Strategies to Enhance NIH-Funded Pediatric Research: Optimizing Child Health (2026)

Chapter: Appendix F: NIH Pediatric Research Consortium Agenda Items

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Suggested Citation: "Appendix F: NIH Pediatric Research Consortium Agenda Items." 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 F

NIH Pediatric Research Consortium Agenda Items

NIH Pediatric Research Consortium Agenda Items, 2020–2024

NOTE: If a topic was discussed multiple times in the same year, it is only listed once. Many discussions were confidential in nature (e.g., potential funding opportunities); in these cases, a discussion of the topic is noted but specifics are omitted.

2024 Meetings

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine study: The Pediatric Subspecialty Workforce and Its Impact on Child Health and Well-Being

Opportunities to Leverage National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet®) Data Resources to Support Patient-Centered Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) in Pediatrics

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Training and Career Development Working Group Recommendations

Using National Institutional Training Programs to Grow Research in a Clinical Specialty

External Feedback on Pediatric Research Training (e.g., report out on meetings with Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs)

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pediatric Research Report

NIH Primary Care Research Network (later called Communities Advancing Research Equity for Health ([CARE]) for Health)

Suggested Citation: "Appendix F: NIH Pediatric Research Consortium Agenda Items." 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.

All of Us Research Program pediatrics update

A New Approach to NICHD Network Clinical Studies: Two Years Later

Pediatric Medical Devices Public–Private Partnerships

Reissue of a funding opportunity (topic redacted)

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Pediatric Research Portfolio

National Academies study: Strategies to Enhance Pediatric Health Research Funded by NIH

Future topic: Including youth voices in research

2023 Meetings

All of Us Research Program pediatrics update

Pediatric Medical Device Subgroup Public–Private Partnership update

Helping to End Addiction Long Term (HEAL) Pediatric Pain concept development

National Cancer Institute (NCI) Childhood Cancer Data Initiative

Surgeon Scientist Funding Across NIH

NIH Clinical Center Pediatric Research Strategic Plan

Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization (RCDC) Pediatric Research Category

Pediatric to Adult Healthcare Transition NOSI (Notice of Special Interest)

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Introduction to Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Support of Research Activities to Improve Children’s Health

Children and Media Research Advancement (CAMRA) Act

Tackling Acquisition of Language in Kids (TALK) Initiative

NIH-wide Maternal and Pediatric Pharmacology subgroup

NIH Maternal and Child Health Collaborations with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Canadian Institute for Health Research-NIH meeting on the Pediatric Impacts of the Pandemic in Canada and the United States

2022 Meetings

Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) updates

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Infectious Diseases

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Pediatric Research Portfolio

HEAL Pediatric Pain concept

Inclusion of Children in Research

NIH Lasker Scholar presentations (pediatric-focused)

Pediatric Provisions in the FY 2022 Omnibus Appropriations

Anticipating the Future of Pediatric Physician–Scientist Training and Development

Suggested Citation: "Appendix F: NIH Pediatric Research Consortium Agenda Items." 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.

NIH Firearms and Violence Research

Social Media and Youth Development/Mental Health

A New Approach to NICHD Network Clinical Studies

AAP Council on Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention

Pediatric Disaster Science

National Academies study updates: Pediatric Subspecialty Workforce and Its Impact on Child Health and Well-Being

2021 Meetings

Lost in Transition (to Adult Healthcare) Workshop follow-up and potential funding opportunity

Shaping and Leveraging the Pediatric Medical Devices Ecosystem

COVID-19 Updates (post-acute sequelae workshop and NIH-wide initiative)

Pediatric Neurological Effects of SARS-CoV-2 Infection

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Pediatric Research Portfolio

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Children’s Health Protection

Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) Return to Schools Initiative

AAP Committee on Pediatric AIDS

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Pediatric Research Portfolio

Pediatric Research in the Clinical Center

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NICCIH) Pediatric Research Portfolio

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Pediatric Research Portfolio

2020 Meetings

Pediatric Training at NIH/Pediatric Training Analysis

Pediatric Research Training Programs (Pediatric Scientist Development Program; Child Health Research Career Development Award)

Pediatric Transition to Adult Healthcare workshop

Science and Technology Research Infrastructure for Discovery, Experimentation, and Sustainability Initiative (STRIDES) initiative; Gabriella Miller Kids First Data in STRIDES

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation meeting recap (Maternal and Child Health subgroup)

NIH Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program

HEAL pediatric research projects

Suggested Citation: "Appendix F: NIH Pediatric Research Consortium Agenda Items." 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.

COVID-19 – Maternal/Child Health subgroup

Inclusion Across the Lifespan II (workshop)

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NICDC) Pediatric Research Portfolio

AAP Committee on Pediatric Research

All of Us Research Program

Workshop updates (Addressing Neuroimaging Challenges Across Populations and Settings; COVID-19 in Pregnancy: Clinical, Research, and Therapeutics Updates; Toward the Use of Buprenorphine in Infants)

Federal Interagency Forum for Child and Family Statistics

NCI Pediatric Research Portfolio

Suggested Citation: "Appendix F: NIH Pediatric Research Consortium Agenda Items." 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 F: NIH Pediatric Research Consortium Agenda Items." 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 F: NIH Pediatric Research Consortium Agenda Items." 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 F: NIH Pediatric Research Consortium Agenda Items." 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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