National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Civics 101

NHPR

History, Government, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Hey folks! We're raising money to support this podcast. Please click this link and donate today! https://goo.gl/6VNE6E Remember the Human Genome Project? The massively complicated international undertaking that aimed to map the entirety of human DNA? It was funded and coordinated in large part by the NIH, or National Institutes of Health. The NIH is a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and is the nation's foremost government funded medical research agency. So how does it work? What do they actually do? Do politics influence their research? To find out, we turn to Dr. Carrie Wolinetz, Associate Director for Science Policy at the NIH. CLICK HERE: Visit our website to see all of our episodes, donate to the podcast, sign up for our newsletter, get free educational materials, and more! To see Civics 101 in book form, check out A User's Guide to Democracy: How America Works by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice, featuring illustrations by Tom Toro. Check out our other weekly NHPR podcast, Outside/In - we think you'll love it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Civics 101 is supported in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
0:04.3	Civics 101.
0:07.8	This is not my mic.
0:08.8	Wait, yes it is.
0:09.8	Hold on.
0:10.8	I'm talking, I'm talking, I'm talking.
0:12.3	My level is just weird.
0:13.3	It's fine.
0:16.3	I'm Nick Capady-J.
0:17.3	I'm Hannah McCarthy.
0:18.3	And this is Civics 101.
0:19.8	Today?
0:20.8	Yes.
0:21.8	Alright, episode is on the NIH.
0:23.8	National Institute of Health.
0:25.3	The National Institutes of Health.
0:27.3	The Tutes, okay.
0:28.3	So what does that mean?
0:29.8	That means that within the NIH there are other institutes that are doing specialized research.
0:34.1	Oh, okay.
0:35.1	And how are they a Civics 101 topic?
0:37.1	Well, we pay for the research done by NIH institutions and the institutions that the NIH funds.
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