Archiving and Documenting Child Health and Human Development Data Sets (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | PAR 25 092

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH), through the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), is offering a discretionary grant opportunity titled "Archiving and Documenting Child Health and Human Development Data Sets (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)" under funding opportunity number PAR-25-092 (CFDA 93.865). This notice of funding opportunity is focused on small research grant (R03) applications that will take existing child health and human development data sets and make them usable for the broader scientific community by properly archiving them and producing the documentation needed for secondary analysis. In practical terms, the program is meant to help researchers and institutions turn already-collected data into well-organized, well-described resources that other investigators can find, understand, and analyze without having to recreate the original study.

The central purpose is data stewardship rather than generating new clinical trial results. The work supported is expected to emphasize activities such as preparing data for long-term storage, improving data quality and usability, creating or enhancing codebooks and data dictionaries, documenting variables and measures, clarifying sampling and study design details, describing data collection procedures, and outlining any relevant processing steps (for example, cleaning rules, derived variables, scoring algorithms, or linkages across files). The overall goal is to remove the common barriers that prevent reuse of valuable data, such as missing metadata, unclear variable definitions, poorly described file structures, or insufficient information about participant cohorts and protocols.

NICHD places the highest priority on archiving data sets that align with its scientific mission in child health and human development, with top priority given to data originally collected with NICHD support. That priority signals that the institute is especially interested in ensuring that publicly funded data are preserved and made accessible for future discovery, replication, and new lines of inquiry. The opportunity is explicitly labeled "Clinical Trial Not Allowed," meaning the application should not propose conducting a clinical trial; instead, it should concentrate on curating and documenting data that already exist.

Eligibility is broad and includes many types of U.S.-based organizations and governmental entities. Eligible applicants include state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities; Native American tribal organizations other than federally recognized governments; nonprofits with and without 501(c)(3) status (as long as they are not institutions of higher education, since those are listed separately); for-profit organizations other than small businesses; small businesses; and other organizations that meet NIH eligibility rules. The announcement also highlights additional eligible applicant categories such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving institutions, Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, and Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs), as well as faith-based or community-based organizations, eligible federal agencies, regional organizations, and U.S. territories or possessions.

At the same time, there are clear limits related to foreign participation. Non-domestic (non-U.S.) entities (foreign organizations) are not eligible to apply as the applicant organization, and non-domestic components of U.S. organizations are also not eligible to apply. However, foreign components are allowed when they meet the NIH Grants Policy Statement definition, which generally means a U.S. applicant may include certain defined foreign elements of the project when justified and permitted under NIH policy, even though a foreign organization cannot serve as the primary applicant.

Key administrative details included in the listing are that the agency is NIH, the funding instrument is a grant, and the activity category is listed under Health, Income Security and Social Services. The opportunity was created on 2024-11-18, and the original closing date is 2025-11-16. The listing does not specify an award ceiling or expected number of awards in the provided excerpt, so applicants would need to consult the full NOFO text for budget guidance, project period limits typical of the R03 mechanism, review criteria, submission requirements, and any specific instructions about where and how data should be archived (for example, preferred repositories, access controls, or formatting standards).

• The National Institutes of Health in the health, income security and social services sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Archiving and Documenting Child Health and Human Development Data Sets (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.865.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-11-18.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-11-16. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others.

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