NIH requires applicants to submit public health relevance statements in grant applications to ensure the description of the projects’ potential to improve public health is clearly articulated. The public health relevance statement should be written in plain language that can be understood by a general, lay audience, as well as your reviewers and colleagues. NIH uses these public health relevance statements for portfolio analyses, to identify research highlights to Congress and to make the importance of the research clear to the public.
Applicants should enter a brief statement of public health relevance in field 7, Project Narrative, on the Other Project Information component of the SF 424 (R&R) application. If using the PHS398 application, enter this information into the Relevance field of Form Page 2.
Statements of public health relevance are highlighted in a new field, separate from the project abstract, on the CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information Scientific Projects) tool found on the new NIH Report Web site.
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