Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health; Notice of Closed Meeting

Notice is hereby given of a meeting of the HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-Term) Multi-Disciplinary Working Group

The meeting will be open to the public as indicated below via NIH Videocast. Individuals who need special assistance, such as sign language interpretation or other reasonable accommodations, should notify the Contact Person listed below in advance of the meeting.

The meeting will be closed to the public in accordance with the provisions set forth in sections 552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., as amended. The program documents and the discussions could disclose confidential trade secrets or commercial property such as patentable material, and personal information concerning individuals associated with the program documents, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.

Name of Committee: HEAL Multi-Disciplinary Working Group (MDWG) Meeting.

Date: March 1-2, 2022.

Open: March 1, 2022, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Closed: March 1, 2022, 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Closed: March 2, 2022, 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Agenda: To review and evaluate provide an update on Helping to End Addiction Long-Term (HEAL) Initiatives projects and obtain expertise from MDWG relevant to the NIH HEAL Initiative and to specific HEAL projects.

Videocast: The open portion of the meeting will be live webcast at: https://videocast.nih.gov.

Place: National Institutes of Health, Building 1, Wilson Hall, 1 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 (Virtual Meeting).

Contact Person: Rebecca G Baker, Ph.D., Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, 1 Center Drive, Room 103A, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 402-1994, Rebecca.baker@nih.gov .

Any interested person may file written comments with the committee by forwarding the statement to the Contact Person listed on this notice. The statement should include the name, address, telephone number and when applicable, the business or professional affiliation of the interested person.

Information is also available on the Office of the Director for the NIH HEAL Initiative website: https://heal.nih.gov/news where an agenda and any additional information for the meeting will be posted when available.

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Nos. 93.853, Clinical Research Related to Neurological Disorders; 93.854, Biological Basis Research in the Neurosciences, National Institutes of Health, HHS)