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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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White House Interagency Committee on the Implementation of the US Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based Violence Globally
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Other
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ACF, CDC
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NIDA, OD/DPCPSI/ORWH
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This is an Interagency Working Group to address gender-based violence, which shall coordinate implementation of the Strategy by the executive departments and agencies that are members of the Working Group (member agencies) in accordance with the priorities set forth in section 3 of the Executive Order 13623.
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WHO World Mental Health Surveys Consortium
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Other
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SAMHSA
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NIDA, NIMH
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The World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative is a project of the Assessment, Classification, and Epidemiology (ACE) Group at the World Health Organization (WHO) coordinating the implementation and analysis of general population epidemiologic surveys of mental, substance use, and behavioral disorders in countries in all WHO Regions. NIH provides representatives to this body. NIDA also participates in the Drug Dependence and Nosology Subgroups.
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Wireless Medical Technologies
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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FDA, OS
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NIBIB, CIT, NIA, NIAAA, NIAID, NICHD, NIMH, NINDS, NLM
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The Wireless Medical Technologies Working Group was launched as follow-up to the Personal Motion Technologies for Healthy Independent Living workshop in 2010. The working group provides a forum for information sharing among federal agencies to better understand challenges and barriers to wireless medical technology adoption including issues of engineering development, regulatory issues governing safety, effectiveness and communication, relevant standards, and reimbursement.
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Women and Reentry Steering Committee
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Other
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ACF, CDC, CMS, HRSA
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NIDA, OD/DPCPSI/OBSSR
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This is a subgroup that reports to the Federal Interagency Reentry Council. The purpose of this group is to bring together numerous federal agencies to make communities safer, assist those returning from prison and jail in becoming productive, tax-paying citizens, and save taxpayer dollars by lowering the direct and collateral costs of incarceration.
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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, NCATS, NHLBI, NICHD, NIGMS, OD/OER
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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
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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 Research Related to Evidence Based Policy
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Other
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ACF, CDC, OS
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NIDA
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This workgroup focuses on research issues surrounding evidence-based policy. Discussions generally include cross cutting questions-- e.g., What is evidence-based? What are key lessons that have been learned as evidence-based policy has been rolled out? In addition, this group provides update on meetings and projects related to evidence-based policy.
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Working Group on the Intersection of HIV/AIDS, Violence Against Women and Gender-related Health Disparities
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Other
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ACF, CDC
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NIDA, OD/DPCPSI/OAR, OD/DPCPSI/ORWH
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This work group is in response to the Presidential Memorandum calling for executive departments and agencies to build on their current work addressing the intersection of HIV/AIDS, Violence Against Women and Girls and Gender-related Health Disparities by improving data collection, research, intervention strategies, and training.
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Working Groups to Develop Federal HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment Guidelines
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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CDC, FDA, HRSA
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OD/DPCPSI/OAR, NICHD, NIMH
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Working Groups of HIV experts from across the country, including physicians, pharmacists, researchers, and HIV treatment advocates responsible for writing, reviewing, and updating HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment guidelines.
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