An official website of the United States governmentAdvisory Council 92nd Meeting
Speaker: National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health (NACCIH)
Date: April 17, 2026 - 12:00 p.m. ET to 5:00 p.m. ET
Virtual; Registration is not required
Federal Register Notice and amended Federal Register Notice
Closed Session | |||
| 10:00 a.m. | This session of the meeting is closed to the public in accordance with the provisions in Sections 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5, U.S.C., and Section 1009 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1014). | ||
| 11:30 a.m. | LUNCH BREAK | ||
Open Session | |||
| 12:00 p.m. | Call to Order Martina Schmidt, Ph.D. | ||
| 12:10 p.m. | Review and Approval of Council Operating Procedures Martina Schmidt, Ph.D. | ||
| 12:30 p.m. | National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) Director’s Welcome and NCCIH Report David Shurtleff, Ph.D. | ||
| 1:30 p.m. | Unified Funding Strategy David Shurtleff, Ph.D., and Martina Schmidt, Ph.D. | ||
| 1:50 p.m. | BREAK | ||
| 2:00 p.m. | Moving Forward—Outlining a Vision for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NCCIH
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| 3:30 p.m. | BREAK | ||
| 3:40 p.m. | Concept Clearances: The Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative, or NIH HEAL Initiative, Whole Joint Health Program NIH HEAL Initiative: A Holistic Approach to Study Non-Addictive Natural Products for Pain Management NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research: Establishing a Research Network to Guide Foundational Research on Human Consciousness Pragmatic and Implementation Trials Conducted in Health Care Settings | ||
| 4:40 p.m. | Acknowledgment of Received Public Comments | ||
| 5:00 p.m. | ADJOURN | ||
FUTURE MEETINGS: June 29, 2026; September 11, 2026; January 22, 2027; May 14, 2027; September 17, 2027
Speakers:
Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D.
Director
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Bethesda, Maryland
Wen Chen, M.M.Sc., Ph.D.
Acting Director
Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland
Beda Jean-Francois, Ph.D.
Program Director
Clinical Research in Complementary and Integrative Health Branch
Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland
Helene M. Langevin, M.D.
Research Director
Osher Center for Integrative Health
University of Vermont
Senior Advisor on Scientific Communications
The Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health
Former Director
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland
Erin Quinlan, Ph.D.
Acting Chief
Basic and Mechanistic Research Branch
Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland
Martina Schmidt, Ph.D.
Executive Secretary
National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health
Director, Division of Extramural Activities
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland
David Shurtleff, Ph.D.
Acting Director
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland
Patrick Still, Ph.D.
Program Director
Basic and Mechanistic Research Branch
Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland
Alexander H. Tuttle, Ph.D.
Acting Deputy Chief
Basic and Mechanistic Research Branch
Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland
Wendy J. Weber, N.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Acting Deputy Director
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland
Richard Woychik, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor to the NIH Director
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland