The committee will conduct a review and prepare a report to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Agency for Healthcare and Quality Research (AHRQ) on issues regarding research personnel needs as they relate to the administration of the National Research Service Awards (NRSA) program. The committee will gather and analyze information on employment and education trends of research scientists in the broad fields of the biomedical, behavioral, and clinical sciences, and in the subfields of oral health, nursing, and health services research. The analysis will take into consideration the demographic changes in the US, changes in disease pattern, and changes in scientific opportunity. The committee will deal broadly with the training needs and direction of the NRSA program as they relate to relevant federal research training policies, the impact of changes in the level of support for research and training, and the emergence of cross-disciplinary research areas. The analysis will include an estimate of the future supply of researchers from the current and future population of graduate students and postdoctorates, and the committee will make recommendations on the overall production rate of research personnel in the biomedical, behavioral, and clinical sciences for the period 2010 to 2015 as it relates to the NRSA program. Separate consideration will be given to training with respect to NIH dual degree and career development programs, and NIH programs that are designed to address diversity in the research workforce.
Committee Meeting One
May 20-21, 2008, Washington, DC
Committee Meeting Two
October 15-16, 2008, Washington, DC
View meeting agenda (with links to speakers' Powerpoint presentations)
Committee Meeting Three
January 30-31, 2009, Washington, DC
Committee Meeting Four
April 27-28, 2009, Washington, DC
Committee Meeting Five
August 18-19, 2009, Washington, DC
Committee Meeting Six
October 19-20, 2009
Washington, DC
Reports
Report forthcoming
Roger Chalkley - (Chair)
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
William T. Greenough - (Co-Vice Chair)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David Korn - (Co-Vice Chair)
Association of American Medical Colleges
Charles N. Bertolami
New York University
Thomas O. Daniel
Celgene Corporation
Susan Fiske
Princeton University
Margaret Grey
Yale University School of Nursing
James S. Jackson
University of Michigan
Joan M. Lakoski
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Keith Micoli
NYU School of Medicine
Mark V. Pauly
University of Pennsylvania
Larry Shapiro
Washington University in St. Louis
Edward Shortliffe
American Medical Informatics Association
Donald Steinwachs
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Valerie Wilson
Brown University
John Wooley
University of California, San Diego
Allan Yates
The Ohio State University
J. Chris White
ViaSim Corporation (Consultant)
Rodolfo A. Bulatao
(Consultant)
the National Institutes of Health
