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National Institutes of Health (NIH) Funding: FY1996-FY2025 (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised June 25, 2024
Report Number R43341
Report Type Report
Authors Judith A. Johnson, Specialist in Biomedical Policy
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary federal agency charged with conducting and supporting biomedical and behavioral research. Its activities cover a wide range of basic, clinical, and translational research, focused on particular diseases, areas of human health and development, or more fundamental aspects of biomedical research. Its mission also includes research training and health information collection and dissemination.1 About 83% of the NIH budget funds extramural research through grants, contracts, and other awards.2 This funding supports research performed by more than 300,000 non-federal scientists and technical personnel who work at more than 2,500 universities, hospitals, medical schools, and other research institutions around the country and abroad.3 About 11% of the agency’s budget supports intramural research performed by NIH scientists and non-employee trainees in the NIH laboratories and Clinical Center; the remaining 6% funds research management, support, and facilities’ needs. Funding for NIH comes primarily from the annual Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), Education and Related Agencies appropriations bill, with an additional amount for Superfundrelated activities from the Interior/Environment appropriations bill. Those two bills provide NIH’s discretionary budget authority.5 In addition, NIH receives mandatory funding of $150 million annually that is provided in the Public Health Service (PHS) Act for a special program on type 1 diabetes research and funding from a PHS Act transfer. The total funding available for NIH activities, taking account of add-ons and transfers, is known as the NIH program level. Table 1 outlines NIH program level funding over the past 23 years.