Extramural Research Program

NIOSH scientists work in multidisciplinary teams and carry out a focused program of intramural and extramural research to prevent or reduce work-related injury and illness. In 1996, NIOSH and over 500 partners established the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA), a framework to guide the efforts of the occupational safety and health community in 21 priority research areas. NORA encompasses research areas such as traumatic injury, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hearing loss, and control technologies. These priority areas were identified through extensive input from NIOSH s federal and nonfederal partners. Since 1996, NIOSH has aligned its intramural and extramural research to increase its investment in NORA priority areas. 

Begun in 1972, the Biological Response Modifiers Program supports intramural and extramural research (including some clinical investigation) on agents or... 

EPA is devoting substantial resources toward finding solutions to these problems. In 1986, 4.2 million dollars will be allocated to fund extramural and intramural biotechnology research programs. 

CDC, DOD, and NIH should develop new and expand upon current intramural and extramural programs that train health professionals in applied epidemiology and field-based research and training in... 

Pollution-prevention research is an overarching activity for which we want a combined in-house and extramural program that is focused on finding ways to eliminate or minimize hazardous solvents, emissions, and waste. In other words, we want to clean up processes to reduce impacts on the environment to examine renewable feedstocks as a process improvement and to minimize water, energy, and materials use in industrial processes. The work that EPA and NSF have funded on pollution prevention has been dominated by the chemical engineering... 

The authors are grateful to Dr. George Small, Turning He and Bnmo Pancorbo for helpful discussions and to the National Institutes of Health (Hematology extramural program, DK-20251) and the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service for support. 

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