A New Grand Challenge for Nanotechnology: The Mom Project; Public Comments for NNI Ilise L Feitshans, BAOJ Nanotech 2016, 2: 2 2: 010 BAOJ Nanotech, an open access journal Volume 2; Issue 2; 010 Ilise L Feitshans * The Greek Naional Plaform on Nanomedicine and Execuive Director, the Work Health and Survival Project Switzerland and USA BAOJ Nanotechnology *Corresponding author: The Greek Naional Plaform on Nanomedicine and Execuive Director, the Work Health and Survival Project Switzerland and USA, E-mail: forecasingnanolaw@gmail.com Rec Date: October 24, 2016, Acc Date: October 27, 2016, Pub Date: October 28, 2016. Citaion: Ilise L Feitshans (2016) A New Grand Challenge for Nanotech- nology: The Mom Project; Public Comments for NNI. BAOJ Nanotech 2: 010. Copyright: © 2016 Ilise L Feitshans. This is an open-access aricle dis- tributed under the terms of the Creaive Commons Atribuion License, which permits unrestricted use, distribuion, and reproducion in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Research Article Abstract Nanotechnology is increasingly moving from laboratories into commerce and has become “ubiquitous” in the global economy, according to the White House Oice of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) created by the US Congress to Advise the President of the United States about major issues in science. Bringing together the diferent strands of research for these agencies, OSTP created a new initiative in 2015 called the Grand Challenge, designed to confront an important problem nationally and globally and whose conquest will represent responsible and sustainable use of nanotechnology and also that captures the imagination of the general public in order to inspire next generation researchers under the auspices of the National Nanotechnology Initiative, (NNI). In 2015, OSTP announced the irst Nanotechnology-Inspired Grand Challenge which would “create a new type of computer that can proactively interpret and learn from data, solve unfamiliar problems using what it has learned, and operate with the energy eiciency of the human brain”. Under the auspices of OSTP. NNI coordinates 20 USA federal agencies to foster nanotechnology research and lab to market commercialization. hese federal programs have invested more than $23 billion in support for characterization, modeling, and fabrication; and responsible transfer of nanotechnology-based products to public use. herefore, when OSTP 2016 triennual strategy for NNI requested public comment by stakeholders, the Work Health and Survival Project (WHS) proposed a new Grand Challenge: “eliminating or reducing health disparities based on gender or sex, and especially those facets of the disparities that impact infant mortality and maternal mortality”. WHS commented that the 4 key Goals ofered by OSTP within the NNI Mission it exactly with the crying need for pulling together interdisciplinary nanotechnology and nanomedicines to eliminate gender based health disparities and reduce maternal mortality and infant mortality worldwide and locally, as already addressed by the European Union and the United Nations in UNICEF and UNAIDS. his article describes the OSTP Grand Challenge criteria and ofers a case study of UNAIDS. his article concludes that reducing maternal mortality and infant mortality that has plagued humanity globally for millennia is consistent with all 4 Goals set forth for NNI Grand Challenge. Keywords: National Nanotechnology Initiative; Maternal Mortality; Infant Mortality; President of the United States; Women’ S Health; Health Disparities; Responsible and Sustainable Nanotechnology; UNAIDS Ubiquitous Nano Nanotechnology is increasingly moving from laboratories into commerce and has become “ubiquitous” in the global economy, according to the White House Oice of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) created by the US Congress to Advise the President of the United States about major issues in science [1]. he Director of OSTP also serves as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and manages the NSTC [2]. he Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee is the interagency body responsible for coordinating, planning, implementing, and reviewing the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), a subcommittee of the Committee on Technology of the National Science and Technology Council. he National Nanotechnology Coordination Oice (NNCO) provides technical and administrative support to the NSET Subcommittee and its working groups in the preparation of multi-agency planning, budget, and assessment documents related to the NNI. NNI was established in 2001 under the auspices of OSTP, as a collaborative network for 20 agencies of the federal US government, spanning health [3] homeland security, space exploration, food and drug regulation, environmental protection, household and consumer goods, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice and branches of the government associated with military defence [4]. According to the 2016 Drat Strategy, these collaborations represent an investment of 23 billion dollars in nanotechnology research and lab to market eforts in commerce [5]. he oicial Drat for the OSTP 2016 triennual strategy for NNI requested public comment by stakeholders. In response, the Work Health and Survival Project (WHS), a stakeholder think tank proposed a new Grand Challenge: eliminating or reducing health disparities based on gender or sex, and especially those facets of the disparities that impact infant mortality and maternal mortality. WHS review of the drat strategy and its stakeholder comments concluded that the 4 key Goals ofered by OSTP and the NNI Mission it exactly with the crying need for pulling together interdisciplinary technology to apply nanotechnology