This National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Request for Information (RFI, NOT-ES-16-001) seeks input on the draft framework from environmental health researchers from both the intramural and extramural perspectives, community partners who work on environmental health science projects, as well as health care workers, clinicians, regulators, and policy makers. This RFI also seeks input from those who have experience with creating translational research frameworks and analyzing research using these frameworks, including individuals involved with, for example, the National Institute of Health (NIH) Clinical Translation Science Awards (CTSA). Responses are due by October 30, 2016.
Feedback received will be used to further inform and finalize the framework. The Division of Extramural Research and Training at the NIEHS recognizes the need for a translational research framework that 1) represents the full spectrum of the research NIEHS grantees conduct, 2) captures all the nuances of environmental health research, especially at the more “basic” end of the research spectrum, 3) provides a common language for describing translational research in the environmental health sciences, and 4) promotes the telling of translational research stories in progress reports and other research documents. For additional information, please refer to the RFI.