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, especially for individuals in disadvantaged and underserved groups.
- Affirms 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.
