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

NIA与NAS签订了一份合同，组织一次专家会议，以批判性地审查研究的经济价值的科学现状，以改善健康，并考虑与行为和社会科学进行此类工作相关的具体挑战。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（Murphy）和托佩尔（Topel）的工作，他们估算了寿命增长的美元价值，以此作为支持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以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.