Title Collaboration Type HHS Participating Agencies NIH Participating Institutes, Centers, and Offices Description
National Coordinated Child Safety Initiative Steering Committee Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force ACF, CDC, HRSA NICHD The Child Safety Network is supported by the National Coordinated Child Safety Initiative Steering Committee which will work to create new synergy among public and private stakeholders and to support the activities of the Child Safety Collaborative Innovation and Improvement Network (CoIIN) strategy teams. The Steering Committee will provide advice to the Child Safety CoIIN and help to communicate the lessons and accomplishments of the Child Safety CoIIN to a broad national audience that will include public health professionals, policymakers, funders, and families.
National Council on Youth Sports Safety Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force CDC NICHD The National Council on Youth Sports Safety (NCYSS), Inc. is a 501(c)(3) that executes its work through a multidisciplinary panel of national experts on various subject matter including medicine, public health, public policy, youth and professional sports, and technology and equipment manufacturing.
National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) Public Education Campaign CDC NIDDK Established in 1997, the National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) is a federally-funded program sponsored by NIH and CDC and includes more than 200 partners at the federal, state and local levels that work together to improve the treatment and outcomes for people with diabetes, promote early diagnosis, and prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes.
National Drug Facts Chat Day Public Education Campaign CMS NIDA, NIAAA, NIMH The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and several partner U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agencies and National Institutes of Health Institutes "Chat" in real time with high school students across the country. The students ask questions (anonymously) on drugs and get research-based responses directly from NIDA and other government scientists.
National Food and Nutrient Analysis Program (NFNAP) Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force CDC, FDA, IHS NCI, NEI, NHLBI, NIA, NICHD, NIDDK, OD/DPCPSI/ODP, OD/DPCPSI/ORWH The generation of original analytical data for foods at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is conducted through the National Food and Nutrient Analysis Program (NFNAP) in collaboration with multiple groups including the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other federal agencies. NFNAP includes statistically based sampling plans for Key Foods, and analysis of foods by qualified laboratories. The five Specific Aims of the NFNAP are to: 1) establish a monitoring program for Key Foods and critical nutrients. Key Foods are frequently consumed foods and ingredients, which contributed, collectively, more than 75% of the intake of any specific nutrient for the U.S. population; 2) conduct comprehensive analyses of selected Key Foods; 3) develop databases for high priority foods consumed by U.S. ethnic subpopulations; 4) develop databases for new bioactive components; and 5) develop a validated database for ingredients in dietary supplements. Analytical data generated through the NFNAP are compiled and released in annual updates of the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (SR). They are also used to calculate estimates for related foods not analyzed, to assess nutrient variability, and to evaluate methods for estimating the nutrient content of multi-ingredient foods. These values will be used by the Food Surveys Research Group (FSRG), Agricultural Research Service (ARS) to develop the Food and Nutrient Dataset for Dietary Surveys used in the “What We Eat in America” (WWEIA) component of NHANES.
National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force CDC NHLBI, NHGRI, NINDS The Forum was founded to implement a public health action plan to prevent heart disease and stroke.
National Glycohemoglobin Standardization Program (NGSP) Public Education Campaign CDC NIDDK The purpose of the NGSP (originally the National Glycohemoglobin Standardization Program) is to standardize Hemoglobin A1c test results to those of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) and United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) which established the direct relationships between HbA1c levels and outcome risks in patients with diabetes.
National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) Health Survey CMS, OS NIA The National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) will examine how the daily lives of older adults change as they age. This research will help scientists understand the social and economic consequences of late-life disability for individuals, families, and society.
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) Health Survey CDC, FDA, OS OD/DPCPSI/ODP, NCI, NHLBI, NIA, NIDDK A program of studies designed to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and children in the United States. The survey is unique in that it combines interviews and physical examinations.
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) - Audiometric Exams and Hearing-Related Questions Health Survey CDC NIDCD To provide support to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC for audiometry testing and related questions on hearing loss and noise exposure in adults ages 20 to 69 years in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) for data collection years 2015–2016. The study collects pure-tone, air conduction hearing thresholds at .5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8 kHz in each ear separately, as well as otoscopic exams, tympanometry, and acoustic reflexes on representative samples of the non-institutionalized U.S. population in sound-treated booths meeting recommended ANSI standards. Questionnaire information about tinnitus (frequency and degree of burden), use of hearing aids and other assistive devices, as well as exposure to firearms or other sources of loud noise are collected in home interviews prior to the subjects’ visit to the mobile exam centers (MECs) for audiometric exams. A similar hearing component was part of earlier NHANES, 1999–2004, and NHANES 2011–2012 conducted on a representative samples of U.S. adults, ages 20 to 69 years. One of the Healthy People 2010 goals is to assess (with the goal of reducing) noise-induced hearing loss in adults. For this purpose, audiograms are examined and “notches” identified in the higher frequency ranges at 3, 4, or 6 kHz as a surrogate marker of noise exposure. Computer algorithms to identify the notches have been developed. The NHANES, 1999–2004, data serve as a baseline, but to assess progress on this goal in Healthy People 2020, hearing thresholds of U.S. adults must be measured again in NHANES. NCHS directs the data collection contractor (i.e., WESTAT) in establishing and revising protocols for the hearing component and in preparing training and field manuals. NCHS provides NIDCD with an opportunity to collaboratively review summary data for purposes of quality control during the data collection period and, also, provides NIDCD with a data file for quality review approximately three months before the Public Use data release.