Research Catalog

Title

Scientific opportunities and public needs : improving priority setting and public input at the National Institutes of Health / Committee on the NIH Research Priority-Setting Process, Health Sciences Policy Program, Health Sciences Section, Institute of Medicine.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Health Sciences Policy Program (U.S.). Committee on the NIH Research Priority-Setting Process.

Description

xiv, 120 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Alternative Title

Improving priority setting and public input at the National Institutes of Health

Subject

• National Institutes of Health > Appropriations and expenditures
• National Institutes of Health (U.S.) > Appropriations and expenditures
• National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
• Medicine > Research > Government policy > Citizen participation. > United States
• Public health > Research > Government policy > Citizen participation. > United States
• Federal aid to medical research > United States
• Medical policy
• Academies and Institutes > organization & administration
• Health Priorities
• Research Support as Topic
• Community Participation
• Health Policy
• Medical policy
• Expenditures, Public
• Federal aid to medical research
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-83).

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available via the Internet.

Contents

Executive summary -- Introduction -- Background -- Funding allocation by institute and center -- Funding allocation by mechanism -- Funding allocation by type of research -- Funding allocation by disease -- Recent trends and issues -- IOM committee process -- Organization of the report -- Criteria for priority setting -- Why criteria are important -- NIH's criteria for priority setting -- Criterion 1. Public health needs -- Criterion 2. Quality of research supported -- Criterion 3. Scientific opportunity -- Criterion 4. Portfolio diversification -- Criterion 5. Adequate infrastructure support -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Priority-setting processes -- Priority setting through the budget process -- NIH director's role in priority setting -- Transfer authority -- Discretionary fund -- NIH areas of research emphasis -- Advisory committee to the director -- Priority setting at the institute level -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Mechanisms for public input -- Public input into priority setting -- Recent changes -- Two-way communication between NIH and the public -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Offices of public liaison: rationale, roles, and responsibilities -- Director's council of public representatives: rationale, roles, and responsibities -- Policy and program advisory group membership -- Summary -- Congressional role -- Congress and NIH -- How congress communicates priorities -- Conclusions and recommendations.

ISBN

• 9780309061308
• 030906130X

LCCN

99173514

OCLC

• ocm39919834
• 39919834
• SCSB-9717744

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library