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The Office of Science Policy Analysis (OSPA) serves as the point office within the Office of the Director (OD) for collecting up-to-date information on NIH scientific accomplishments and discoveries from all of the NIH components; packaging these advances in plain language; and disseminating these discoveries to a wide audience including NIH Senior Staff, Congress, Patient Advocacy Groups and the Public.
Fact Sheets
In 2006, in conjunction with the NIH Director and the Office of Communications and Public Liaison (OCPL), OSPA began the effort “Research Results for the Public.” OSPA designed the format of the Fact Sheets, which takes the reader through the high morbidity and mortality associated with a disease in the past, how NIH research has often dramatically improved patient outcomes and how new discoveries promise to shape future treatment of the disease. The project involves soliciting Fact Sheets from the NIH Institutes and Centers as well as OD program offices on a wide range of important diseases and medical topics. OSPA coordinates the response from the contributors and checks each Fact Sheet for clarity and plain language before deeming the Fact Sheet ready for posting by OCPL. Search Fact Sheets.
Science Advances
OSPA is the point office for the collection of science advances from the Institutes and Centers as well as OD program offices. Approximately 150 advances are collected 3 times a year in order to keep the NIH Director briefed on NIH’s top discoveries. Particularly noteworthy advances are often incorporated into presentations given by the Director throughout the year. Advances submitted in January are used to brief the Director on specific diseases and other areas of biomedical research of particular interest to Congress before the Appropriations Testimony.
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