NIH Roadmap Emphasis/Strategic Planning Areas
Breadth and complexity of issues highlighted through Roadmap process will require coordinated planning with existing groups.
- Training/Careers
- NIH will collaborate with academic institutions and scientific societies to define:
- What the scientific workforce should look like
- Multiple career paths
- Training programs to foster the development of an optimal workforce
- Health Disparities
- National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities(NCMHD) currently serves as the NIH lead for strategic planning and coordination of research funding in this area.
- Roadmap strategic planning effort will determine whether the following would be of added value in support of current NCMHD activities.
- Further analysis of the current NIH portfolio to determine gaps in this area
- New methods to promote coordination of activities in this area across the agency.
- Science of Science Administration
- Will be an attempt to determine the most effective administrative approaches for achieving programmatic goals
- Will examine most effective use of multiple mechanisms
- Will consider possible requirement for new administrative strategies for review and funding
- programmatic goals such as high innovation, support of junior investigators, productive research teams, etc. will be the target for new approaches.
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