The 2024 NIH Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) officially started on Sept. 1 and ends on Jan. 15. The Clinical Center (CC) is this year’s lead institute.

NIH’s Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) will host the inaugural EDI Forum, “Unity in Diversity: Building a Stronger NIH Community through DEIA,” on Tuesday, Oct. 8 from 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET and Wednesday, Oct. 9 from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET at the Natcher Conference Center.

Join the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI) on Tuesday, Oct. 8, from 1 - 2 p.m. ET, for an informative webinar on the NCI Pediatric Proton and Photon Therapy Comparison Cohort. Hear from Drs. Cari Kitahara and Choonsik Lee on this multicenter study and collaboration between the NCI’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Massachusetts General Hospital and investigators from participating treatment centers. 

The next National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) Director’s Seminar will feature Dr. Rudolph Rodriguez, a board-certified internist and nephrologist. 

The NIH Office of Disease Prevention (ODP) has published its first-ever supplemental journal issue, “Design and Analytic Methods to Evaluate Multilevel Interventions to Reduce Health Disparities,” released by Prevention Science. The open-access issue provides a collection of peer-reviewed papers on rigorous clinical trial methods that can be used to evaluate community-based interventions in populations that experience health disparities.