The
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...
(NIH) is an agency of the
United States Department of Health and Human Services
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and is the primary agency of the
United States
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government responsible for
biomedical and health-related research. It comprises 27 separate institutes and centers (ICs) that carry out its mission in different areas of biomedical research. It also includes the Office of the Director, which sets policies and coordinates activities of the 27 ICs.
Institutes
Centers of the NIH
In addition to being divided by research area, NIH has many operating groups called centers operating across all of the Institutes.
Office of the Director
The Office of the Director is the central office at NIH. The OD is responsible for setting policy for NIH and for planning, managing, and coordinating the programs and activities of all the NIH components. Program offices in the Office of the Director are responsible for stimulating specific areas of research throughout NIH and for planning and supporting research and related activities. Current program areas are: minority health, women's health, AIDS research, disease prevention, and behavioral and social sciences research.
In July 2009, President
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the ...
nominated Dr.
Francis S. Collins, M.D., PhD, to be the Director of the NIH. On August 7, 2009, the
US Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States.
The composition and po ...
confirmed Collins by unanimous vote.
Program offices within the Office of the Director fund research through the institutes:
See also
* List of Max Planck Institutes
* Center of Advanced European Studies and Research
* Ernst Strüngmann Institute
* List of IBS Centers
References
External links
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Institutes at NIH
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Lists of medical and health organizations, NIH
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