COVID-19 has affected each of us at the NIH in many ways — whether it has meant suddenly being part of the race to discover therapeutics and vaccines, caring for patients in the Clinical Center, cleaning or maintaining facilities, re-configuring work protocols, adjusting to our changed professional and personal routines, or grappling with our emotions. Here are some suggestions of topics you can address:

• Working on campus during the pandemic
• Teleworking or being furloughed during the pandemic
• The effect that COVID-19 has had on your personal interactions with co-workers
• Opportunities that have emerged due to COVID-19
• Particular aspects of your work that you miss
• How your training and career have been affected
• How you feel the NIH has responded overall to the crisis

Your perspective on COVID-19 is Your professional or personal experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic are unique and can be communicated in whatever mediums and formats way that you feel fitting to express your experience. Some ideas include but are not limited to:

• Filling out the questionnaire [link to that]
• Participating in a short virtual interview [link to that]
• Videos or audio recordings that you have created
• Video
• Audio recordings
• Photography
• Journal entries
• Poetry
• Prose
• Artwork
• Social media posts
• Spreadsheets
• Presentations
• Blogs
• Department-wide projects
• , blogs, poetry, prose, etc.
• Artwork
• Spreadsheets, presentations, or other work projectsInterviews with ONHM staff

Share your reflections Answer questions and submit any digital files that document your experience with COVID-19 with this this form. Answer as many or as few questions as you would like. Be sure to read the permission agreements Permission Agreements at the end of the form. 

Do you have physical items or papers that capture your experience with contending with COVID-19? Send them to us either by mail or deliver them in-person to the Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum once we re-open at:

Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum
Attn: Gabrielle Barr
Building 60, Suite 230
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland 20814-1460

When donating physical items, please complete our Deed of Gift form (pdf, 12kb). This gives us the permission to use your materials online, in exhibits, and in publications as well as add them to the Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum's collection.

We are accepting submissions in languages other than English.

Please do not include personal health information in your submissions for the privacy rights of those involved. 

We will acknowledge receipt of your submission.

The Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum has the right to reject any submission or component of a submission that it considers duplicative, inappropriate, or outside the scope of the project.

There is no firm deadline to submit materials as the pandemic continues. We estimate that the submission element of this project will last through 2021.

Submissions will not be accessible immediately for public viewing.  After we process and curate the materials, they will be available for historic scholarship.  By the end of 2021, we hope to show many of these digital documents on our website, and we plan to feature a selection of the submissions in forthcoming exhibits and publications.  

If you have concerns about maintaining your privacy, questions regarding sensitivity to information disclosed, or dissatisfaction with the way your submission is represented online, please reach out to the Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum at history@nih.gov to discuss potential solutions.

If you have questions about how your submission would fit into our repository, accessibility requirements, or need technical assistance, please contact Gabrielle Barr at history@nih.gov.