The National Institute Of Health - 1804 Words

The leaders in the National Institute of Health play an important role is shaping the agencies different research plans and activities. The NIH is made up of twenty different centers and institutes each focusing on a different body system or disease of the body requiring their own research agenda. According to the National Institute of Health more than eighty percent of its budget goes to research; funds are granted to over two thousand five hundred universities or research institutions and financially supporting more than three hundred thousand research personnel. In Bethesda Maryland stands the main campus of NIH which houses the largest hospital completely dedicated to clinical research. On this campus are the NIH Intramural Research†¦show more content†¦Continuing the support of the agency National Institutes of Health by its umbrella The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services supports one of the main goals in their strategic plan, Advance Scientific Knowledge and Innovation. When health is absent Wisdom cannot reveal itself, Art cannot become manifest, Strength cannot be exerted, Wealth is useless and Reason is powerless. (Herophilies, 300 B.C.) National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) As a tree grows it forms branches and those branches sprout more helping the tree mature by reaching to catch sunlight, growing taller and stronger this tree will bare good fruit. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine is one of the twenty seven institutes/ centers that make up the National Institutes of Health. Keeping the theme of the NIH, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine also keeps research goals and objectives specifically to â€Å"enable better evidence-based decision making regarding complementary and alternative medicine use and its integration into health care and health promotion.† (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) The mission of NCCAM is to investigate the â€Å"usefulness and safety† of alternative and complementary medicine and the roles they could possibly play in improving health of the nation and our healthcare system by advance research on mind and body interventions,