National Postdoctoral Association

General Recommendations

• NPA's Agenda for Change
• NPA Recommendations for Postdoctoral Policies and Practices
• NPA White Paper on Visa Reform (8/20/2008)
• NPA Position Statement on Unions (updated 5/18/06)

Recommendations & Comments to or in regard to the National Institutes of Health

• NPA Written Testimony to Senate April 2012
• NPA Response to the NIH Biomedical Working Group, NOT-OD-11-106-3 (Oct. 7, 2011)
  
• NPA Response to NIGMS Request for Input Regarding Training  (April 21, 2010)
• NPA Written Testimony to Senate (April 10, 2010)
• NPA Written Testimony to House (April 15, 2010)
• NPA Statement (Sept. 09) (statement to NIH Director Francis Collins)
• NPA Letter to NIH Regarding the Stipend Freeze
• NPA Position Paper on NRSA Postdoctoral Stipends (6/20/2008)
• NPA Comments on NIH NRSA Policy Changes (6/3/2006)
• NPA Hails New Career Award (1/27/2006)
• NPA Response at the NIH Town Hall Meeting (11/30/2005)
• NPA White Paper to the National Institutes of Health

Recommendations & Comments to the National Science Foundation

• NPA Comments on NSF Research Integrity Requirement (3/31/2009)
• NPA Recommendations on NSF Mentoring Implementation (2/21/2008)
• NPA Comments on the NSF Strategic Plan (1/20/2006)
• NPA Recommendations to National Science Board

Recommendations & Comments to the National Academies of Science

• As of Nov. 14, 2011, the NPA had submitted several documents to the National Academies of Science’s (NAS) Committee project: The State of the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers Revisited.
• NPA Response to the Bridges to Independence (5/11/2005)
• NPA Recommendations to BHEW of NAS

Recommendations & Comments on Other Federal Policies

• NPA Response to OSTP RFI - 12-6-2011 (NPA response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Request for Information: Building a 21st Century Bioeconomy)
• NPA Comments on Federal Postdoc Training Principles (1/31/2006)
• NPA Response to the "National Needs" Report
• NPA Supports Multiple PI's on Grants and Contracts (9/16/05)