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It’s a Noisy Planet. Protect Their Hearing® Public Education campaign
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Public Education Campaign
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CDC
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NIDCD
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The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) sponsors It''s a Noisy Planet. Protect Their Hearing®, a national public education campaign to increase awareness among parents of children ages 8 to 12 about the causes and prevention of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). The campaign disseminates messages through print and digital materials, community-based events, school presentations, and other methods. The campaign launched in October 2008 as a follow up to the NIDCD''s Wise Ears!® campaign, which increased awareness about preventing NIHL among workers, employers, and Americans of all ages from 1999 to 2008. The CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has actively collaborated with the NIDCD for both campaigns, and in November 2013 cosponsored a Twitter chat on prevention of noise-induced hearing loss.
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Joint Committee and Joint Commission Meetings
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Meeting/ Workshop
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CDC, FDA, OS
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NCI, FIC, NIAID
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US State Department establishes collaborative agreements with foreign governments in fields of science and technology. These Joint Committee and Joint Commission Meetings (JCMs) facilitate discussion on selected topics creating cross-talk among the equivalent government agencies leading towards future collaborations. The Office of the HHS Secretary (OS), through the Office of Global Affairs (OGA), organizes the operational divisions of the Department of Health and Humas Services (HHS); The Fogarty International Center (FIC) facilitates the participation of NIH Institutes and Centers. For FY2011, JCMs were convened for Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico.
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Joint Fellowship Program
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Training Initiative
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FDA
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NCI
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The objective of the NCI-FDA Joint Fellowship Training Program is to train a cadre of scientists in research and research-related regulatory review, policies, and regulations so that they develop a skill set that bridge the two disparate processes. Fellows will learn to build awareness of regulatory requirements into the early stages of the medical product development process and develop strategies to improve planning throughout research and regulatory review.
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Joint MDA-NINDS Workshop on Best Practices for Gene Therapy Programs
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Meeting/ Workshop
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FDA
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NINDS, NCATS, NHLBI, NIAMS, NICHD
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This Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) co-sponsored workshop will bring together experts from academia, industry, and regulatory agencies to address core challenges in the development of gene therapy for neuromuscular diseases and develop recommendations to help guide specific efforts in neuromuscular disease, as well as in the broader field of gene therapy in neurological disorders. The focus of the workshop will be on three neuromuscular diseases, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), where unmet medical need and the state of the science are compelling.
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Kaposi Sarcoma and HHV8 in Sickle Cell and Other Ugandan Populations
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Research Initiative
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CDC
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NCI
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Epidemiological studies are being conducted to assess small-area variation of HHV8 and to learn about socio-demographical and environmental risk factors for HHV8 and Kaposi sarcoma in Uganda.
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Kidney Interagency Coordinating Committee (KICC)
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Other
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AHRQ, CDC, CMS, FDA, HRSA, IHS
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NIDDK, NHLBI, NIA
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The goal of the Kidney Interagency Coordinating Committee (KICC) is to encourage cooperation, communication, and collaboration among all federal agencies involved in kidney research and other activities. The National Kidney Disease Education Program (NKDEP) convenes KICC annually to share information on various agencies'' programs and activities related to chronic kidney disease (CKD) and to discuss ways to improve the coordination of Federal responses to CKD. The KICC Consists of Federal Representatives involved in CKD programs.
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Know Stroke in the Community
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Public Education Campaign
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CDC
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NINDS
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The NINDS developed the Know Stroke campaign to help educate the public about the symptoms of stroke and the importance of getting to the hospital quickly. The campaign includes outreach to consumers and health care professionals using mass media, grassroots outreach, partnerships, and community education.
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Leprosy Research Support and Maintenance of an Armadillo Colony
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Resource Development
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HRSA
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NIAID
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This interagency agreement helps to establish and maintain a colony of wild-caught armadillos that are infected with M. leprae. Infected organs and tissues are used to develop and make available standardized research reagents to investigators worldwide. This project also includes studies to optimize infection of armadillos for maximum yield, early identification of animals that were successfully infected, and studies to assess the time course and location of infection to create additional samples for disease studies. The project also maintains the mouse footpad model and other methods to amplify M. leprae bacteria from human specimens before they can be used to infect armadillos.
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Let''s Move/HHS Healthy Weight, Nutrition and Physical Activity Work Group
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Other
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ACF, AHRQ, CDC, CMS, FDA, HRSA, IHS, OS, SAMHSA
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NIDDK, NCI, NHLBI, NICHD, OD/DPCPSI/ODP
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Healthy Weight, Nutrition and Physical Activity Work Group aims to improve dietary and physical activity behaviors through targeted sector initiatives.
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Linkage to Care Committee for Adolescents with HIV/AIDS
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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CDC, HRSA
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NICHD
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The purpose of this committee is to collaborate with other HHS agencies to improve the outcome of adolescents with HIV/AIDS.
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