IGF::OT::IGF: Planning Meeting on Valuing the Contributions of Behavioral and Soc

国家卫生研究所与国家科学院签订了一项合同，组织一次专家会议，严格审查为改善健康而对研究进行经济评估的科学现状，并审议为行为科学和社会科学开展这类工作所面临的具体挑战。随着联邦预算的紧缩，所有政府资助的项目都需要制定衡量项目影响的方法。例如，在最近的国会预算论证中，NIH引用了经济学家墨菲和托佩尔的研究成果，以估算长寿收益的美元价值，作为支持NIH研究的一种手段。NIA寻求开发将行为和社会科学研究支出与健康和长寿联系起来的方法。这些方法可能会为其他NIH项目提供有关开发有用指标来衡量项目影响的见解。

NIA has entered into a contract with NAS to organize an expert meeting to critically review the current state of the science on the economic valuation of research to improve health and consider the specific challenges associated with conducting such work for the behavioral and social sciences. With tighter federal budgets, all government funded programs need to develop ways of measuring program impact. For example, in a recent congressional budget justification, NIH cites the work of economists Murphy and Topel in estimating the dollar value of longevity gains as a means of supporting NIH research. NIA seeks to develop methods of connecting spending in research on behavioral and social sciences to health and longevity. These methods could likely provide insights to other NIH programs regarding the development of useful metrics to measure program impact.