“National Institutes of Health (NIH) research has consistently shown that nutrition is a central driver of chronic disease risk…If you want to Make America Healthy Again you have to address the food that we eat in this country, and for the first time in decades you are seeing real change.” -Dr. Jay Bhattacharya | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Dr. Francis Collins explains how cuts to NIH funding under the Trump administration have already started to shape the future of health care in the U.S. #Colbert | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: “I am tremendously proud of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) employees because we got all of those grants reviewed by the end of the fiscal year…this year, even with the shutdown, we’ve figured out processes to be more efficient, reduce the amount of administrative burden and red tape to make researchers’ lives easier to propose amazing ideas that’ll improve health.” | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services