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National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

Advisory Council 93rd Meeting

Speaker: National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health (NACCIH)

Date: June 29, 2026 - 12:30 p.m. ET to 5:00 p.m. ET

Virtual; Registration is not required

NIH VideoCast

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

 
12:30 p.m.Call to Order 
Martina Schmidt, Ph.D.		  
12:45 p.m.National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) Director’s Welcome and NCCIH Report     
David Shurtleff, Ph.D.		  
1:45 p.m.Recognition of Council Members’ Service                         
David Shurtleff, Ph.D.		  
2:00 p.m.National Institutes of Health's Path to a Simpler Funding Opportunity Landscape
Jon Lorsch, Ph.D.		  
2:40 p.m.BREAK  
2:50 p.m.  

Emotional Well-Being Networks Initiative: Updates, Insights, and Future Directions

  • Overview
    Erin Burke Quinlan, Ph.D.
  • Measurement and Mechanisms Underlying Mind-Body Interventions for Emotional Well-Being: Progress and Prospects
    Crystal Park, Ph.D.
  • The Plasticity of Well-Being and Its Multi-Modal Measurement
    Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D.
  • Advancing Emotional Well-Being Science: Accomplishments and Impact of the EMOT-ECON Research Network
    Michelle Martin, Ph.D., FACSM, FSBM 
  
4:10 p.m.Acknowledgment of Received Public Comments  
5:00 p.m.ADJOURN  

FUTURE MEETINGS: September 11, 2026; January 22, 2027; May 14, 2027; September 17, 2027; January 28, 2028; May 19, 2028; September 15, 2028

SPEAKERS:

Wen Chen, M.M.Sc., Ph.D.
Acting Director
Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Bethesda, Maryland

Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D.
William James and Vilas Professor
Department of Psychology and Psychiatry
Founder and Director
Center for Healthy Minds
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Madison, Wisconsin

Jon Lorsch, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
Office of Extramural Research
Office of the Director, NIH

Michelle Martin, Ph.D., FACSM, FSBM
Professor
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Department of Preventive Medicine
Director, Healthy Lifestyles for Humanity: A Research Center for Community Wellbeing
Memphis, Tennessee

Crystal Park, Ph.D.
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
Department of Psychological Sciences
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

Erin Burke Quinlan, Ph.D.
Acting Chief
Basic and Mechanistic Research in Complementary and Integrative Health 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

Wendy J. Weber, N.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.
Acting Deputy Director
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland