Overview
On July 17, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued NOT-OD-25-133, introducing a new requirement for organizations receiving NIH funding to provide training to all senior/key personnel on other support disclosure responsibilities. This shift reflects NIH’s continued focus on research transparency and research security.
Importantly, researchers must disclose all available resources in support of their research, regardless of their monetary value or where they originate.
What’s Required?
By October 1, 2025, institutions must implement training for all senior/key personnel on other support disclosure requirements. The NIH has noted, “The U.S. National Science Foundation, in partnership with the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense, has developed an online research security training for the research community, available here. Institutions may use this training to assist in fulfilling the other support training requirement; however, institutions must also train on NIH-specific requirements per the NIH Grants Policy Statement (GPS), Section 2.5.1 “Just-in-Time Procedures”, and any institution-specific requirements per the institution’s other support policy.”
Training Options from CITI Program
CITI Program offers a comprehensive suite of training options to help institutions meet these new NIH requirements:
- Research Security Training – Developed by NSF in collaboration with NIH, DOE, and DOD
- Research Security Training (Combined) – SECURE Center Condensed Research Security Training Module
- Updated Research Security: A Basic Course (part of the Research Security series) –updated in September 2025 to reflect NIH requirements.
- Updated Research Security Advanced Refresher (part of the Research Security series) – update to reflect NIH requirements coming soon from CITI Program (target release: by October 1, 2025).
- Customizable course options – Institutions can add institution-specific content and policies to their CITI Program courses.
Stay Ahead of the Deadline
By planning now, organizations can ensure continued NIH compliance and reinforce a culture of research integrity. CITI Program’s trusted, flexible options make it easy to deliver the proper training to the right personnel, on time.
