Strategies to Enhance NIH-Funded Pediatric Research: Optimizing Child Health (2026)
Chapter: Appendix C: Calls for Perspectives Questions
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"Appendix C: Calls for Perspectives Questions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Strategies to Enhance NIH-Funded Pediatric Research: Optimizing Child Health. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/29346.
Appendix C
Calls for Perspectives Questions
CALL FOR PERSPECTIVES: QUESTIONS FOR RESEARCH FUNDING APPLICANTS
The committee developed a list of questions for research funding applicants designed to offer some illustrative examples and perspectives on the funding application process. The questions were posted in April 2025 and listed until July 25, 2025, and distributed widely via National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine listservs and social media and other email distribution lists relevant to pediatric health researchers.
- Please describe your relationship and experience with NIH in terms of the research you conduct, including the type of grants you have applied for and/or received, from which institute(s) or center(s), and how long you have been receiving them. Please avoid sharing details that might identify you.
- If you have received funding that was from multiple ICs or part of a trans-NIH initiative, please describe in further detail. Additionally, if you have worked with the NIH Pediatric Research Consortium (NPeRC), please describe how it supported pediatric research or how it may yet be used to do so. Please avoid sharing details that may identify you.
- What do you consider to be the most significant structural or process impediments to securing NIH funding for pediatric research? How could the NIH streamline the grant application and review
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix C: Calls for Perspectives Questions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Strategies to Enhance NIH-Funded Pediatric Research: Optimizing Child Health. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/29346.
- process to better support pediatric researchers? Please avoid sharing details that might identify you.
- Are there unique challenges faced by early-career investigators specializing in pediatric research that you have personally faced or witnessed? Please avoid sharing details that might identify you.
- What administrative and review processes could NIH change to facilitate extramural research, while maintaining accountability and oversight? Are there existing processes that have been successful that could be replicated elsewhere? What can NIH do to respond quickly with necessary funding to emerging pediatric issues (for example, Zika virus and microcephaly)?
- Are there NIH funding mechanisms or RFAs that should be adjusted or created to better support pediatric research?
- Are there particular basic or applied research areas, for which pediatric research has been or is being relatively overlooked and underfunded? Are there basic or applied research areas for which pediatric research has been overly concentrated? If so, please comment on the implications.
- What do you believe are the successful ways NIH has engaged with the pediatric research community to establish research priorities? What have been unsuccessful ways?
- Please comment on any challenges or opportunities related to conducting research on disorders or risk factors that originate in childhood but involve participants who are outside the pediatric range.
- Please share any additional information relevant to the statement of task that you would like the committee to consider. Please avoid sharing details that might identify you.
CALL FOR PERSPECTIVES: QUESTIONS FOR RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS AND THEIR FAMILIES
The committee also developed a list of questions for individuals and families of individuals who had participated in National Institutes of Health–funded pediatric research which was designed to offer some illustrative examples and perspectives on the funding application process. The questions were posted in May 2025 and listed until July 25, 2025, and distributed widely via National Academies listservs and social media and other email distribution lists relevant those who may have participated in such research.
- Please describe how NIH funding has been important in supporting pediatric research.
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix C: Calls for Perspectives Questions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Strategies to Enhance NIH-Funded Pediatric Research: Optimizing Child Health. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/29346.
- What has been your experience with NIH-funded pediatric research?
- Please provide personal examples of how NIH research funding has improved child health care, child health, and child well-being.
- What benefits do you see in participating in NIH-funded pediatric research?
- What concerns, if any, do you have about NIH-funded research directly involving children?
- If you have any additional thoughts, stories, or ideas you would like to share about the impact of pediatric research, please feel free to do so below.
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix C: Calls for Perspectives Questions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Strategies to Enhance NIH-Funded Pediatric Research: Optimizing Child Health. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/29346.
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Suggested Citation:
"Appendix C: Calls for Perspectives Questions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Strategies to Enhance NIH-Funded Pediatric Research: Optimizing Child Health. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/29346.
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix C: Calls for Perspectives Questions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Strategies to Enhance NIH-Funded Pediatric Research: Optimizing Child Health. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/29346.
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix C: Calls for Perspectives Questions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Strategies to Enhance NIH-Funded Pediatric Research: Optimizing Child Health. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/29346.
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix C: Calls for Perspectives Questions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2026. Strategies to Enhance NIH-Funded Pediatric Research: Optimizing Child Health. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/29346.
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