What is National Institutes of Health?
[[File:NIH logo.svg|right|200px]] The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It is their agency for [[research]]. There are 27 separate institutes and offices. Each of them have separate areas of health which they research. Most of them are located in [[Bethesda, Maryland]]. The NIH made vaccines against [[hepatitis]], Haemophilus influenzae (HIB) and human papillomavirus. The current Director of the NIH is [[Francis Collins]] since 2009. ==history== In 1887, a laboratory for the study of bacteria, the Hygienic Laboratory, was established within the Marine Hospital Service, which at the time was expanding its functions beyond the system of Marine Hospitals into quarantine and research programs. It was initially located at the New York Marine Hospital on Staten Island.[7][8][9] In 1891, it moved to the top floor of the Butler Building in Washington, D.C. In 1904, it moved again to a new campus at the Old Naval Observatory, which grew to include five major buildings.[10] In 1901, the Division of Scientific Research was formed, which included the Hygienic Laboratory as well as other research offices of the Marine Hospital Service.[11] In 1912, the Marine Hospital Service became the [[Public health|Public Health]] Service (PHS).[9] In 1922, PHS established a Special Cancer Investigations laboratory at Harvard [[Medical school|Medical School]]. This marked the beginning of a partnership with universities.[9] In 1930, the Hygienic Laboratory was re-designated as the National Institute of Health by the Ransdell Act, and was given $750,000 to construct two NIH buildings at the Old Naval Observatory campus.[9] In 1937, NIH absorbed the rest of the Division of Scientific Research, of which it was formerly part.[11][12] In 1938, NIH moved to its current campus in Bethesda, Maryland.[9] Over the next few decades, Congress would markedly increase funding of the NIH, and various institutes and centers within the NIH were created for specific research