Advocacy Resources
There is a robust community of committed NIH advocates. UMR is pleased to collect their work and stories here to help tell the story of the value and promise of NIH-funded research.
Dr. Phillip Sharp, Nobel Laureate from MIT, in partnership with DuPont and leading United States research universities, summarizes the remarks of thought leaders on the future of life sciences in America in The Role of Life Sciences in Transforming America’s Future. A final report including analysis and recommendations from the National Academies to the research and public policy communities will be released later this year.
A Broken Pipeline? Flat Funding of the NIH Puts a Generation of Science at Risk, was issued in March 2008. The report chronicles the benefits of the doubling of the NIH budget in the 1990s, but also the risks the flatting of the budget over the last 8 years has posed to a whole generation of researchers and the ideas they could bring to bear in advancing human health and well being.
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology has long collected on this single page many of the resources available to anyone seeking more information about the work, funding, and reporting of the NIH. A key resource we turn to ensure we have all the right facts, figures and compelling ‘proof points’ for NIH funding advocacy.
Since 1989, this group and its more than 500 member organizations has been committed to making research to improve health a higher national priority. Among other reporting on the importance and state of biomedical research, including NIH issues, Research!America publishes regular public opinion polling.
This campaign is a joint effort by the Association of American Medical Colleges and University, Research, and patient advocate partners to build local grassroots support for sustained increases in NIH funding in targeted congressional districts in order to cultivate new, additional champions for NIH in Congress.
