July 11, 2016 FOIA Request to NIH for Healthy Minds Confidentiality Documents to and from MIT and U. Michigan

Below is the July 11, 2016 FOIA request to National Institutes of Health seeking Certificates of Confidentiality (and applications for such) issued to MIT and U. Michigan. Some personal information has been redacted (i.e., masked out).

July 11, 2016

John K. Hinsdale
38 Quaker Road
Princeton Junction, NJ
USA 08550-1651
Email: hin@alma.com
Day Tel: [redacted]

By Certified Mail No. 7010-1870-0003-3592-3702

To:

Freedom of Information Office, NIH
Building 31, Room 5B35
31 Center Drive, MSC 2107
Bethesda, MD 20892-2107

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST

Documents Requested

For the five calendar years 2012 - 2016 inclusive,
All Certificates of Confidentiality (CoCs) for human subject mental health research:
- issued by any NIH component to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), or to University of Michigan (U.Mich.), and
- where the project name is similar to "Healthy Minds Study" or "Healthy Minds Network"

All Certificates of Confidentiality (CoCs) for human subject mental health research:

issued by any NIH component to MIT or to U.Mich. and where
the research project is any mental health survey, and

the related Principal Investigator or Institutional Official is one of the following individuals:

L. Rafael Reif (MIT)
Cynthia Barnhart (MIT)
Martin A. Schmidt (MIT)

Maria T. Zuber (MIT)
Jagruti Patel (MIT)
Daniel Eisenberg (U. Mich.)

All Applications for Certificates of Confidentiality (CoCs) for the two groups of criteria above, regardless of whether the applications were granted or denied, and to include the signed "assurances" (five paragraphs) and their signatories.

Document Remittance and Billing

Please mail documents to the above street address. I am willing to pay up to $100.00 (One Hundred Dollars) for shipping and processing fees. If the cost will be higher you may phone me or Email at the above address to confirm a larger amount. You may bill me at the above address or charge my Visa card No. [redacted], Expiration [redacted] for up to the amount authorized.

Documents may be sent electronically if there is both advance notice of the transmission and confirmation the documents were received. Otherwise U.S. mail is requested.

Sincerely,

John K. Hinsdale

Receipt at NIH on July 14, 2016

The July 11, 2016 letter above, initiating the inquiry, was received at NIH on July 14, 2016.

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