On August 7, the Presidents of PAA and APC sent the below comments to the Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) in response to a document that the Committee recently released, “Reforming the National Institutes of Health (NIH): Framework for Discussion.” The document recommends numerous policy changes, including a dramatic restructuring of the NIH that would reduce the existing 27 Institutes and Centers (ICs) to 15, eliminate the National Institute of Child and Human Development, and rename the National Institute on Aging the National Institute on Dementia.