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United States Global Change Research Program, (Interagency) Climate Change and Human Health Group
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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CDC
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NIEHS, FIC
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This is a pilot crosscutting interagency working group under the GCRP focused specifically on coordinating Federal activities related to the impacts of climate change, mitigation, and adaptation on human health.
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US-Ireland Research & Development Partnership
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Research Initiative
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OS
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NHLBI, NIDDK
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The goal of the partnership is to stimulate collaborative research between the U.S. and Ireland in the area of cystic fibrosis, diabetes, and nanotechnology. Government agencies and non-profit organizations, including NHLBI, NIDDK, NSF, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, R&D Office (Northern Ireland), Dept. of Enterprise, Trade, and Employment, Health Research Board, Science Foundation Ireland and Inter-Trade Ireland, participate. As an outgrowth of the U.S.-Ireland R&D Partnership, a grant proposal on the role of anaerobic bacterial infection in CF was submitted to NIH which involves U.S.-Ireland tripartite scientific collaboration.
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Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
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Meeting/ Workshop
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CDC
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CC
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A series of meetings were held to develop a practical new national surveillance definition for ventilator-associated pneumonia.
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Violence Against Women Steering Committee (DHHS VAW)
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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ACF, AoA, AHRQ, CDC, HRSA, IHS, OS, SAMHSA
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OD, NIA, NIAAA, NICHD, NIMH, NINR, NLM
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This is the committee that represents DHHS as part of the implementation of the VAW Act. This committee collaborates with the Department of Justice to implement the VAW Act.
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Vitamin D Standardization Program
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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CDC
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OD
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This program is directed toward standardizing the measurement of vitamin D status in national health surveys worldwide.
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Washington Circle Initiative
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Meeting/ Workshop
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SAMHSA
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NIDA, NIAAA, NIMHD
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Provided funding to support meeting to facilitate development of research on developing and validating performance measures for integrated treatment for substance abusers.
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We Can! (Ways to Enhance Children’s Activity and Nutrition)
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Public Education Campaign
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CDC, HRSA
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NHLBI, NCI, NICHD, NIDDK
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Through the We Can! program, the NIH and other HHS partner agencies disseminate strategies, tools, and resources to community organizations, the general public, healthcare providers, and other groups. Strategies focus on three behaviors: eating right, moving more, and reducing screen time to help prevent obesity in youth. Parents and caregivers of 8-13 year olds are the primary focus of the program''s outreach.
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Work Group on Harmonizing Hemoglobinopathy Data Sets
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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CDC, HRSA
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NLM, NHLBI, NICHD, NIGMS, OD
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The mission of the Workgroup for Harmonizing Hemoglobinopathy Data Sets is to create a resource for federal programs and extramural communities to use in data systems which incorporate data elements in hemoglobinopathies. Specifically this entails establishing a Hemoglobinopathies Uniform Medical Language including:
- Identifying specific goals and objectives for the kind of data that are required by these programs
- Case definitions for electronic data systems at all levels
- Consensus about conditions and data elements to be included
- Differentiation between data needs for surveillance and for registries/biorepository
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Work, Family and Health Network
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Research Initiative
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ACF, CDC
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NICHD, NIA, OD
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The Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation is providing NICHD funds to partially support the "Work, Family, and Health Network," a research project of NICHD. This project is examining the effects of a workplace intervention designed to reduce work-family conflict and thereby improve the health and well-being of employees and their families. There is a modification agreement and the purpose of the modification agreement is to provide continuation of research support for the Work, Family and Health Network (WFHN) "Limited Competition for Evaluating the Health Benefits of Workplace Policies and Practices." The WFHN evaluated the health benefits of workplace policies and practices aimed at ameliorating work-family conflict.
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Workgroup on Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Issues (WANHPII)
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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HRSA
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NIDA, NIDDK
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The mission of the HHS Workgroup on Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Issues (WANHPII) is to improve communication, coordination, agency policies, programs, and evaluations that impact the health, health care, human services and wellbeing of Asian Americans (AA), Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islander (NHOPI) communities.
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