachers, as well as for public health practitioners. stopbullying.gov
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Resources to prevent, identify, and respond to bullying and cyberbullying among youth, including training guides for schools, information about state laws and policies, and research resources. Dietary Guidelines for Americans
HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Published every 5 years, the Dietary Guidelines reflect the current body of nutrition science and help Americans make healthy food and beverage choices and serve as the foundation for vital nutrition policies and programs across the United States. |
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ODP Events2025 ODP Early Stage Investigator Lectures |
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Recent WebinarsUpdates to the NIH Research Methods Resources websiteThe individually randomized group treatment (IRGT) trial information and sample size calculator on the NIH Research Methods Resources website has been updated to reflect recent developments in IRGT trial design, including nesting structures and multiple membership. FDA and NIH Announce Innovative Joint Nutrition Regulatory Science ProgramThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and NIH announced a new, joint innovative research initiative that will implement and accelerate a comprehensive nutrition research agenda that will provide critical information to inform effective food and nutrition policy actions to help make Americans’ food and diets healthier. The initiative will aim to answer questions such as: - How and why can ultra-processed foods harm people’s health?
- How might certain food additives affect metabolic health and possibly contribute to chronic disease?
- What is the role of maternal and infant dietary exposures on health outcomes across the lifespan, including autoimmune diseases?
“The FDA is focusing resources on the greatest contributors to the staggering health care crisis: chronic diseases,” said FDA Commissioner Martin A. Makary, M.D., M.P.H, “Mirroring the highly successful FDA and NIH Tobacco Regulatory Science Program, we’re bringing together scientific expertise from both agencies to transform nutrition and food-related research.” New Implementation Date for the 2024 NIH Public Access PolicyThe 2024 Public Access Policy, originally slated to go into effect on December 31, 2025, will now be effective for manuscripts accepted for publication on or after July 1, 2025. Updated NIH Processes for No-Cost ExtensionsNIH has temporarily disabled the No-Cost Extension (NCE) functionality in eRA Commons. As of May 7, 2025, all requests for NCEs must be submitted as a prior approval request in eRA Commons for NIH review and approval. Updated NIH Policy on Foreign SubawardsNIH will be implementing a new award structure by September 30, 2025, that will prohibit foreign subawards from being nested under the parent grant. This new award structure will include a prime with independent awards that are linked to the prime that will allow NIH to track the project’s funds individually, while scientific progress will be reported collectively by the primary institution via the Research Performance Progress Report. Until this new structure is in place, NIH will not issue awards to domestic or foreign entities (new, renewal or non-competing continuation), that include a subaward to a foreign entity. |
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Staff PublicationsLife expectancy by county and educational attainment in the USA, 2000-19: an observational analysis
Sylte D, Baumann M, Kelly Y, Kendrick P, Ali OMM, Compton K, Schmidt CA, Kahn E, Li Z, La Motte-Kerr W, Daoud F, Gakidou E, Hay SI, Strassle PD, Mensah GA, Murray DM, Arias E, George SM, Pérez-Stable EJ, Murray CJL, Mokdad AH, Dwyer-Lindgren L. The Lancet Public Health. 2025 Feb;10(2):e136-e147. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00303-7. Epub 2025 Jan 23. Erratum in: The Lancet Public Health. 2025 Mar;10(3):e171. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(25)00034-9. PMID: 39864447; PMCID: PMC11922296. Improving the design and analytic methods used in NIH-funded clinical trials involving behavioral interventions
Murray DM, Simoni JM. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 2025 Jan 4;59(1):kaaf026. doi: 10.1093/abm/kaaf026. PMID: 40257118. |
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