Johns Hopkins BSPH Department of Health Policy and Management的动态

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My name's Theodore. I Wash, China. I'm an ICU physician and professor of medicine and health policy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. A lot of our work right now is about trying to understand pneumonia. That work all depends on really intensive computation and the ability to do advanced statistical models. And that all depends on tools that are funded by NIH and direct costs. There are no indirect costs flowing. We can't keep the computers running. If we can't keep the computers running, we can't do the science that we're doing. All the support staff, all the suppliers, all the other folks who keep the buildings running, keep the labs running, keep the hospital running, who depend on the downstream benefits of these NIH funding. And it's not just taking money away from the scientist, it's taking money away from the working people who make these universities often the largest employer in their state. If we're supposed to work without buildings, without computers, without centrifuges, there's no way to get that done from someone else. What's at stake here is the US's dominance in the world of biomedical and health research.