NIDA Seeking Comments on 2021-2025 Strategic Plan
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking stakeholder feedback on the draft version of its upcoming 2021-2025 Strategic Plan. The strategic plan is intended to guide the agency’s research priorities for the next five years by outlining cross-cutting research topics and approaches. NIDA’s draft strategic plan highlights several research topics that are relevant to the social and behavioral science community, including:
- Identifying and developing approaches to reduce stigma,
- Identifying and developing approaches to reduce health disparities,
- Understanding differences based on sex and gender, and
- Understanding interactions between substance use, HIV, and other conditions such as COVID-19.
Stakeholder feedback will be accepted through August 7, 2020. More information and the draft strategic plan is available on the NIH website.