patients, doctors/health care workers, hospitals, and public health.
Our research is not to inform policymakers, and that will be considered out of scope for NIH funding. This scoping change is already being used during review after the scientific peer review. Notices of “renegotiation” or “rescoping” may be sent to researchers related to this issue
Getting the word out on NIH scoping changes announced yesterday at ASHEcon. As noted on June 8th by the NIH Director, Jay Bhattacharya, grants should not be geared toward policymakers but toward stakeholders who directly benefit from NIH researchers:
In Senate testimony, Brett Matsumoto, Trump's nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, promises to maintain the independence of the agency.
“It is important for the public to be confident that decisions at the BLS are benign driven by science rather than politics."