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The job of the civil servants at the research councils is not to decide which research to support.
Although funded by government, the MRC is independent in its choice of which research to support.
The Director's Innovator Awards would go to people rather than projects, in a departure from traditional NIH peer review, which uses panels to select which research to fund.
DSM not only influences how mental health specialists diagnose and treat their patients but also sways how US insurance companies decide which disorders to cover, how pharmaceutical companies design clinical trials and how funding agencies decide which research to fund [ 1].
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However, with a smaller domestic pool of peer reviewers, small country research funders have to look abroad for the majority of the peer review effort expended in making decisions about which research (and which researchers) to fund.
Decisions about which diseases to target, which research programs to fund, which populations to prioritize and engage, and how quickly to move to delivery of interventions, all require important but often invisible value judgments.
The extent to which research contributes to changes in health systems management and administration is therefore another important area of potential impacts.
Of particular note is the president's pre-K initiative, which would give many more children access to quality early education — which research shows to increase children's chances to succeed in school and thus later in life.
As in the past, the announcement explains, those comments will be used by program officers to decide which research proposals to fund.
Selecting which research topics to focus on is notoriously difficult.
When he arrived in East Lansing, however, Sonntag was unsure which research problem to tackle.
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