On Wednesday, May 11, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (LHHS) held a hearing to examine the President’s FY 2023 budget request for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Members asked about NIH’s research priorities; ARPA-H; COVID-19 and pandemic preparedness; pan-coronavirus vaccine; ethical alternatives to fetal tissue for research; Undiagnosed Diseases Network; gain of function research; diversifying the biomedical research workforce; opioid overdose deaths; Cancer Moonshot; falls among older adults; health inequities; NIH Equity Action Plan; worsening mental and behavioral health in young people; firearm violence reduction; universal flu vaccine; organ transplants; pediatric research at APRA-H; and stillbirth, among other issues.