The Strategic Visioning process timeline for community engagement. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council and the Board of External Experts met jointly in September 2014 to create the initial outline for the Strategic Visioning process. The NHLBI staff then developed a full Strategic Visioning framework to elicit and collect scientific CQs and CCs from the NHLBI community. In the spring of 2015, the entire NHLBI community will contribute CQs and CCs. These CQs and CCs will be refined, integrated, and evaluated against the NHLBI research portfolio to develop Draft Strategic Visioning Scientific Priorities that will be released for public comment in the summer of 2015. The NHBLI, working with its scientific advisory groups, will select a final prioritized list of CQs and CCs and publish them as part of a Strategic Visioning Scientific Priorities document by early 2016 that will describe the strategic priorities of the NHLBI.