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In an effort to shed light on its array of family-friendly programs and policies, the National Institutes of Health Office of Extramural Research launched a Web page that compiles "some of the ways in which NIH helps our grantee institutions foster family-friendly environments for the NIH-supported workforce," OER says. OER outlines the ways in which NIH funds researchers taking time off for family reasons, provides grant applicants an opportunity to explain delays in productivity, allows early-stage investigators, or ESIs, "who have experienced a lapse in their research or research training during the 10-year ESI period" to request extensions of their ESI eligibility, supports investigators re-entering research after some time away with supplemental assistance, and "requiring child care at NIH-supported conferences."

HT: NIH OER Extramural Nexus