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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member committee, which met for the first time on Monday, will recommend to the Department of Health and Human Services ways to strengthen the position of NIH director to better meet the scientific challenges of the 1990s, said Patricia Hoban, a senior policy analyst in the department...
...Secretary for Health and Human Services Louis B. Sullivan] wants to take a look at the structure of the NIH to see how it can be strengthened and work more effectively," said department spokesperson Robert Schmermund...
...interview yesterday, Wilson attributed Danforth's withdrawal to problems caused by a single individual in the personnel office. She said that both Bush and White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu have assured Sullivan that abortion will not be a litmus test issue for the NIH position...
More important criteria, she said, are the "scientific excellence and leadership capability" needed to handle the problems the NIH will face over the next decade...
...capable NIH director will need to be able to respond quickly to severe biological and medical problems, such as the AIDS crisis, "without being delayed by too many organizational layers," Wilson said...