The National Library of Medicine (NLM), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has announced that the NLM is awarding 14 five-year grants, totalling more than $67 million, for research training in biomedical informatics, the discipline that seeks to apply computer and communications technology to improve health. The announcement was made by Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg, Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
For more than 35 years, NLM has been the primary sponsor of biomedical informatics research training in the US. At its current set of informatics training programmes, NLM supports more than 200 pre-doctoral and post-doctoral trainees each year.
Distributed geographically around the country, NLM's informatics training programmes provide graduate degrees and in-depth research experience in one or more of following areas: Health care/clinical informatics; Translational bioinformatics; Clinical research informatics; and Public health informatics.
