Scientific Opportunities and Public Needs

Author: Committee on the NIH Research Priority-Setting Process
Edition: 1st
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 030906130X
Category: Medical

Scientific Opportunities and Public Needs: Improving Priority Setting and Public Input at the National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the single largest funder of health research in the United States, and research it has supported has been pivotal to the explosion of biomedical knowledge over the past century. Download Scientific Opportunities and Public Needs medical books for free.
As NIH's success has grown, so has pressure from advocacy groups and other members of the public to devote more spending to their health concerns. In response to a request from Congress, this IOM study reviewed NIH's research priority-setting process and made recommendations for possible improvement. The committee considered the: factors and criteria used by NIH to make funding allocations; process by which the funding decisions are made; mechanisms for public input; and the impact of congressional statutory directives on funding Get Scientific Opportunities and Public Needs our bestseller medical books.

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As NIH's success has grown, so has pressure from advocacy groups and other members of the public to devote more spending to their health concerns The committee considered the: factors and criteria used by NIH to make funding allocations; process by which the funding decisions are made; mechanisms for public input; and the impact of congressional statutory directives on funding

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