Health Policy

On June 14, House Appropriations Committee released the draft fiscal year 2019 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS) funding bill. Following mark-up of the bill by the House Labor-Health and Human Services-Education (LHHS) Appropriations Subcommittee, it was approved in late June. The committee mark-ups includes several increases for biomedical research and science education:

• $38.3 billion for the National Institutes of Health, an increase of $1.25 billion over FY 2018:
  $2.3 billion for Alzheimer’s disease research, a $425 million increase
  $500 million for research on opioid addiction, development of opioids alternatives, pain management, and addiction treatment.
  $429.4 million for the BRAIN Initiative to map the human brain, a $29 million increase;
  $361.8 million for the Institutional Development Award, a $11.2 million increase;
  $376 million for the All of Us precision medicine study, a $86 million increase;
  $550 million to Combat Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria, a $37 million increase;
  $560 million for the Clinical and Translational Science Award, a $17.32 million increase;
  $12.6 million for the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act;
  $120 million for research on the universal flu vaccine, a $20 million increase;
• “Up to” $30 million for the Cures Acceleration Network, an increase of roughly $5 million over FY 2018.
• $366 million for the Institutional Development Awards Program, an increase of $15 million over FY 2018.
• $7.6 billion for the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, a programmatic increase of $427 million above FY 2018
• $6.5 billion for the Health Resources & Services Administration, a cut of $196 million below FY 2018
• $334 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, level-funded from FY 2018