A Review of the President’s FY 2023 Funding Request and Budget Justification for the National Institutes of Health

Senate Appropriations Committee
   Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
138 Dirksen

05/17/2022 at 10:00AM

Hearing page

NIH Budget Requests

Witnesses:

  • Dr. Lawrence Tabak, Acting Director, National Institutes of Health
  • Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
  • Dr. Gary Gibbons, Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
  • Dr. Joshua Gordon, Director, National Institute of Mental Health
  • Dr. Richard Hodes, Director, National Institute on Aging
  • Dr. Nora Volkow, Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse

$1 billion of the National Cancer Institute’s $6.7 billion budget request is for research in carcinogens.

The FY2023 budget request for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is $932.1 million for non-Superfund-related activities, including the NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative and the Climate Change and Human Health Literature Portal. NIEHS separately runs the Superfund Research Program and Worker Training Program, with a FY 2023 Budget Request of $83.0 million.