Concepts Under Consideration To Be Developed Into Requests for Applications or Program Announcements

A concept is an early planning stage in the development of a research initiative (a program announcement, request for applications, or request for proposals).

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September 2025

• Concept: Interdisciplinary Research Networks To Advance the Science of Resilience and Health Optimization

March 2025

• Concept: The Role of Hormesis in Whole Person Health
• Concept: Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches To Promote Whole Person Health Restoration via Emotional Well-Being Mechanisms

September 2024

• Concept: Advancing and Coordinating Interoception Research Across the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Concept: Advancing the Science of Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches To Improve Maternal Health Outcomes

March 2024

• Concept: REsearch Across Complementary and Integrative Health Institutions (REACH) Virtual Resource Centers    

September 2023

• Concept: Consortium Advancing Research on Botanicals and Other Natural Products (CARBON)
• Concept: NCCIH MERIT (Method to Extend Research In Time) Award To Promote Innovation and Diversity in Complementary and Integrative Health Research

May 2023

• Concept: Whole Person Research Initiative
• Concept: Enhancing Mechanistic Research on Precision Probiotic Therapies
• Concept: Resource Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research

January 2023

• Concept: Research Resource for Systematic Review of Complementary and Integrative Health

May 2022 

• Concept: Reissuance of a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Dietary Supplement and Natural Product Analytical Method Validation Studies
• Concept: Building Cross-Cutting Research Network(s) To Promote Multidisciplinary Mechanistic Studies of Music and Health
• Concept: Research Networks To Promote Innovative Mechanistic and Translational Studies of Sickle Cell Disease Pain

January 2022

• Concept: High-Priority Pain Research

September 2021

• Concept: Fostering Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health Among Children in School Settings: Opportunities for Complementary and Integrative Health
• Concept: NIH-DOD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory

May 2021

• Concept: NIH HEAL Initiative: Optimizing Therapies for Sickle Cell Disease Pain Management

January 2021

• Concept: Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory 

September 2020

• Concept: Multilevel Physical Activity Interventions To Improve Health and Well-Being Initiative

June 2020

• Concept: Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for Validation Studies of Analytical Methods for Dietary Supplement Constituents

February 2020

• Concept: Functional Neural Circuits in Interoception Science
• Concept: Mid-Career Enhancement Awards to Integrate Basic Behavioral, Biomedical, and Social Sciences
• Concept: Quantitative Evaluations of Myofascial Tissues: Potential Impact on Musculoskeletal Pain Research
• Concept: Underlying Mechanisms of Force-based Manipulations: High-Priority Research Networks

September 2019

• Concept: An Open-Access Repository or Database for Anatomical and Physiological Ontology of Acupoints
• Concept: NCCIH Clinical Trials Initiative for Intervention Development and Testing
• Concept: NCCIH High Program Priority Initiatives for Basic and Mechanistic Studies of Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches

June 2019

• Concept: Mechanisms Underlying Modulation of the Glymphatic and Lymphatic Systems by Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches
• Concept: mHealth and Remotely Delivered Complementary and Integrative Interventions
• Concept: Natural Products and Pain Concept Clearance

February 2019

• Concept: Interdisciplinary Training Programs for Complementary and Integrative Health