| Interagency Task Force on the Arts and Human Development |
Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force |
ACF, CDC, SAMHSA |
NCCIH, NCI, NIA, NICHD, NIMH, OD/DPCPSI/OBSSR |
Beginning in 2011, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has convened a Federal Interagency Task Force on the Arts and Human Development to encourage more and better research on how the arts can help people reach their full potential at all stages of life. https://www.arts.gov/national-initiatives/task-force/members |
| Interagency Well-being Workgroup |
Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force |
CDC, OASH, ACL, HRSA, SAMHSA |
NIA |
The Interagency Well-being Workgroup coordinates efforts across the federal government to promote well-being as a public health priority. |
| Interagency Working Group (IWG) |
Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force |
SAMHSA, ARPA-H, CDC, FDA, HRSA |
OD/OM, OD/OM/OALM |
White House Interagency Working Group for Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Including all federal agencies and senior leadership from HHS. |
| Interagency Working Group - Harmful Algal Blooms and Hypoxia Research Control Act (IWG HABHRCA) |
Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force |
CDC, FDA |
NIEHS |
This group coordinates and convenes Federal agencies to discuss HAB and hypoxia events in the United States, and to develop action plans, reports, and assessments of these situations. This group was mandated and formed following the HABRCA legislation in 2014. |
| Interagency Working Group on Biological Data Sharing |
Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force |
FDA |
NCI |
The working group will identify the diverse types of biological and clinical data, define specific needs and best practices for storing, managing, curating, archiving, and maintaining the confidentiality and integrity of these data, and define agency roles and responsibilities for addressing research and policy (exclusive of regulatory) priority gaps to enable data sharing. The working group will develop a road map to enable robust sharing and maximize reuse of data, identifying opportunities for interagency coordination, and academic, industrial, and international partnerships. |
| Interagency Working Group on Communicating Hazard Information and Other Types of Uncertainty, NSTC Subcommittee on Social and Behavioral Sciences |
Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force |
CDC, FDA |
NCATS, NCI, NIMHD, NINR |
The primary goal of the SBS is to focus on the ways in which social and behavioral research can be created and mobilized to support the U.S. government in making evidence-based decisions. This subgroup of the SBS aims to increase USG’s effective and equitable communication of hazard information and various types of uncertainty in a variety of domains to the American public. It may explore topics including health communication (e.g., regarding COVID-19 and other public health crises), environmental hazard communication, and climate crisis communication, among others. It will emphasize how approaches informed by social and behavioral sciences can increase the likelihood that diverse subpopulations of the U.S. public will receive the information they need in ways that enable responses consistent with individuals’ overall health and well-being, no matter where they live or how they identify. |
| Interagency Working Group on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and Minority-Serving Institutions (IWG-MSI) |
Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force |
FDA |
OD/SWD |
The Interagency Working Group on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and Minority-Serving Institutions is a working group of CoSTEM, focused on addressing the need for a coordinated Federal approach to carry out a sustained program of outreach activities to increase clarity, transparency, and accountability for Federal research agency investments in STEM education and research activities at HBCUs, TCUs, and MSIs, including such institutions in rural areas. This will be done by identifying and determining the use of existing policies, confirming best practices across agencies, identifying and collecting barriers to performance and implementation, and recommending opportunities for improvement, uniformity, and consistency across agencies. |
| Interagency Working Group on Research and Data Standards |
Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force |
AHRQ, ASPE, CMS, FDA, HRSA, IOS, SAMHSA |
OD/DPCPSI/ORWH |
The Working group integrates women's health across federal research portfolios to develop and strengthen research and data standards on women’s health across all relevant research and funding opportunities. |
| Interagency Working Group on Scientific Collections |
Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force |
CDC, FDA |
NCI, NLM, OD/OSP |
The Interagency Working Group on Scientific Collections (IWGSC) was established by the White House National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) in June 2006. IWGSC currently operates as a subcommittee under the Committee on Science and Technology Enterprise. IWGSC is co-chaired by U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Smithsonian and originally reported to the NSTC Committee on Science. IWGSC’s mission was to assess the status and needs of the scientific collections owned, managed, and/or supported by the U.S. Federal Government, and to recommend ways to improve their management, effectiveness and impact.The IWGSC is currently implementing the three recommendations which:• Formalize each Department’s and Agency’s policies toward scientific collections;• Establish appropriate budgeting guidelines and procedures that ensure proper stewardship for scientific collections, which are considered government assets; and• Create a public clearinghouse for information on the scientific collections that are owned, managed and supported by the Federal Government. |
| Interagency Working Group on the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report |
Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force |
AHRQ, ACF, ASPE, CDC, CMS, FDA, HRSA, IHS, OS |
NCATS, NCI, NHLBI, NIDA, NIMHD, NINR, OD/DPCPSI |
Provide expert scientific guidance for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report. These annual reports measure trends in effectiveness of care, patient safety, timeliness of care, patient centeredness, and efficiency of care. The reports present, in chart form, the latest available findings on quality of and access to health care. |