Harvard's NRSA Childcare Costs Guidance

August 28, 2023
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) provides childcare cost support to recipients of full-time National Research Service Award (NRSA) fellowships and full-time predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees appointed on NRSA institutional research training awards. This is in recognition of the high cost of childcare that impacts graduate students and post-doctorates funded through NRSA fellowships, and hinders their ability to successfully complete their training and fully participate in the extramural research workforce (NOT-OD-21-074). This Harvard guidance is divided into two sections: one for NRSA fellowships and one for NRSA training grants. Although there may be similar information in both sections, there is an important distinction to how these funds are awarded to the recipient. Please refer to the OSP post for more information.