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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! (Ways to Enhance Children’s Activity and Nutrition) program, the National Institutes of Health and other U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 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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We Can! Health Education Campaign and the Program Media-Smart Youth: Eat, Think, and Be Active!
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Meeting/ Workshop
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OS
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NICHD, NHLBI
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In FY13, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) held a conference for organizational leaders and partnered with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships to promote the We Can! (Ways to Enhance Children’s Activity and Nutrition) health education campaign and the program Media-Smart Youth: Eat, Think, and Be Active! NICHD and NHLBI staff co-led a series of training webinars, hosted by the Partnership Center, to train hundreds of community leaders across the country in implementing We Can! programs, including Media-Smart Youth.
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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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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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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 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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White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Interagency Working Group
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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AHRQ, CDC, CMS, HRSA, IHS, OS, SAMHSA
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NIDA, NIAAA, NIMH
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This interagency working group coordinates initiatives across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to improve efforts to leverage meaningful use of electronic health records, health information technology, and related research and implementation activities as a means to improve quality, safety, and efficiency for substance use disorder research and treatment.
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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''s Health Research In-Focus: Violence Against Women
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Resource Development
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ACF, CDC
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NIDA, OD/DPCPSI/ORWH
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Led by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the Office of Research on Women''s Health recently published a fact sheet focused on violence against women. The fact sheet highlights the research and activities of the National Institutes of Health in this area as well as the various federal programs addressing violence against women.
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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; and 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 the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (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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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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ACF, CDC, HRSA, OS, SAMHSA
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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 updates 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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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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ACF, CDC
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NIDA, OD/DPCPSI/OAR, OD/DPCPSI/ORWH
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This working 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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