NIH Normal Volunteer Patient Program Records, 1954-2002 (inclusive): Dataset

The Vernacular Archive of Normal Volunteers (VANV), 1940-2018 (inclusive) is a collection of oral histories, associated archival documents, and project records created and collected by Laura Jeanine Morris Stark (born 1975) to explore the lives of the first “normal control” research subjects at the Clinical Center of the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland who were recruited through NIH’s Normal Volunteer Patient Program. Dataset consists of copies of records requested and obtained by Laura Stark under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. subsection 552, to contextualize oral histories conducted under the auspices of VANV. Records include materials previously unreleased from the NIH about the Normal Volunteer Patient Program (1953-1995) and the Clinical Research Volunteer Program (1995-2002). The materials include administrative memoranda, advertisements, annual reports, bulletins, itineraries, meeting minutes, newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, and recommendations dating from 1954-2002. Copies of the letters submitted to the records liaison for the Office of Patient Recruitment and Public Liaison Office of the NIH Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, by Laura Stark requesting copies of records can be found in the dataset "VANV project records, 2010-2018.”