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U.S. Breastfeeding Coalition (USBC)
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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AHRQ, CDC, HRSA, IHS, OASH
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NICHD
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The United States Breastfeeding Committee (USBC) is an independent nonprofit coalition of more than 100 influential professional, educational, and governmental organizations that share a common mission to drive collaborative efforts for policy and practices that create a landscape of breastfeeding support across the United States.
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U.S. Burden of Health Disparities Working Group
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Resource Development
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CDC
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NIMHD, NHLBI, NCI, NIA, OD/DPCPSI/OBSSR, OD/DPCPSI/ODP, NIAMS
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Through this project, the U.S. Burden of Health Disparities Working Group at NIH aims to generate a landmark and comprehensive report and public platform with data on U.S. Burden of Health Disparities by Race/Ethnicity, Sex, Age, Socioeconomic Status and Geography. The project entails producing detailed county-level estimates of disease burden stratified by race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status (SES), age, and sex for a vast array of diseases, injuries and risk factors. The report would include a broad set of measures of the burden of disease (e.g., disability-adjusted life years and healthy life expectancy). This project would result in a platform for downloadable, publicly available data review and visualization tools for extracting information on these stratified analyses at the county-level for every U.S. county. CDC/NCVS is providing guidance on vital statistics data, algorithms and procedures used to generate life expectancy estimates, etc., by race/ethnicity.
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U.S. FDA Medical Imaging Drugs Advisory Committee
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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FDA
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CC
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The Committee reviews and evaluates data concerning the safety and effectiveness of marketed and investigational human drug products for use in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures using radioactive pharmaceuticals and contrast media used in diagnostic radiology and makes appropriate recommendations to the Commissioner of Food and Drugs.
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U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)
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Resource Development
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AHRQ
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OD/DPCPSI/ORWH, OD/DPCPSI/ODP
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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is an independent, volunteer panel of national experts in disease prevention and evidence-based medicine. The Task Force works to improve the health of all Americans by making evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services. USPSTF has 30 partners, partnered with AHRQ, NIH. NIH Office of Disease Prevention coordinate the USPSTF activity through NIH ICs.
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Understanding and Identifying the Needs for Medical Devices
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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FDA
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NCATS
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The Institute of Medicine Rare Diseases and Orphan Products 2010 Report recommended that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) perform an assessment of unmet devices needs, and determine the impediments, and options for overcoming these impediments. The assessment was completed and analyzed in 2017. A manuscript and report have been written and will be published soon. The assessment will document examples of compelling unmet needs across sections of medical specialties. Collaborating are the Office of Rare Diseases Research at National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS), and the Office of Orphan Product Development and other parts of the FDA.
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Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus (UMLS)
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Resource Development
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AHRQ, CDC, CMS, FDA
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NLM
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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) integrates and distributes key terminology, classification and coding standards, and associated resources to promote creation of more effective and interoperable biomedical information systems and services, including electronic health records. NLM ingests over 200 different medical vocabulary sources, mapping these vocabularies into a unified terminology set, and providing access to the native versions of these terminologies to enable interoperability between researchers, health professionals and health data systems. Collaborators such as NCI, AHRQ, CDC, CMS, and FDA have provided vocabularies for inclusion in the UMLS and have provided input for UMLS development and enhancements.
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Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)
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Other
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OGA
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NCI
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The Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) is the largest and oldest international cancer-fighting organisation. Founded in Geneva in 1933, UICC has over 1,200 members in 173 countries, enjoys consultative status with the United Nations (ECOSOC) and has official relations with the following institutions: WHO, IARC, IAEA, UNODC. UICC has over 60 partners, including associations working to fight cancer, as well as companies and foundations. UICC is a founding member of the NCD Alliance, McCabe Centre and ICCP. UICC’s mission is to unite and support the cancer community to reduce the global cancer burden, to promote greater equality and to ensure that the cancer control continues to be a priority in the world health and development agenda. Its main areas of activity focus on convening the world's leaders for innovative, wide-reaching, cancer-control events and initiatives; building capacity to meet regional needs; and developing awareness campaigns. The purpose of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with NCI/CGH is to serve as a framework for collaboration between NCI/CGH and UICC to develop and implement joint activities to support global cancer control, leveraging each other’s expertise and experience for greater impact. The focus areas of the Collaboration:• Convening meetings and other events, such as the World Cancer Congress;• Capacity building, such as the UICC Technical Fellowships, and the UICC-led replication of the Project ECHO for Knowledge Summaries for Comprehensive Breast Cancer Control;• Knowledge, advocacy and policy, such as scientific collaboration on the TNM cancer staging system and tobacco control, and the International Cancer Control Partnership (ICCP); and• Additional areas mutually identified by the Participants.
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United States Government Children in Adversity Working Group
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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CDC, ACF
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NICHD, FIC, NIEHS, NIMH
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The United States Government (USG) Children in Adversity Working Group (WG) is a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-led, USG-wide working group aimed at coordinating USG activities focused on at-risk children globally in accordance with Public Law 109-95.
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United States Government Global Nutrition Coordination Plan
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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CDC, FDA
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NICHD
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The purpose of the US Government Global Nutrition Coordination Plan is to strengthen the impact of the many diverse nutrition investments across the US Government through better communication and collaboration and through linking research to program implementation. Through coordination mechanisms, the US Government will maximize its support to country-led programs, continue its global leadership and partnerships, and generate, share, and apply knowledge and evidence in the nutrition sector in order to accelerate progress toward shared nutrition goals. The US Government is committed to improving nutrition throughout the world in order to enhance health, productivity, and human potential.
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United States Government SARS-CoV-2 Interagency Group (SIG), Genomic Surveillance and Bioinformatics Working Group
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Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force
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CDC
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NLM, NIAID
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Interagency working group tasked with reviewing current SARS-CoV-2 genetic surveilence data and applicability of data to public health decisions.
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