Funding

Adequate and predictable funding is essential to support a robust research enterprise.  While multiple stakeholders, including coalition members, fund research activities, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the world’s largest funder of medical research. Following the effort to double the NIH’s budget during the late 1990s and early 2000s the field experienced a lengthy period of flat or declining budgets before rebounding.

Those gains have been erased by flat or reduced funding as well as policies that have paused or terminated research grants, cancelled or delayed pivotal actions, adding time to the grant process and made other changes to the research funding process.

The Coalition has also fought against funding cuts and policies that will undermine the nation's commitment to scientific research, including child health research. We focus on evidence-based advocacy that makes clear the negative consequences that will result from these actions.