Announcements  Director's Message from Helene M. Langevin, M.D.
January 24, 2024 Each year at this time, I like to look forward to the coming year at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) and review the year that just ended. This type of reflection is particularly appropriate now because 2024 is NCCIHs 25th anniversary yeara great time to celebrate progress in integrative health research and consider directions for the future. |
 Emmeline Edwards, Ph.D.
January 18, 2024 I hope to see you at the in-person2024 International Congress on Integrative Medicine and Health (ICIMH)in Cleveland, Ohio, fromApril 9 through April 13, 2024.As a member of the program committee for the Congress, I can tell you that we have a wonderful agenda planned, with an emphasis on one of the major challenges for our fieldmoving integrative health care strategies into mainstream care. |
The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeks to identify an outstanding Staff Scientist 1 to be the facility head to lead activities, supervise staff, and manage the budgetof the NIH Pain Research Center (PRC).The facility head will have the opportunity to do independent research as well as collaborate and facilitate research with other investigators. The PRC is part of the NCCIH Division of Intramural Research (DIR), which conducts basic, translational, and clinical research to improve our understanding of the mechanisms of pain processing and modulation of pain. The PRC is housed within the NIH Clinical Center, the nations largest hospital devoted entirely to clinical research. The PRC collects a wide range of measures related to human pain experience, including deep phenotyping of pain presentation and responses to pain therapies, brain imaging, genomics, and metabolomics. The PRC serves as a research, training, and diagnostic hub for intramural investigators to study and advance our knowledge of pain and pain mechanisms. The application deadline is March 4, 2024. Resources for Researchers Diversity Resources Upcoming Events  January 25, 2024, 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. ET; Virtual Please join us for a preapplication technical assistance webinar regarding the notice of funding opportunity,RFA-AT-24-006: Resource Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed).The webinar will provide potential grant applicantswith an overview and address questions from the scientific community on applications for aResource Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research.The webinar will feature highlights of application considerations from program staff at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) and three other partnering National Institutes of Health Institutes and Centers. It will also include a presentation on review requirements from NCCIHs Office of Scientific Review. Registration is required. |
January 31, 2024, 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. ET Do you have questions on the latest NIH grants policy updates? We're kicking off 2024 with an opportunity to hear what's new and in development within NIH programs and policies. Join compliance and system policy experts from the NIH Office of Policy for Extramural Research Administration (OPERA) for the latest policy updates and how your institutions may be impacted. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions about new and existing policies during the live Q&A. March 10-12, 2024, 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. ET; Virtual The 2024 Annual Emotional Well-Being (EWB) Investigator Meeting will take place on March 18, 2024. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) welcomes researchers and the public to attend the livestreamed open session to learn about six research networksand their efforts in advancing the science of EWB and to discuss remaining research gaps and opportunities. In addition, Eric Garland, Ph.D., will present the keynote speech Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement Builds Emotional Well-Being by Restructuring Reward, Meaning, and Self. There will be ample time for participants to submit questions to the speakers. View the agenda and register. | 
