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Secretary''s Tribal Advisory Committee (STAC)
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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CDC, CMS, HRSA, IHS, OS, SAMHSA
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OD/OSP, OD/DPCPSI/THRO
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The STAC’s primary purpose is to seek consensus, exchange views, share information, provide advice and/or recommendations, or facilitate any other interaction related to intergovernmental responsibilities or administration of HHS programs, including those that arise explicitly or implicitly under statute, regulation or Executive Order. This purpose will be accomplished through forums, meetings, and conversations between Federal officials and elected Tribal leaders in their official capacity (or their designated employees or national associations with authority to act on their behalf).
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Senior Medical Advisor to Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR)
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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OS
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NCI, NIAID
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A NCI staff member serves as Senior Medical Advisor to ASPR. As such, NCI helps to develop plans for emergency and disaster responses and plays a role in responses operations as needed. A good number of the Operations plans and models that apply to all hazards have been developed from NCI science and knowledge.
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Smokefree.gov
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Resource Development
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CDC, OS
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NCI, OD/DPCPSI/OBSSR
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Smokefree.gov is intended to help individuals quit smoking. Different people need different resources as they try to quit. The information and professional assistance available on this website can help to support both immediate and long-term needs as individuals become, and remain, a nonsmoker.
Smokefree.gov allows individuals to choose the help that best fits their needs. This collaboration also includes a number of smoking cessation text message programs throughout the world: China, Caribbean, Guam, American Samoa, and Samoa.
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Smoking Cessation Services During CDC TIPS II Campaign
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Public Education Campaign
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CDC
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NCI
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This campaign assists in ensuring that 1-800-QUIT-NOW''s counseling services and the National Cancer Institute''s text messaging service and website (Smokefree.gov) have adequate capacity to meet the expected increased demand for services during the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention TIPS Campaigns.
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Society for Prevention Research Annual Meetings
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Meeting/ Workshop
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ACF, CDC
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NIDA, NCI, NIAAA, NICHD, OD/DPCPSI/OBSSR, OD/DPCPSI/ODP
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The Society for Prevention Research was formed in 1991 and has grown from a small group of researchers focused on drug and alcohol abuse prevention and mental health to become a leading scientific organization devoted to advancing prevention science, with 700+ members and a multidisciplinary prevention focus that emphasizes drug abuse, mental health, and HIV/AIDS prevention in addition to diverse, public health domains (e.g., obesity, violence, translational science). The annual meetings promote cross-fertilization of theory, methods, and intervention and provide an opportunity to enhance understanding of the underlying mechanisms of health-related issues with the goal of building the science of effective strategies, and for prevention and health promotion.
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Somatic Cell Genome Editing
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Research Initiative
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FDA
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OD/DPCPSI, NCATS, NCI, NHGRI, NHLBI, NIAID, NIAMS, NIDDK, NIMH, NINDS, OD/DPCPSI/ORIP, OD/DPCPSI/OSC
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The Somatic Cell Genome Editing (SCGE) program aims to develop quality tools to perform effective and safe genome editing in human patients. These research tools will be made widely available to the research community to reduce the time and cost required to develop new therapies. A representative from FDA/CBER plays an advisory role for the program regarding regulatory issues. The program is also coordinating with the NIST Gene Editing consortium and the DARPA Safe Genes program and is exploring ideas for possible synergistic activities.
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Specificity and Quality of Influenza-Specific Antibodies
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Research Initiative
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FDA
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NIAID
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This collaboration supports the evaluation of specificity and quality of influenza-specific antibodies in human subjects that have been vaccinated or naturally infected with influenza. Specific tasks include the construction of phage display libraries, production of recombinant proteins, development of surface plasmon resonance assays and the use of these technologies to measure antibody affinity maturation.
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Standardized Machine-Readable Units of Measure
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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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Historically, NLM has been at the nexus of standards needed to make clinical data flow to and from sources for clinical care, biomedical research, and epidemiologic databases. The big new research initiatives such as PCORI, Precision medicine, and the Cancer Moonshot depend heavily on efficient access to rich clinical data. A core problem of clinical data science is the prevalence of local and idiosyncratic coding systems used by individual care institutions. The major enabler of the use of big clinical Data is the standardization of the coding systems and formats (i.e. message standards) that clinical organizations use. On the coding system side, we have been developing, disseminating, and facilitating the adoption of universal standards, i.e., Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM) for units of measure so that clinical measures that different institutions report in different units of measure could be converted to a single unit of measure, which would simplify their use in care and research. We are working with NIST (DoL) to promote the use of UCUM as a replacement for ISO-8000. We have also developed a web-based open source tool to enable the conversion of units of measure to standard machine-readable format using UCUM.
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Standards for Genetic Testing Report
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Research Initiative
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AHRQ, CDC, OS
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NLM, NHGRI
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This activity aims to develop a standard reporting format for genetic variations using Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) and HL7, for electronic medical records health information exchange, and activities of the Office of the Secretary.
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State Cancer Profiles
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Resource Development
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CDC
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NCI
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The objective of the State Cancer Profiles Website is to provide a system to characterize the cancer burden in a standardized manner in order to motivate action, integrate surveillance into cancer control planning, characterize areas and demographic groups, and expose health disparities. The focus is on cancer sites for which there are evidence-based control interventions. Interactive graphics and maps provide visual support for deciding where to focus cancer control efforts.
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