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HRD-81-18 1 (1980-12-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbmq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: FELU~SED tEsgR iCYEDi= . j be Ieeased a Gesa the GeneraI Acontn ffc izetcj th ba-fl appr~oval by the Office ol Curagressoa Religns United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 1 q3lo Human Resources Division B-197656 DECEMBER 30, 1980 The Honorable Edward M. Kennedy Chairman, Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research Committee on Labor and Human Resources United States Senate 114310 Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: Research Planning and Evaluation at the National Institutes of Health and Aspects of Advisory Council Operations(HRD-81-18) This is the second of three reports we agreed to provide you regarding certain aspects of research manage- ment at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Our first report (HRD-80-53, Feb. 28, 1980) dealt with certain activi- ties of the National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Treatment. A third report--dealing with NIH's contract monitoring activities--should be issued by February 1981. I This report discusses NIH's (1) research planning, funding, and evaluation process and the roles of its ad- visory councils in this process and (2) selection of ad- visory council members.- We briefed your office on June 26, 1980, on the results of-our work. This report summarizes the matters we discussed during the briefing. Enclosures I to III contain information on: --The objectives, scope, and methodology of our review. (See enc. I.) -ZHow four institutes--the National Cancer Institute; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases; and the National Eye Institute-- plan, fund, and evaluate research activities._ Basically,,we found that (1) while the institutes establish their own planning processes, the methods used, the criteria considered, and the groups in- volved are basically similar, (2) priority research (103950) /-I-110

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