Responding to Health Needs and Scientific Opportunity The Organizational Structure of the National Institutes of Health (1984) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B The Current Organizational Structure of the NIH, Thomas D. Morris
Appendix B The Current Organizational Structure of the NIH, Thomas D. Morris
Pages 63-94
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Introduction: Purpose and Method Part II. Findings in Respect to the Organizational Structure of the NIH and Current Issues Pare III.
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Interviews By far the most significant work performed has been personal discussions with over 70 key officials. In summary, they consisted of the following: Of f ice of the Director Bureaus and Institutes Research and Centra 1 Services Divis ions Agencies Proposed for Transfer to N IN PHS /HHS Of f ic ia Is No .
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Step 3. Special Analyses of the Volume of Research Grant Applications by Institute One of the most use fut ways to view the interaction among Institutes and Study Sections is to examine the flow of grant applications.
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In addition to the above, the committee Staff has furnished a number of manuscripts dealing with peat and current issues that are of high value.
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Then, as one begins to inquire into operations, the highly decentralized nature of the National Institutes of Health comes into still sharper focus. There are fourteen entities outside of the Director's immediate office which receive direct congressional appropriations that are not subject to formal control by the NIH Director in the implementation stage.
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The Major Organizational Components of NIH The three major components of NIH include: the Office of the Director; the Bureaus, Institutes and Divisions; and the NIH Research and Central Services Divisions. Figure 2 summarizes the size data for each of these components.
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SIncludes $17.S million for the N[H Buildings and Facilities Account. SOURCE; Based on data from the NIH Office of Administration; and TAPS Monthly Employment Report Summary, July 23, 1983.
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Each institute with a major intramural research effort has a board of scientific counselors. The boards oversee the intramural program and periodically assess the work of each tenured scientist.
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Total Appo intment 12, 110 837 282 851 4. 080 1,573 598 2.171 16.251 SOURCE: Data from TAPS Monthly Employment Report Summary, July 13, 1983.
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NIH has been blessed with the leadership of scientists with high sensitivity to the right degree of top management attention to these issues, and has avoided the micromanagement which tends to develop in most federal agencies. The Director himself has a team of three Deputies to help him as partners in overall leadership: one is a generalist; one is in charge of intramural programs; and one is in charge of extramural research and training programs.
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_ _ _, Spec ta I ! Coneni t tees Research Re latet to Disease Prevent io AIDs Coord inat ing Group National Arthrit is Advi~ory Board National Diabetes Adivisory 80a rd Nat iona l Dige~ t ive Disease~ Adv isory Board Nutr i t ion Coord inat ing Comrai t tee 0 A
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These responsibilities encompass major policy analysis and development, management of the agency's central planning process, the development of legislative proposals and provision of legislative liaison, management of the agency's evaluation program and the development of cross-cutting evaluation studies, and the monitoring of the flow of funds supporting health research and development and production of research personnel in bioscience and relevant health-related fields. Key publications include the annual NlK Research Plan, NIH Evaluation Plan, Legislative Highlights and Issues, NIH Data Book, summaries of the Director's Advisory Committee meetings, and a wide variety of policy analysis papers..
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lithe Director-of Finance points out that there are over 400 "cells" in the NIH budget as it is displayed to Congress and through which it must be managed. A continuing challenge appears to be achieving linkage between program planning and budget planning.
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At the Director's level are the National Advisory Councils covering the extramural program, and the Boards of Scientific Counselors covering the intramural. The Intramural Program.
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SOURCE: NIH Peer Review o f Research Grant NATIONAL LIBRARY Of MEDICINE . ALLERGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES : ~ "-'' ~ ~CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVE LOPMENT 1 icat ions ~ January ~ 1983 .
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Also, a typical institute today has an epidemiology and biometry component, which is neither extramural nor intramural. SOURCE: NIH Peer Review of Research Grant Applications, January 1983.
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A constant informal review of research in process is conducted and a formal review is made by the outside Board of Scientific Counselors. However, a virtue of the intramural program is the ability of Its scientists to undertake initiatives which offer no immediate short-range payof f .
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Similarly, the Study Sections typically review grant applications for In' - don and Review of ~ Grant Applicadon Type of Submitted Scientific Second Lead Inithdon Appl - don To MerIt Review Revlon l 1 Investigator(s) · Research Grant · Individual National Research Service (Fellowship)
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Study Sections Typically Review Grant Applications for Several Institutes. In FY 1983 there were 33 Study Sections which reviewed 200 or more applications for ROTS (investigatorinitiated grants)
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Serves six. Widely spread Visual Sciences Study Sections Widely spread Widely spread Oral Biology and Medicine Study Sections Widely spread The above-would suggest that there are only four institutes with close attachments to a few study sections: Aging, Eye, Dental, and Environmental Health.
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Another way of looking at the crosscutting interactions of NIH Institutes is the number of research applications that are given ~^~ ^ ~~:~^~~~ ~-~ referral by the Division of Research Grants. In FY 1982-1983, there were 40, 656 applications referred to NIH Instituter, 18.9: of which were of "dual interest.
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The National Eye Institute has one of the most vigorously applied planning programs, which covers five component five-year plans and sets out areas in the intramural and extramural programs to be held level and those to be expanded during the planning period. On the other hand, there are those who are skeptical as to the value of such comprehensive efforts other than to report on "where science in going." These officials stress that the course of research is driven by the individual investigator and that the keys to real progress are: (l)
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Some observations on these questions will be offered in Part III of this paper. The NIH Research and Central Services Divisions The seven remaining components of NIH comprise shone activities that not only engage in research programs themselves, in varying degrees, but also provide the professional facilities, tools, and resources needed by the Extramural community and the Intramural organizations to conduct scientific research.
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R ESEA R CH R ESOU RCES : ~SOURCE:: NIH Peer Review of Research Grant Applications ~ January ~ 1983.
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The remaining three organizations are predominantly Extramural: Divis ion of Research Grant s. As previous ly described, the DRG handles the receipt and referral of all grant applications and operates the 64 Study Sections.
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~ These last two organizations, DRR and FIC, have autonomous research programs and direct congressional appropriations, and are known as research divisions. The majority of their budgets are devoted to extramural grants and contracts, for which DRR and FIC have final authority, and for most purposes they are treated as research institutes.
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To Accomplish This, Certain Responsibilities Could be More Sharply De f ined Among the Deputy Directors of NIH The concept suggests that the "front office" partnership employ two functional deputies with line authority over central service functions outside of individual institutes and staff responsibility for extramural and intramural research programs: one for Intramural Programs and Campus Services; one for Extramural Programs and Training.
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Pos: 2~300 1 S92 Pos: 345 1 S44 Clinical Division of Computer Center Research ~ Technology · Clinical Services · Ambulatory Care NIH-Wide Coordination of Intramural Programs Computer Center Research supper t: computers ~ matte r physical sciences It is believed that the most useful approach to managing this huge c luster would be to form task teams, over time, around a series of pre-planned projects. Examples of near-term issues which might be examined are: Operation and utilization of the Clinical Center.
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Organization for oversight of the Office of Research Services and the Divis ion of Research Services: Should one management be established at an appropriate time? Is there any value in closer coordination between the in-house support services and the Extramural programs?
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flight it be 1 inked a lso to the proposed evaluat ions to be carried out by the Deputy for Intramural Programs and Campus Services?
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