Enhancing the Vitality of the National Institutes of Health: Organizational Change to Meet New ChallengesNational Research Council, Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Life Sciences, Committee on the Organizational Structure of the National Institutes of Health National Academies Press, 2003 M07 29 - 164 pages The report says that important organizational changes are needed at the National Institutes of Health to ensure the agency meets future challenges effectively. In particular, the report advises NIH to devote additional resources to innovative interdisciplinary research that reflects its strategic objectives and cuts across all agency's institutes and centers. The report recommends that Congress should establish a formal process for determining how specific proposals for changes in the number of NIH agencies and centers should be addressed. |
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... continue to be effective. Indeed in a rapidly changing environment, the greatest risk to successful organizations is the danger of becoming entrenched in the very things that have made them successful at the expense vii Preface.
... continue to be effective. Indeed in a rapidly changing environment, the greatest risk to successful organizations is the danger of becoming entrenched in the very things that have made them successful at the expense vii Preface.
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... continue to accomplish its mission successfully. Readers of this report should not interpret its recommendations as in any way seeking to undermine the primacy of investigator-initiated science or of the excellent peer review system in ...
... continue to accomplish its mission successfully. Readers of this report should not interpret its recommendations as in any way seeking to undermine the primacy of investigator-initiated science or of the excellent peer review system in ...
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... continues to be appropriate. Clearly many changes have taken place in the world of science and in the nature of the health concerns that research must address. Since the late 1990s, the NIH budget has doubled to its current level of ...
... continues to be appropriate. Clearly many changes have taken place in the world of science and in the nature of the health concerns that research must address. Since the late 1990s, the NIH budget has doubled to its current level of ...
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... continues to have confidence in NIH's ability to fund outstanding research and to ensure that new knowledge will benefit all Americans, the fundamental changes in science that have occurred lead us to question whether the current NIH ...
... continues to have confidence in NIH's ability to fund outstanding research and to ensure that new knowledge will benefit all Americans, the fundamental changes in science that have occurred lead us to question whether the current NIH ...
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... governed, first, by the desire to be of some practical assistance to all those who wish NIH to continue to be an outstanding organization. Scholars of organizational management have long recognized that there Executive Summary 3.
... governed, first, by the desire to be of some practical assistance to all those who wish NIH to continue to be an outstanding organization. Scholars of organizational management have long recognized that there Executive Summary 3.
Contents
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The Changing Nature of Biomedical Science | 51 |
4 The Organizational Structure of the National Institutes of Health | 67 |
5 Enhancing NIHs Ability to Respond to New Challenges | 83 |
6 Accountability Administration and Leadership | 103 |
7 Putting Principles into Practice | 121 |
References | 129 |
Appendixes | 135 |
APPENDIX B Acronyms and Abbreviations | 139 |
APPENDIX C Committee Member Biographies | 143 |
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