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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... specific questions were to be addressed: 1. Are there general principles by which NIH should be organized? 2. Does the current structure reflect these principles, or should NIH be restructured? If restructuring is recommended, what ...
... specific questions were to be addressed: 1. Are there general principles by which NIH should be organized? 2. Does the current structure reflect these principles, or should NIH be restructured? If restructuring is recommended, what ...
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... institutes and centers has been productive and has provided an ever broader base of support and budget success both for the specific interests involved and for NIH 6 Enhancing the Vitality of the National Institutes of Health.
... institutes and centers has been productive and has provided an ever broader base of support and budget success both for the specific interests involved and for NIH 6 Enhancing the Vitality of the National Institutes of Health.
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... specific interests involved and for NIH in the aggregate. While everyone understands that this expansion cannot and should not continue indefinitely, many see no particular difficulty with the current number of institutes and centers ...
... specific interests involved and for NIH in the aggregate. While everyone understands that this expansion cannot and should not continue indefinitely, many see no particular difficulty with the current number of institutes and centers ...
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... specific topic. Once developed, the statistics should be kept current and their accuracy ensured through quality control. NIH must also improve its tracking and analysis of the research accomplishments of scientists trained and ...
... specific topic. Once developed, the statistics should be kept current and their accuracy ensured through quality control. NIH must also improve its tracking and analysis of the research accomplishments of scientists trained and ...
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... specific diseases in isolation. From a managerial point of view, Wyngaarden raised the question of whether organizational complexity tends to be counterproductive (U.S. Congress, 1981). Harold Varmus, the most recent NIH director to ...
... specific diseases in isolation. From a managerial point of view, Wyngaarden raised the question of whether organizational complexity tends to be counterproductive (U.S. Congress, 1981). Harold Varmus, the most recent NIH director to ...
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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