---
type: Person
title: Sarah J. Imhoff
description: "Senior Attorney, NIH Office of the General Counsel"
tags:
  - person
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organization: nih
document_count: 114
first_seen: "2021-11-10T15:30:00"
last_seen: "2022-01-25T11:53:00"
aliases:
  - Imhoff
  - Sarah Imhoff
  - Sarah J. Imhoff
sources:
  - { id: nih_public_comments, resource: /sources/nih-public-comments.md, title: NIH Hid Public Comments Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-17 }
generated: { by: randpaul-corpus-pipeline/1.0, at: "2026-08-01T12:42:27Z" }
status: stable
---

Senior Attorney, NIH Office of the General Counsel

# Activity

- **Documents:** 114 (sent/authored 62, received 52)
- **Active:** 2021-11-10 to 2022-01-25
- **Organization:** [nih](/organizations/nih.md)
- **Appears as:** `Imhoff`, `Sarah Imhoff`, `Sarah J. Imhoff`

# Correspondents

| Person | Messages | First | Last |
|---|---:|---|---|
| [Anna Kern](/people/anna-kern.md) | 93 | 2021-11-10 | 2022-01-25 |
| [Amanda Fine](/people/amanda-fine.md) | 80 | 2021-11-10 | 2022-01-24 |
| [Lydia Polimeni](/people/lydia-polimeni.md) | 63 | 2021-11-10 | 2022-01-24 |
| [Scott Prince](/people/scott-prince.md) | 61 | 2021-11-10 | 2022-01-24 |
| [David Lankford](/people/david-lankford.md) | 60 | 2021-11-10 | 2022-01-24 |
| [Crystal Spruill](/people/crystal-spruill.md) | 57 | 2021-12-01 | 2022-01-24 |
| [Renate Myles](/people/renate-myles.md) | 57 | 2021-12-01 | 2022-01-24 |
| [Haley Spencer](/people/haley-spencer.md) | 10 | 2022-01-14 | 2022-01-24 |

# Topics

* [Intelligence community assessments](/topics/intelligence-community.md) - 24 documents
* [Media strategy and public messaging](/topics/media-messaging.md) - 14 documents
* [Testing and surveillance](/topics/testing-surveillance.md) - 13 documents
* [Vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md) - 11 documents
* [Public comments and policy process](/topics/public-comments-policy.md) - 10 documents
* [Therapeutics and treatments](/topics/treatments.md) - 4 documents
* [Wuhan Institute of Virology collaboration](/topics/wiv-collaboration.md) - 3 documents

# Statement timeline

What this person is recorded saying, in date order, quoted verbatim with page citations.

* **2021-12-06** ([wiv_collaboration](/topics/wiv-collaboration.md), asserts): "For example we posted about NIH's ending structural racism effort, and there were comments about Wuhan Institute of Virology and Ivermectin that were hidden for being off topic." [^nih_public_comments]
* **2021-12-08** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "Of course, there's always a chance that a Judge can issue a broad injunction that, say, concludes that the NIH social media pages are public forums, and that no "content-based restrictions" are allowed, i.e. moderating any comments based on subject matter." [^nih_public_comments]
* **2021-12-22** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), questions): "In the meantime, I wanted to send you an answer to your question from our last call: Question: Could a decision in this case impact other NIH ICO social media accounts?" [^nih_public_comments]
* **2021-12-22** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "However, the DOJ has this scope on their radar and they will be sure to be extremely clear with the court that this concerns only the two social media pages, and if there was a ruling adverse to NIH it should be limited to these two pages only." [^nih_public_comments]
* **2021-12-22** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "This is why the DOJ sees a broader application to other NIH social media accounts as a small risk." [^nih_public_comments]
* **2021-12-22** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), questions): "In the meantime, I wanted to send you an answer to your question from our last call: Question: Could a decision in this case impact other NIH ICO social media accounts?" [^nih_public_comments]
* **2021-12-22** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "However, the DOJ has this scope on their radar and they will be sure to be extremely clear with the court that this concerns only the two social media pages, and if there was a ruling adverse to NIH it should be limited to these two pages only." [^nih_public_comments]
* **2021-12-22** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "This is why the DOJ sees a broader application to other NIH social media accounts as a small risk." [^nih_public_comments]
* **2021-12-27** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), questions): "To prove the point that inflammatory comments may dissuade interested citizens from visiting the social media pages: Has the NIH received any complaints about animal rights comments on its social media pages?" [^nih_public_comments]
* **2022-01-24** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "If NIH had the resources to manually moderate its social media accounts on a more consistent basis, it would have done so." [^nih_public_comments]

# Sources

[^nih_public_comments]: [nih_public_comments](/sources/nih-public-comments.md)