NIH inclusion-policy pages updated with no SGM or gender-identity content

Guidance/memoNIH

Date
Actor
NIH Office of Extramural Research
Agency
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Type
Guidance/memo (policy web content)
Section
SUPPLEMENT: NIH'S SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITY RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE WAS DISMANTLED — DISTINCT FROM THE GRANT TERMINATIONS THE INDEX ALREADY COVERS

Summary

NIH's human-subjects inclusion policy pages carry a last-updated date of July 18, 2025. The inclusion topic index lists only two policies — "Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Participants in Research Involving Human Subjects" and "Inclusion Across the Lifespan in Human Subjects Research" — and the women-and-minorities policy page uses "sex" throughout ("composition of the proposed study population in terms of sex and racial and/or ethnic minority groups"; "analyses of the primary outcome by sex and race and/or ethnicity") with no reference to sexual and gender minorities, gender identity, or SGM populations. NOT-OD-19-139, which directed attention to SGM inclusion and data collection in NIH-supported research, remains live in the Guide but is no longer reflected in the operative policy pages.

Status

In effect as the current published NIH inclusion policy content.

As recorded in the data of . Check the sources for anything newer.

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