What role does the National Institutes of Health play in community health?

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is a federal agency whose central role is to conduct and support research on health and disease. That research helps build knowledge used to prevent, diagnose, and treat illnesses. The best answer is “It conducts health-related research”; paying for patients’ MRIs and conducting individual mental health assessments are not the NIH’s general community-health roles.

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