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"When we looked at the public-health relevance, there was no question that these projects should have been funded and should continue to be funded." NIH Director Elias Zerhouni The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1/13/04 ****** "I strongly urge the Members to resist the temptation to select a few grants for defunding because they do not like the sound of them based on one paragraph out of what probably was a number of pages of information. It would set a dangerous precedent and put a chill on medical research if we start to micromanage individual NIH grants. This has worked well over the years. We have had enormous progress because of these grants in achieving medical knowledge and giving the public a better health care system. I do not think this body, this committee, wants to get into the process of reviewing 120,000 grants and trying to pick 40,000 out of that group for funding." Rep. Ralph Regula -- Chairman, House Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Subcommittee, fHouse floor July 11, 2003 ****** I have served on the subcommittee that deals with NIH for a long time, and the one thing I came to understand very quickly is that the day that we politicize NIH research, the day we decide which grants are going to be approved on the basis of a 10-minute horseback debate in the House of Representatives with 434 of the 435 Members in this place who do not even know what the grant is, that is the day we will ruin science research in this country. We have no business making political judgments about those kinds of issues. Rep. David Obey -- Ranking Member, House Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Subcommittee, House floor July 11, 2003 ****** |
A Congressional Briefing
The Coalition to Protect Research (CPR)cordially invites you to a Congressional Briefing
Using Social Network Research to Inform Public Health and National Security
_______________________________________Friday, June 10, 200510:00 – 11:30 am Longworth House Office Building, Room 1539 (Refreshments will be served) _______________________________________
Social networks are based on patterns of interaction among individuals, organizations, groups, and even countries. Our own unique social networks can have profound effects on our physical and mental health and our personal safety. Scientists working with social network models have identified how infectious diseases like SARS and STD’s are transmitted across communities of individuals. Similarly, researchers working with the military have employed social network analysis to identify and track terrorist networks as well as locate terrorist targets. We invite you to join us to hear from distinguished scientists who are applying social network analysis on critical issues ranging from high-risk adolescent behaviors to military intelligence.
Speakers: Brian Reed, Fellow, Center for Research on Military Organization at the Department of Sociology, University of Maryland College Park -- Formalizing the Informal: Social Network Analysis and Resistance Networks
Katherine Stovel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Washington -- Romantic Networks of Adolescents: Results from the Add Health Study
Duncan Watts, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University -- Why Are Epidemics So Unpredictable?
Sally T. Hillsman, Ph.D., Executive Officer, American Sociological Association -- Moderator
Positive RSVPs only by June 8th to COSSA via telephone (202.842.3525) or email (alsharpe@cossa.org)
American Academy of Political and Social Science American Psychological Association American Sociological Association Association of American Medical Colleges Association of Population Centers Consortium of Social Science Associations Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research Mautner Project, The National Lesbian Health Org. Population Association of America Reproductive Health Technologies Project Society for Research in Child Development The AIDS Institute
Updated June 15, 2005
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