Limitations In Public Administration (NIH)

As a federal agency, NINDS must heed federal legislative mandates and statutory provisions liming the use of funds on NIH awards. Considering NIH is funded by tax dollars, many of the limitations are not surprising: anti-lobbying, limitation of use of funds for promotion of legalization of controlled substances, etc. and some appear to be dictated by policy such as gun control, restrictions on abortions, and restriction on distribution of sterile needles. The apparently less impactful mandates such as public access to scholarly publications and salary limitations are the ones that often provoke the greatest compliance discussions at the award institution level. The way clinical trial outcomes are disseminated and publications are provided via open access have direct bearing on the day-to-day activities of research administration. Furthermore the financial viability of an institution determines the ease in which salary payments over the federal cap are absorbed within the unit. Most importantly, …show more content…
Its slogan, Turning Discovery into Health® accurately reflects the mission of the overall agency and its individual institutes. The view of the research administrator can be focused on the specific funding opportunity available to investigators but NIH is greater than the money it awards. NIH provides timely, accurate information about specific diseases and disorders written for lay-individuals and caretakers. Through PubMed, scientists share the most current published information to the research community. Information regarding current NIH funded clinical trials is available as well as outcomes. Furthermore, NIH validates the economic impact of research and the global influence of the United States in terms of scientific innovation. Under the umbrella of NIH, each Institute likewise participates in the discovery of new information for the current generation of investigators and for the training of the next