In December 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a request for public input on its proposal to establish harmonized and transparent policy requirements for protecting human participant research data and in alignment with recent national security directives. Specifically, NIH proposes to:

(1) establish policy requirements for which data should be controlled-access under NIH data sharing policies, and

(2) revise the NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy to simplify and harmonize requirements.

As a reminder, comments on the proposal are due by March 18, 2026. Comments must be submitted electronically at https://osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form-draft-nih-controlled-access-data-policy-and-proposed-revisions-to-nih-genomic-data-sharing-policy/  

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