Human studies represent a major ongoing investment for NIEHS. Specific attention will be given to our ability to manage the valuable information collected through past and current studies and to ascertain and address the barriers preventing robust development of specialized new studies.
- Expand support for maintaining cohorts and specimen repositories that can be leveraged for future research projects.
- Bring environmental exposure analyses into existing human studies that currently are not collecting this type of data.
- Ensure research promotes health across the lifespan and for all people, including consideration of women’s health and sex as a biological variable, where scientifically applicable.
- Facilitate data sharing and maintain regulatory and ethical standards for the management of, and access to, biospecimens.
- Provide infrastructure for assisting community-engaged research.
- Provide support for initiation of specialized human and community-engaged studies.
- Promote inclusion of diverse viewpoints, especially those of affected communities and populations, in research design.
