As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House after expressing plans to overhaul the federal public health infrastructure, National Institutes of Health leaders launched a yearlong project to rework the organization’s mission and structure.

NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli on Tuesday told a panel of institute directors chosen for an internal review process that rebuilding trust in the organization post-COVID pandemic is a top priority, the Washington Examiner reported.

“Trust has to be earned, and it has to be earned every single day,” Bertagnolli said during the public event. “And the ways that you earn trust are, first and foremost, delivering what people need, really moving the needle on health problems that are plaguing people, and making it very clear and transparent as to why and how all of the results that come out of the NIH help to achieve that.”

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