| Briefing Date: | 07/08/1998 |
Categories: Policy; Health; Science
| Topic: | Scientific Opportunities and Public Needs: Improving Priority Setting and Public Input at the National Institutes of Health |
INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE
Division of Health Sciences Policy
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Congressional Briefing
Wednesday, July 8, 1998 - 4:00 p.m.
430 Dirksen Senate Office Building
on
Scientific Opportunities and Public Needs: Improving Priority Setting and Public Input at the National Institutes of Health
by
Leon E. Rosenberg, M.D., Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, and Chair, Committee on the NIH Research Priority-Setting Process, Institute of Medicine
In answer to a request by Congress in PL 105-78, sec. 213, a committee of the Institute of Medicine completed the report, Scientific Opportunities and Public Needs: Improving Priority Setting and Public Input at the National Institutes of Health, which explores and makes recommendations on the NIH priority setting process. Specifically, the report examines the impact of allocation criteria, decision making processes, mechanisms for public input, and congressional directives on NIH and its more than $13 B in annual expenditures. The report has 12 recommendations for strengthening priority setting and public input and for guiding congressional action.
This was a briefing for Members of Congress and/or congressional staff.
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