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U.S. Government response to Fukushima nuclear crisis
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Public Education Campaign
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OS
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NCI
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Scientists were deployed in 2011 for two weeks to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, as part of the U.S. Government response to protect U.S. citizens abroad during a nuclear crisis.
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U.S.-Brazil Joint Commission Meeting on Science and Technology - Working Group on Public Health
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Meeting/ Workshop
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CDC, OS
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NIAID, NCI
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The Working Group on Public Health was established under the JCM to identify and address public health issues of mutual interest and priority.
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Understanding the Context of Health in Persons with Multiple Chronic Conditions
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Meeting/ Workshop
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ACL, AHRQ, CDC, CMS, IHS, OS
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OD/DPCPSI/OBSSR, NCCAM, NCI, NHLBI, NIA
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Meeting to develop a research agenda to explore the role of context in health with persons with multiple chronic conditions.
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Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus (UMLS)
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Resource Development
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AHRQ, CDC, CMS, FDA
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NLM
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NLM''s Unified Medical Language System (UMLS®) facilitates the development of computer systems that behave as if they understand the meaning of the language of biomedicine and health. To that end, NLM produces and distributes the UMLS Knowledge Sources (databases) and associated software tools (programs) for use by system developers in building or enhancing electronic information systems that create, process, retrieve, integrate, and/or aggregate biomedical and health data and information, as well as in informatics research. By design, the UMLS Knowledge Sources are multi-purpose.
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United States Government (USG) Interagency Forensics Advisory Board
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Other
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FDA
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NIAID
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The goal of the Interagency Forensics Advisory is to discuss strategies for the United States Government (USG) in the area of microbial forensics and attribution investigations. One of the first agenda items concerned microbial repositories across the USG with a focus on challenges and gaps.
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Urology Interagency Coordinating Committee
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Other
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AHRQ, CDC, CMS, FDA
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NCCAM, NCI, NIA, NICHD, NIDDK, NINDS
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Public law 99-158 establishes a need for the Urology Interagency Coordinating Committee (UICC) and emphasizes the importance of interagency coordinating meetings. Meetings focus on interagency collaboration to elicit ideas from meeting participants to enhance current research directions within the NIH and form partnerships among agencies.
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US Government Evidence Summit: Protecting Children Outside of Family Care
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Meeting/ Workshop
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CDC, HRSA
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NIMH, FIC, NHLBI, NICHD, OD/DPCPSI/ODP
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Recognizing that all governments need evidence to inform efficacious, effective, and sustainable policies, strategies, and programs to support appropriate action on behalf of children living outside family care, the overarching goal of this Evidence Summit is to provide expert review of the evidence on effective systems to identify, assess, assist, and monitor such children in lower- and middle-income countries.
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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, NHGRI, NIBIB, 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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Value Set Authority Center
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Resource Development
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AHRQ, CMS, OS
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NLM
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The NLM provides an online repository of value sets (code sets from standardized medical vocabularies) that are used for clinical quality measurement in the CMS Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Program (meaningful use). Under this initiative, NLM will provide the ability to author new value sets and edit existing value sets, as well as assist in maintaining the currency of existing value sets.
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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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