Federal Grants Management: Viewpoint of the Scientific Community

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• Journal Article:
  Public Health Reports
• Personal Author:
  Hubbard, W. N.
• Description:
  It is possible to look upon grants management in its relation to the scientific community as an exercise in bringing to this group a keener awareness of the significance of fiscal accountability for categorical efforts. In this context, the importance of the budget as a fiscal expression of program would be emphasized. The program itself ideally would be a statement of the nature of the effort which the scientist himself wished to undertake. This program would be developed and evaluated on the basis both of its scientific merit and its relevance to the interests of the potential sup- plier of funds. The budget would then be prepared as a reflection of this program and be altered only as the program itself changed. At the conclusion of the described effort, expenditures within the budget would have been made in such a way that it would be possible retrospectively to confirm that expenditures had been for the originally approved purposes. It is difficult to imagine why such an obviously reasonable effort Should lead to a "crisis of confidence" between those responsible for awarding and managing grants and the scientific community. Rather than discuss the operational technicalities, I should like to describe what I believe to be some of the funda¬ mental reasons for this present crisis.
• Subjects:
  Humans Public Health Administration Research Support As Topic Residence Characteristics Science
• Source:
  Public Health Rep. 80(8):677-680
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Pubmed ID:
  14318941
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC1919659
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• Pages in Document:
  4 pdf pages
• Volume:
  80
• Issue:
  8
• Citation:
  Hubbard Wn Jr. Viewpoint of the Scientific Community. Public Health Rep (1896). 1965 Aug;80(8):677-80. PMID: 14318941; PMCID: PMC1919659
• Collection(s):
  Public Health Reports
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