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    Partnership continues to be the cornerstone of NORA. This is evident in the exciting NORA-related research partnerships, the continued support from partners on the Partnership Teams, the Liaison Committee and the Federal Liaison Committee, and the number of partners participating in the NORA extramural funding process.

    The NORA extramural grants program has been hugely successful. The number of new NORA grants has increased from 11 in FY 1996 to 86 in FY 1999. Thanks to an $11.3 million Congressional appropriation for NORA in FY 2000, the stage is set for this year's NORA grant cycle to surpass the FY 1999 level. The FY 2000 NORA appropriation has also allowed NIOSH to fund three large-scale intramural NORA projects (see page 8). NIOSH will continue to focus its intramural efforts, often in partnership with external partners, on large NORA-related research studies that can have a significant impact on specific areas of research.

    I'd like to thank all of the NORA partners who have worked diligently to implement NORA over the past four years. NORA was conceived as an agenda for the entire occupational safety and health community. It is the remarkable degree of partnership support and collaboration that has truly made NORA an agenda for the Nation. In fact, the value of NORA as a model for research planning is being recognized well beyond the occupational safety and health community as international organizations, government agencies and, non-profit organizations use NORA as they undertake their own planning activities.

    This point is further illustrated in the remarks of Donna Shalala, Ph.D., Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, at the NORA Symposium 1999: Partnership for Research. "From its [NORA's] beginnings, NIOSH and its partners have understood that a prerequisite to making workplaces safer in this new economy is making sure that no one is left out of the decision making process. That's really the genius of NORA. . . . I've encouraged all my staff to use NORA as a model for building strong research partnerships."

    While we report NORA's 2000 successes in this document, we begin preparations for the 2001 NORA Symposium, which is not only NORA's fifth birthday but NIOSH's 30th anniversary. I hope you will all plan to attend the symposium and continue to help us make history with NORA.


    Linda Rosenstock, M.D., M.P.H.
    Director
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

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    No single organization has the resources necessary to conduct occupational safety and health research to adequately serve the needs of workers in the United States. These constraints mandate that the entire occupational safety and health community engage in collaboration and coordination of its resources. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and its public and private partners developed the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) to provide a framework to guide occupational safety and health research into the next decade—for NIOSH and the entire occupational safety and health community.