National Institutes of Health
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- Other Name
- NIH
- Sponsors Type
- Federal/National
- Country
- United States
- Grant Types
- Fellowship/Scholarship/Dissertation Internship/Work-study Research Project Training/Course Travel Workshop/Conference Post-doctoral Collaboration/Cooperative Agreement Equipment/Facility/Organization Artistic/Exhibit/Collection Publishing/Editorial Other
Contact Info
- Phone
- 301-496-4000
- Address
- 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
Last modified on 2025-12-09 03:54:17
Description
WHO WE ARE
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.
WHAT WE DO
Thanks in large part to NIH-funded medical research, Americans today are living longer and healthier. Life expectancy in the United States has jumped from 47 years in 1900 to 78 years as reported in 2009, and disability in people over age 65 has dropped dramatically in the past 3 decades. In recent years, nationwide rates of new diagnoses and deaths from all cancers combined have fallen significantly.
MISSION & GOALS
NIH’s mission is to seek fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to enhance health, lengthen life, and reduce illness and disability.
The goals of the agency are:
- to foster fundamental creative discoveries, innovative research strategies, and their applications as a basis for ultimately protecting and improving health;
- to develop, maintain, and renew scientific human and physical resources that will ensure the Nation's capability to prevent disease;
- to expand the knowledge base in medical and associated sciences in order to enhance the Nation's economic well-being and ensure a continued high return on the public investment in research; and
- to exemplify and promote the highest level of scientific integrity, public accountability, and social responsibility in the conduct of science.
In realizing these goals, the NIH provides leadership and direction to programs designed to improve the health of the Nation by conducting and supporting research:
- in the causes, diagnosis, prevention, and cure of human diseases;
- in the processes of human growth and development;
- in the biological effects of environmental contaminants;
- in the understanding of mental, addictive and physical disorders; and
- in directing programs for the collection, dissemination, and exchange of information in medicine and health, including the development and support of medical libraries and the training of medical librarians and other health information specialists.
Sponsor Relationship
National Institutes of Health is a part of:
The following sponsors are parts of National Institutes of Health:
- Center for Information Technology
- Center for Scientific Review
- Fogarty International Center
- Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
- National Cancer Institute
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
- National Eye Institute
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- National Human Genome Research Institute
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences
- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- National Institute of Nursing Research
- National Institute on Aging
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
- NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research
- Clinical Center
- National Institutes of Health - Office of the Director
- Office of AIDS Research
- Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
- Office of Dietary Supplements
- Office of Research on Women’s Health
- National Institutes of Health - Common Fund
- National Library of Medicine
- Loan Repayment Programs (United States)
- Office of Intramural Training and Education
- Bridging Interventional Development Gaps
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- Network of the National Library of Medicine
- Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
- Public Access Policy
- NIH Almanac
- National Institutes of Health Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- National Institutes of Health - Research Training and Career Development Programs
- Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes Program
- BRAIN Initiative
- All of Us Research Program
- Office of Data Science Strategy
- Forsyth Institute
- AIM-AHEAD
- Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative
- Office of Research Services
- Office of Logistics and Acquisition Operations
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