Open AccessEnhancing the Quality of Prevention Research Supported by the National Institutes of Health
Author(s) -
David M. Murray,
Wilma Peterman Cross,
Denise G. SimonsMorton,
Jody S. Engel,
Barry Portnoy,
Jessica Y. Wu,
Paris A. Watson,
Susanne Olkkola
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2014.302057
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , agency (philosophy) , strategic planning , political science , public health , quality (philosophy) , public relations , plan (archaeology) , medicine , environmental health , business , nursing , sociology , geography , marketing , social science , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology , computer science , programming language
As the nation's premier biomedical research agency, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has supported most of the research that underlies the prevention services that are provided to citizens in the United States and around the world. Within the NIH, the Office of Disease Prevention (ODP) has as its mission to improve the public health by increasing the scope, quality, dissemination, and effect of prevention research supported by the NIH. In today's environment, the ODP needs to focus its efforts to address this mission. To do so, the ODP has developed a strategic plan for 2014 to 2018. We provide background on the ODP and key points from the strategic plan.