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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... important concerns. On the other hand, this complex and decentralized organizational structure makes it more difficult for the NIH director to mobilize significant resources to focus on new programs of strategic importance that should ...
... important concerns. On the other hand, this complex and decentralized organizational structure makes it more difficult for the NIH director to mobilize significant resources to focus on new programs of strategic importance that should ...
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... importance of multi-institutional, multidisciplinary research that relies more and more on large infrastructural investments is ever more apparent. Demographics and the patterns of illness in society are changing, and the specter of ...
... importance of multi-institutional, multidisciplinary research that relies more and more on large infrastructural investments is ever more apparent. Demographics and the patterns of illness in society are changing, and the specter of ...
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... important biomedical and health challenges or to respond quickly enough to health emergencies have resurfaced in Congress and in some parts of the scientific community. NIH has never been administratively reorganized in any substantial ...
... important biomedical and health challenges or to respond quickly enough to health emergencies have resurfaced in Congress and in some parts of the scientific community. NIH has never been administratively reorganized in any substantial ...
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... important constraints on the development, character, and scope of the recommendations that could credibly be put forward. Most important, the committee was not asked to address NIH's research priorities or the quality and effectiveness ...
... important constraints on the development, character, and scope of the recommendations that could credibly be put forward. Most important, the committee was not asked to address NIH's research priorities or the quality and effectiveness ...
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... important to understand that the structure of any large and complex organization, such as NIH, is not the tidy result of a compact set of compelling propositions emanating from organizational theory any more than the particular ...
... important to understand that the structure of any large and complex organization, such as NIH, is not the tidy result of a compact set of compelling propositions emanating from organizational theory any more than the particular ...
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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