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This section of the NIH website provides tools to help improve the quality and usefulness of information for the public about science and health. We serve many audiences at NIH and our grantee institutions across the country: scientists, health professionals, reporters, communicators, health educators, patients, caregivers, and the general public. Our goal as communicators is to contribute to public understanding of the nature of biomedical research and its role in health.
Please feel free to email the NIH Science, Health and Public Trust Communications working group with your thoughts and suggestions.
Explaining How Research Works
Scientific research can be a long and winding road filled with twists and turns, even changing directions at times.
The Challenges of Understanding and Communicating Health Risks
Health communicators of all kinds—from researchers to journalists to health care workers—often find themselves talking and writing about risks.
A Checklist for Communicating Science and Health Research to the Public
As science and health communicators, our main goal is to share our institutions’ wealth of science and health knowledge.
Understanding Clinical Studies
Part of the challenge of explaining clinical research to the public is describing the important points of a study without going into a detailed account of the study’s design.