Department of Pediatrics, Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
Pediatrics. 2010 Jun;125(6):1259-65. doi: 10.1542/peds.2009-2635. Epub 2010 May 10.
Although pediatric research enjoyed significant benefits during the National Institutes of Health (NIH) doubling era, the proportion of the NIH budget devoted to the pediatric-research portfolio has declined overall. In light of this declining support for pediatric biomedical research, the Federation of Pediatric Organizations held a topic symposium at the 2009 Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting as a forum for discussion of the past and future states of funding, the rationale for directing public funds toward the understanding of child health and disease, and new programs and paradigms for promoting child health research. This report of the symposium is intended to disseminate more broadly the information presented and conclusions discussed to encourage those in the child health research community to exert influence with policy makers to increase the allocation of national funding for this underfunded area.
尽管在国立卫生研究院（NIH）翻倍时代，儿科研究享有显著的益处，但 NIH 预算中用于儿科研究组合的比例总体上有所下降。鉴于对儿科生物医学研究的支持不断减少，儿科组织联合会在 2009 年儿科学会年会上举行了一个专题研讨会，作为讨论过去和未来资金状况、将公共资金用于了解儿童健康和疾病的基本原理以及促进儿童健康研究的新计划和范例的论坛。本次研讨会的报告旨在更广泛地传播所提出的信息和讨论的结论，以鼓励儿童健康研究界的人士对决策者施加影响，增加国家对这一资金不足领域的拨款。
