I would just add another point, though. All of this is true. There are also certain research issues where we might want to have our experts around the country. For example, we might want social scientists to help us figure out, based on behavioural economics and social science, the best way to motivate doctors to make these changes, or the best way to present evidence. We might have these centres managing the epidemiology and the surveillance, but we might want to have researchers help to answer questions that would help us make the change better.
Those might be some of the kinds of grants we would still want.