SRCD signed on to a Friends of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) letter on the importance of supporting the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NICHD as Congress moves forward with omnibus spending negotiations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 appropriations. The letter was addressed to the Chairs and Ranking Members of the House and Senate Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human, Education, and Related Agencies Services, Committee on Appropriations.
The letter notes, “NICHD has made extraordinary achievements in meeting the objectives of its biomedical, social, and behavioral research mission, including research on pregnancy; reproductive biology; women’s health throughout the life cycle; maternal, child, and family health; learning and language development; population health; and medical rehabilitation... NICHD has helped advance critical research due in large part to the strong bipartisan support and leadership the institute receives from your committees. Therefore, we encourage you to reach a bipartisan spending agreement by December 3, when the current continuing resolution (CR) expires. If the budget cannot be finalized by then, and another short-term CR needs to be enacted, we ask that you please ensure NICHD’s ongoing work is supported.”
The Friends of NICHD is an independent coalition of organizations formed in the mid-1980’s to support the important role of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).