The NIH-Wide Strategic Plan emphasizes that NIH has a responsibility to uphold public trust and confidence in its work. NIEHS will build upon its long history of community-engaged research, as well as meet emerging needs related to ensuring public trust, through the following approaches:
- Engage with communities to enhance public understanding of NIEHS-supported research and research programs.
- Ensure that our efforts to build data infrastructure for collecting and integrating environmental health data include capabilities to ensure research participant privacy and patient privacy.
- Affirm the NIH-wide commitment to upholding the highest quality science through efforts to enhance transparency, research ethics, scientific rigor in experimental design and conduct, and reproducibility of scientific research findings.
Other Strategic Plan Sections
Crosscutting Themes
NIEHS is committed to collaborations and partnerships across its endeavors to successfully contribute to the critical work of NIEHS.
Research Areas of Emphasis
NIEHS will conduct high-quality, innovative environmental health sciences research on the effects of the environment on biological systems and processes.
Capacity and Infrastructure
NIEHS research activities depend on robust investments in capacity and infrastructure to ensure readiness for their success.