When researchers and organizations in a state are awarded funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the impact of that funding reaches far beyond its original recipients.
This report looks at the impact of NIH funding in rural states — where the populations and economies are far smaller and there are far fewer organizations conducting biomedical research than in other states — and how NIH research funding has an exponential impact in these states.
By increasing the overall amount of money available for NIH research from 2016-2022, congressional efforts had a significant beneficial impact on these smaller, rural states. However, had the NIH budget remained flat, much of this benefit would have been lost, along with an untold negative impact on research, innovation and public health.
