Open Enrollment for the NIH Leave Bank has started and runs until Dec. 23. The membership period will begin on Jan. 11, 2026.

The Leave Bank is a pooled bank of donated annual and restored annual leave available to eligible members. It acts like a safeguard for your paycheck and amounts to paid leave for members who have exhausted all of their own sick and annual leave and are affected by a personal or family medical emergency.

NIH’s Fogarty International Center welcomed its trainees from across the U.S. and the world in July. The group gathered at a hotel near NIH’s campus in Bethesda for a weeklong orientation of Fogarty’s Launching Future Leaders in Global Health (LAUNCH) Research Training Program.

LAUNCH supports one-year mentored research training opportunities for U.S. and international scholars at biomedical research institutions and established project sites in low- and middle-income countries.

On Oct. 15-16, NIH will host a conference on Research and Innovation Translation Partnerships in Point-of-Care Technologies and Digital Health. The event will feature keynote talks, panel discussions, forums, e-poster sessions and a technology showcase.

The conference will feature technical tracks in the areas of heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, sleep disorders, cancer, infectious diseases and maternal and pediatric health.