NIH-Funded CBPR: Self-Reported Community Partner and Investigator Perspectives

"I know what CBPR is, now what do i do?": Community perspectives on CBPR capacity building.

BACKGROUND Community-based participatory research (CBPR) offers a promising approach for combating health disparities. CBPR capacity must be developed among academics and communities. Most published CBPR capacity development work focuses on general guidance or individual partnership development. OBJECTIVES Herein we have reported community perspectives on community capacity-building efforts i...

Healing the NIH-Funded Biomedical Research Enterprise

Many feel that the R01 grant system supporting biomedical research in the U.S. is broken, discouraging entry of young investigators into the system and inadequately supporting more established investigators. Here, I argue for a "person-not-project"-based scheme that would permit creative, unfettered research by new investigators, better tie ongoing research contributions to continued funding, a...

NIH funding of the independent investigator.

decelerated markedly before taking a step backward in 2006. But the slumping NIH budget is only part of what went wrong. Another factor has been a major increase in the number of grant applications. After a long slide (itself the result of the previous funding squeeze, see below), the annual number of applications hit bottom in 1998. However, this number rose by more than 40% from 1998 to 2005....

The NIH policy on enhancing public access to publications resulting from NIH-funded research

On February 3, 2005, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced its policy on “enhancing public access to archived publications resulting from NIH-funded research.” Through this policy, the NIH requests that publications resulting from NIH-funded research be deposited by the authors in an archive at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Authors can elect to have their publications rele...

Integrating Economic Analysis into NIH Funded Research webinar summary