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HHS official pens a caustic resignation

Nielk

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The Washington Post article - http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...8b5736-aad7-11e3-adbc-888c8010c799_story.html

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“Since I’ve been here I’ve been advised by my superiors that I had ‘to make my bosses look good.’ I’ve been admonished: ‘Dave, you are a visionary leader but what we need here are team players.’ Recently, I was advised that if I wanted to be happy in government service, I had to ‘lower my expectations.’ The one thing no one in OASH [Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health] leadership has said to me in two years is ‘how can we help ORI better serve the research community?’ Not once.”
 

Nielk

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Science Insider: http://news.sciencemag.org/people-e...onduct-official-quits-frustration-bureaucracy

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In his letter, David Wright writes that working with ORI’s “remarkable scientist-investigators” was “the best job I’ve ever had.” But that was only 35% of his job; the rest of the time he spent “navigating the remarkably dysfunctional HHS bureaucracy” to run ORI. Tasks that took a couple of days as a university administrator required weeks or months, he says. He writes that ORI’s budget was micromanaged by more senior officials, and that Koh’s office had a “seriously flawed” culture, calling it “secretive, autocratic and unaccountable.” For example, he told Wanda Jones, Koh’s deputy, that he urgently needed to appoint a director for ORI’s division of education. Jones told him the position was somewhere on a secret priority list of appointments. The position has not been filled 16 months later, David Wright notes.

OASH itself suffers from the tendency of bureaucracies to “focus … on perpetuating themselves,” David Wright writes. Officials spent “exorbitant amounts of time” in meetings and generating data and reports to make their divisions look productive, he writes. He asks whether OASH is the proper home for a regulatory office such as ORI, noting that Koh himself has described his office as an “intensely political environment.”
 

Ren

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Does anyone know if any of our communities' problem studies have been reported to ORI (Office of Research Integrity)?

I was also wondering, for example, if any of the various studies discussed/critiqued by Tom Kindlon (or others who do such work?) have been funded, in part perhaps, by NIH.

Do research publications/studies generally/or ever state who funded them? Or is this something you have to dig for elsewhere?

For anyone interested, I found this NIH site: http://report.nih.gov/award/index.cfm#tab1
 
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