NIH plans new trans-agency office

NIH plans new trans-agency office

NIH’s budget plans for FY2006 include creation of a new Office of Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives within the Office of the Director. The purpose of the new office is to help coordinate trans-NIH initiatives like the obesity project and the NIH Roadmap plan.
NIH Director Elias Zerhouni said that the new office will create "better institutional tools to analyze, assess and manage the NIH-wide research portfolio," including "an improved process for collecting data on various diseases, conditions and research fields, and improvements in data about burden of disease." The office will also seek advice from within NIH and from the public about ways to coordinate research between institutes and to set priorities for new trans-NIH initiatives.

More about the new office in the at NIH FY 2006 budget justification.