With input from our scientists, FABBS responds to requests from federal agencies and committees seeking input on a variety of policies, procedures, and guidelines which affect the conduct of research in our sciences.
FABBS Criteria and Process for Reviewing or Drafting Sign-on Letters and Policy Statements
- FABBS Comments on NSF Merit Review RFI (9/20/2024)
- FABBS Responds to RFI on NIA’s Strategic Directions for Research (9/13/2024)
- FABBS Responds to RFI on NIH Draft Public Access Policy (8/19/2024)
- FABBS Responds to E&C NIH Framework (8/16/2024)
- Letter to AAU Membership Committee (8/9/2024)
- FABBS Responds to NIAMS RFI on Strategic Plan ‘submitted through a portal’ (8/7/2024)
- FABBS Comments on NIMH 2024 Strategic Plan for Research (7/24/ 2024)
- Community Sign on Letter to NIMH Director Search Committee (7/10/2024)
- FABBS Response to NIH RFI: Improving research frameworks to enable rigorous study of the effects of racism on brain and behavioral health across the lifespan (6/14/2024)
- FABBS Response: RFI on the strategic plan for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) NOT-AI-24-032 (5/27/2024)
- FABBS Comments on HEROES Draft Program Solicitation (2/20/2024)
- Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research Letter Opposing HR 5894 (11/14/2023)
- CHF Statement on House’s Spending Cuts for FY25 FY24 in Proposed Labor-H Bill (11/13/2023)
- FABBS Comments on ACF’s Revised Handbook (11/6/2023)
- CNSF Letter to OMB and OSTP on NSF Funding for FY25 (11/3/2023)
- FABBS Response to Senator Cassidy (R-LA) on Modernizing the NIH (10/27/23)
- FABBS Response to TIP Roadmap RFI (7/27/23)
- FABBS and the NIH’s Expanding Definition of a Clinical Trial (6/1/23)
- FABBS Response to OMB RFI on Race and Ethnicity Standards in Data (4/27/23)
- FABBS Response to NIH Review Framework RFI (3/6/23)
- FABBS Response to OSTP RFI on Clinical Research Infrastructure and Emergency Clinical Trials (1/27/23)
- Community Letter Response to OSTP RFI on Federal Evidence Agenda on LGBTQI+ Equity (10/3/22) (10/3/22)
- FABBS Response to NINDS Request for Information on Advancing Research in Fundamental Neuroscience (FN) (9/1/22)
- FABBS Nominations to Designated Degree Programs for F-1 Visas (Developmental and Adolescent Psychology, General Psychology) (8/4/22)
- Community Letter on Gun Violence Research (6/10/22)
- Community Support for NIH Animal Models (6/13/22)
- FABBS Response to HHS RFI on Health Misinformation (5/2/22)
- Community Letter on Key Qualities of an Incoming NIH Director (3/2/22)
- CNSF Letter to Congressional Leaders on Conference and Authorization (11/23/21)
- CNSF Letter to OMB and OSTP on Administration’s R&D Priorities (11/5/21)
- Science and Technology Action Committee letter urging action on NSF Reauthorization (11/3/21)
- Friends of NIMH Comments to OSTP on the proposed ARPA-H (8/16/21)
- Community Letter to OSTP and NIH on integration of behavioral sciences in proposed ARPA-H (9/29/21)
- Response to Social Determinants of Health Caucus RFI (10/1/21)
- Response to OSTP on federal scientific integrity and building public trust in science (7/28/21)
- Memo to OSTP supporting federal scientific integrity and capacity (10/23/20)
- Coalition for National Science Funding emergency supplemental appropriations request (1/27/21)
- Friends of IES emergency supplemental appropriations request (2/5/21)
- Friends of IES request to create and fund a School Pulse Survey (2/1/21)
- FABBS Input to NSF Regarding COVID19 Funding (4/13/20)
- Friends of NICHD letter to Labor-HHS Subcommittees (4/23/20)
- FABBS Letter of Congratulations to Newly-Appointed OSTP Director Dr. Arati Prabhakar (10/27/22)
- FABBS Comments on NIDCD Draft 2022-2027 Strategic Plan (3/14/22)
- FABBS Response to RFI on Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Aggression
- FABBS Comments on NIH Climate Change and Health RFI (9/17/21)
- FABBS Comments on NIH UNITE Initative (4/23/21)
- FABBS Comments on NSF 2022-2026 Strategic Plan (2/10/21)
- FABBS Comments to NIMH on Mental Health Outcomes Among Minority and Health Disparities Populations (12/11/20)
- FABBS Comments on Modernization of Clinical Trials (3/26/20)
- Response to Joint Committee on the Research Environment (JCORE) regarding the American Research Environment (1/28/20)
- FABBS and CAAPS Comments on NIMH Strategic Plan (1/3/20)
- FABBS Comments to NIMH on the RDoC initiative (6/21/19)
- FABBS Comments on NICHD Strategic Plan (2/15/19)
