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Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention, Intervention, and Recovery
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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ACF, CDC, HRSA, IHS, SAMHSA
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NIMH, NIAAA, NICHD, NIDA, OD/DPCPSI/ODP
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This workgroup meets to provide a forum through which staff from relevant Federal agencies can communicate and exchange ideas concerning how to prevent or stop bullying in schools and communities.
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Federal Primary Care Medical Home Collaborative (PCMH)
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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AHRQ, CMS, HRSA, IHS, SAMHSA
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OD/DPCPSI/OBSSR, NCI, NHLBI, NIA, NIDA, NIDDK, NIMH
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Federal working group designed to share information and develop multi-agency scientific and funding opportunities. Also includes resource development.
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Federal Sudden Unexpected/Unexplained Infant Death (SUID) Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Workgroup
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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ACF, CDC, HRSA, IHS, OS
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NICHD
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This workgroup is a collaboration of Federal Partners to coordinate efforts to reduce infant mortality from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Sudden Unexpected/Unexplained Infant Death (SUID), and to make the Federal effort to address SIDS and SUID more efficient and effective by assuring complete and consistent communication, avoiding duplication of effort, and integrating the varied perspectives and efforts of the different agencies. This workgroup addresses the public health challenges of SIDS and SUID and opportunities for prevention in the United States. The purpose of the partnership is to establish and enhance relationships among Federal agencies with responsibilities for SIDS and SUID. The partner agencies intend to work together to improve communication and coordination, and to collaborate on a range of activities designed to reduce, and, ultimately, eliminate SIDS and SUID, including the elimination of racial, ethnic and socio-economic disparities.
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Federal Supply and Demand of Isotopes
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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FDA
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NIBIB, NCI
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This workgroup was formed as follow-up to the Inaugural Workshop on Isotope Federal Supply and Demand, a workshop now held annually. The workgroup consists of representatives of Federal agencies with the aim of providing a forum for interaction between agencies and departments to communicate about potential shortages of isotopes that are of strategic importance to the nation including the availability of medical isotopes. DOE is charged with the production of isotopes that are not commercially available, and coordinates the informational and production efforts. Dr. Roderic Pettigrew, Director of NIBIB is the NIH point of contact on this topic. The workgroup holds an annual workshop that includes all Federal agencies that use isotopes; the workshop promotes discussion on the use, supply and demand of isotopes in various areas including homeland defense, medicine, agriculture, and basic and applied research,
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Federal Working Group on Bone Diseases
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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AHRQ, CDC, CMS, FDA, OS
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NIAMS, CSR, NCATS, NCCAM, NCI, NEI, NIA, NIAAA, NICHD, NIDCR, NIDDK, NIEHS, NIMH, OD/DPCPSI/ORWH
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An interagency committee focusing on osteoporosis, Paget''s disease, and other bone disorders. It offers a forum for sharing information, learning from each other and invited speakers, and facilitating the development, early in the planning stages, of collaborative research activities based on each agency''s mission. Serves to develop and foster collaborative activities among the government agencies on bone diseases.
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Federal Working Group on Dietary Supplements
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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AHRQ, CDC, FDA
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OD/DPCPSI/ODP, CSR, FIC, NCATS, NCCAM, NCI, NEI, NHGRI, NHLBI, NIA, NIAAA, NIAMS, NICHD, NIDA, NIDCD, NIDCR, NIDDK, NIEHS, NIGMS, NIMH, NIMHD, NINDS, NINR, NLM, OD/DPCPSI/OBSSR
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The Federal Working Group on Dietary Supplements (FWGoDS) is comprised of individuals from federal agencies that share information and discuss issues, initiatives, and research related to dietary supplements. The FWGoDS meets twice a year and serves as a means of communication between the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) and its federal partners.
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Federal Working Group on International Migration Statistics and Research
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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ACF, CDC, OS
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NICHD
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This working group brings together agencies from across the Executive Branch to share current work and to collaborate on joint projects to advance the federal government''s contribution in the area of international migration.
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FedTel: Cross-Federal work group on telehealth
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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AHRQ, CDC, CMS, FDA, HRSA, IHS
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NIBIB, NLM, OD/DPCPSI/OBSSR
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The goal of this work group is to develop a coordinated view of what the Federal government is undertaking in telehealth, in an effort to identify possible collaboration mechanisms and share lessons learned across multiple agencies. Current topics of emphasis include Telehealth and Health Information Technology (HIT); Technology, Innovation and Standards; Public Education of Telehealth; and Access to Health Care.
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Filovirus Animal Non-Clinical Group (FANG)
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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CDC, FDA
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NIAID
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The Filovirus Animal Non-Clinical Group focuses on the advanced development of Filovirus Medical Countermeasures (MCM), both vaccines and therapeutics. The FANG will focus on the product development tools and other interagency product development issues relevant to FDA approval of filovirus MCM. A standing interagency working group, the Portfolio Advisory Committee, oversees the FANG. The FANG will develop strategies to address broadly applicable and interagency product development issues relevant to licensure of filovirus MCM. The FANG will develop consensus recommendations to facilitate standardization of reagents, methods, and procedures across multiple agencies and laboratories.
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Food Safety and Nutrition Working Group
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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CDC, FDA, OS
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NIDDK, NIEHS
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The Food Safety and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG) aims to highlight and promote awareness of an integrated approach to nutrition and food science in academia, and among nutritionists and food scientists; facilitate the alignment of research priorities to address food safety, food quality, and nutrition in single studies; and identify future research areas that can mesh food safety, food quality, and nutrition together.
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