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Committee on Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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ATSDR, CDC, FDA, OS
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NIEHS, NCATS, NCI, NHGRI, NICHD
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This National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee facilitates communication among government, industry, environmental groups, and the academic community about scientific advances that may be used in the identification, quantification, and control of environmental impacts on human health. New methods and approaches that can be used to identify and control environmental impacts on human health are explored in regular workshops that provide a public venue for exchanging information and discussing potential implications for environmental health decisions.
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Common Data Elements (CDE) for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
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Resource Development
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OS
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NLM, CC, CIT, NCATS, NCI, NEI, NHGRI, NHLBI, NIA, NIAID, NIAMS, NICHD, NIDA, NIDDK, NIEHS, NIMH, NINDS, NINR, OD/OER
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Led by NLM, a Task Force of the NIH Scientific Data Council and others are working to promote the use of common data elements in research, surveillance, and patient registries to facilitate data sharing and reuse. Work to date has produced a portal of NIH projects that use Common Data Elements (CDEs) and, with the assistance of funding to develop data infrastructure to promote patient-centered outcomes research (OS Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund), will contribute to development of a search, retrieval, and repository mechanism that will support and reflect the standards work of the Standards & Interoperability (S&I) Framework Structured Data Capture Initiative. This project contributes to efforts to develop a repository and search tool for identification of CDEs for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research. Initially formed as a work-group of the Trans-NIH BioMedical Informatics Coordinating Committee (BMIC), and changed to SDC Task Force in 2016.
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Community Guide Cardiovascular Coordination Team
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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CDC
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NHLBI
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The purpose of the workgroup is to assess the feasibility of and conducting an evidence-based review to assess the effectiveness of interventions using community health workers for cardiovascular disease prevention and other relevant topics. The completed reviews will be included in, “The Community Guide sponsored by the Community Preventive Services Task Force”.
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Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF)
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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CDC
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OD/DPCPSI/ODP, OD/DPCPSI
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The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) is an independent, non-federal panel of prevention experts that conducts rigorous systematic reviews and provides public health recommendations to the CDC to inform decision-making about policy, practice, and research priorities for community preventive services. Recommendations from the CPSTF are published in The Guide to Community Preventive Services. The Office of Disease Prevention (ODP) represents NIH as an official liaison member and works with the CDC and CPSTF members to ensure that recommendations represent the views, concerns, and needs of the NIH and our constituents. ODP staff also serve on, or recommend NIH scientists to serve on systematic review teams, and help translate CPSTF recommendations into actions.
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Computational Toxicology for NIH Medications Discovery
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Research Initiative
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FDA
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NIDA
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Through an inter-agency agreement, the FDA provides structure-activity, relationship-based toxicity predictions for compounds that are under evaluation in the NIDA Addiction Treatment Discovery Program. On a limited basis, other NIH ICs may utilize this resource by working through NIDA.
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Computer-aided Diagnosis for Radiology Images
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Research Initiative
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FDA
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CC
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This collaboration focuses on the improvement of computer-aided diagnosis for radiology images. Specific applications include computer-aided polyp detection for CT colonography, improvements in the conduct and analysis of observer performance experiments using radiology images, and the use and development of advanced machine learning and receiver operating characteristics methods with application to computer-aided diagnosis.
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Conducting Comprehensive Toxicological Assessments
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Research Initiative
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FDA
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NIEHS
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The purpose of the Conducting Comprehensive Toxicological Assessments Agreement is to conduct comprehensive toxicological assessments on FDA priority chemicals/agents nominated to the National Toxicology Program at the FDA''s National Center for Toxicological Research. Studies can include range finding sub-chronic and chronic, compound-specific mechanistic studies, and consideration of the use of alternate test systems. This combination of studies is designed to facilitate the interpretation of study results in support of comprehensive quantitative human health risk assessments. The primary goal of this program is to develop a comprehensive scientific database that can be utilized to reduce the uncertainty in risk assessment/risk-benefit analysis for specific chemicals with high FDA impact.
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Consensus-Based Entity (CBE) Committee
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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AHRQ, CDC, CMS, HRSA
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NLM
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The Consensus-Based Entity (CBE) Committee is an HHS-wide entity, chaired by ASPE, to provide oversight and input into the execution of ASPE’s legislation-mandated contract with the National Quality Forum (the Consensus-Based Entity) for establishing quality and performance measures. NLM participates as an invited member.
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Contact Lens Safety Campaign
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Public Education Campaign
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CDC
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NEI
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The NEI helped CDC disseminate contact lens safety information via social media during its spring break campaign in March. Additionally, NEI added CDC resources to its Pinterest page.
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Content Standards Workgroup of the Health Information Technology (HIT) Standards Committee
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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OS
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NLM
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The Content Standards Workgroup of the Health Information Technology (HIT) Standards Committee is part of the Federal Advisory Committee that is charged with making recommendations to ONC on standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria for the electronic exchange and use of health information.
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