Further Clarifying NIH ’s Foreign Subaward Agreement Policy: Addressing Community Feedback

Michelle Bulls, Director, Office of Policy for Extramural Research Administration (OPERA) Dr. Lawrence Tabak, Acting Director of NIH Today, in response to feedback received from the research community, we are releasing our final guide notice clarifying NIH’s long-standing policy on foreign subaward and consortium written agreements. In the video below, we talk about the origins of this notice, the consideration of and changes made in response to public comment, the final oversight and compliance requirements, and how these efforts will ensure NIH remains a proper steward of taxpayer support. Dr. Lawrence Tabak, Acting Director of NIH, and Ms. Michelle Bulls, Director of the OER Office of Policy for Extramural Research Administration join me in this video. Last June, we published a Notice in the Federal Register. The notice sought public comments on our plans to update the NIH Grants Policy Statement, section 15.2, to require that foreign subrecipients provide copies of all lab notebooks, all data, and all documentation that supports the research outcomes as described in the progress report, to the primary recipient no less than once every six months. This step was taken in response to separate audit recommendations from the HHS Office of Inspector General and Government Accountability Office. We appreciate the many thoughtful comments received (available in the NIH FOIA Reading Room). Based on the feedback, today’s notice modifies the requirements to state...
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