Impose NIH leadership term limits and block-grant much of NIH to states
Mandate says NIH’s research-directing monopoly should be broken via term limits for top career leaders and congressional consideration of block-granting NIH grants budgets to states.
Mandate
Mandate Ch. 14 (HHS) — NIH Conflicts of Interest: impose term limits on top career NIH leaders; Congress should consider block granting NIH’s grants budget to states to fund their own scientific research.
Undo plan
1) Reverse any block-grant dismantling of competitive national peer review that fragments biomedical capacity.
2) Restore NIH as primary national extramural funding engine with conflict-of-interest reforms that do not destroy expertise.
3) Use revolving leadership norms and IG oversight rather than politicized Schedule F-style purges of science careers.
4) Codify appropriations for multi-year NIH research continuity.
5) Verify: grant success rates, time-to-award, and international competitiveness metrics.