NIH Requests Comments on Strategic Plan for Data Science

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued a request for information (RFI) on their draft Strategic Plan for Data Science. As previously reported by COSSA, the NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science was initially released in 2018. The plan is intended to address advances in data collection, including the increase in quantity and diversity within data, and support data science as a tool for understanding health sciences. In the draft, NIH outlines five goals, including aims to improve NIH policy for data collection, maximize data for research, expand opportunities in data collection services, including artificial intelligence (AI), support a federal biomedical research data infrastructure, and strengthen the data science community.

The RFI requests comments on the strategies and implementation tactics of the outlined goals as well as relevant topics that should be explored in the strategic plan. Comments are requested by March 15 and can be submitted here or emailed to strategic-plan-rfi@od.nih.gov.