POP-UP DIALOGUE | “Navigating the NIH Funding Landscape: A Member Discussion on Recent Cutbacks”

Majid Afshar, MD, MS, Associate Professor, Director, Institute for Clinical and Translation Research (ICTR) Learning Health System, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Affiliate, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Affiliate, Data Science Institute

Christy Harris Lemak, PhD, FACHE, EVP, Research and Learning, Scottsdale Institute

Discussion Questions:

1. How are you currently funding your clinical research? How have you been affected (if at all) by recent governmental cutbacks?
2. How are you adjusting your portfolio of projects? Diversifying funding sources? Identifying alternate strategies for addressing research strategies (e.g., AI, etc.)?
3. What are you anticipating in terms of both short term and long-term impacts on your research budget, staffing and priorities?
4. What are you learning about alternative approaches to public health research, for example:
   1. 1. Strategies for sustaining public health initiatives and the potential for AI companies to fund clinical trials
      2. Partnerships with private sector companies, philanthropy, and state governments