| Trial Transparency via Registration and Results Reporting at NIH ClinicalTrials.gov |
Resource Development |
FDA |
NLM, OD/OSP |
The purpose of this trans-NIH, inter-agency collaboration is to implement legal and policy requirements related to disseminating clinical trial information and promote understanding of these requirements through engagement with and the development of resources for stakeholders. NLM collaborates with FDA, OD/OSP, OD/OER, OGC, and other parts of NIH to improve transparency of clinical trials via registration and results reporting at NLM's ClinicalTrials.gov through implementing regulatory requirements and NIH trial transparency policies, including the 2016 NIH Policy on the Dissemination of NIH-funded Clinical Trial Information. NLM also provides technical assistance on reporting policy-related issues and NIH and FDA monitoring of compliance. NLM has also collaborated with OD/OBSSR to develop resources for the behavioral and social science community to support submitting study information to ClinicalTrials.gov and with OD/OBSSR, OD/OSP, OER, OLPA, and OCPL to engage the basic science community and understand their concerns about reporting NIH-funded basic experimental studies with humans to ClinicalTrials.gov. |
| Tribal Epidemiology Centers Program |
Research Initiative |
CDC, IHS |
NIMHD, OD/DPCPSI/THRO |
The Tribal Epidemiology Centers Program develops Epidemiology Centers for ongoing disease surveillance and public health infrastructure for American Indian and Alaska Native communities. NIMHD issued a funding opportunity announcement, the Collaborative Minority Health, and Health Disparities Research with Tribal Epidemiology Centers (R01 and R21 Clinical Trials Not Allowed). PAR-17-484 and PAR-17-48. In addition, in 2022 NIMHD with support from the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) established a Resource Center for Tribal Epidemiology Centers (RC-TEC). |
| Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) |
Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force |
ONC, CDC, CMS, FDA |
OD/DPCPSI/ODSS |
To discuss developing research use case for TEFCA. |
| U.S. Global Change Research Program Interagency Crosscutting Group on Climate Change and Human Health |
Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force |
CDC, ACF, ASPR, OASH |
FIC, NCI, NHLBI, NIEHS, OD/DPCPSI/ODS |
The Interagency Crosscutting Group on Climate Change and Human Health (CCHHG) coordinates, implements, evaluates, and communicates federal research and scientific activities related to the human health impacts of global climate change. With health recently identified as one of USGCRP’s Focus Areas, the CCHHG works to address key gaps related to human health aspects of global change. CCHHG develops data-driven scientific products, such as tools, indicators, and assessments, including the 2016 Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health: A Scientific Assessment. The group also facilitates multi-directional communication among relevant stakeholders to help provide end-user input into federal research efforts. In addition to its U.S.-focused activities, the CCHHG supports USGCRP and its member agencies, including the U.S. Department of State and USAID, by bringing health expertise to international negotiations, collaborative projects, and capacity-building activities. |
| U.S. Government Global Nutrition Coordination Plan |
Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force |
CDC, FDA, OGA |
FIC, NICHD, OD/DPCPSI/ONR |
The U.S. Government Global Nutrition Coordination Plan is an interagency effort to strengthen the impact of the many diverse nutrition investments across the U.S. Government through better communication and collaboration and by linking research to program implementation. Through coordination mechanisms, the U.S. Government is working to 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. At the forefront of the Coordination Plan is the recognition that, as stewards of American investments, U.S. Government agencies must ensure that these investments are used in the most efficient and impactful way possible.https://www.usaid.gov/global-health/health-areas/nutrition/usgplan |
| U.S. Government ORCID Consortium |
Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force |
CDC, FDA |
OD/OER |
The Consortium was created to provide a community of practice to share best practices, facilitate ORCID integrations, and identify and resolve issues, while decreasing costs and streamlining administrative processes and technical support. The Consortium provides and facilitates the Consortium Community of Practice. The Community of Practice is open to all Consortium members interested in participating. It is a place to share best practices and use cases, discuss challenges, raise ORCID awareness, share ORCID integration ideas, identify cross facility/office collaborations, and offer benchmarking to Consortium members. |
| U.S. Preventive Services Task Force |
Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force |
AHRQ, CDC, CMS, FDA, HRSA, IHS, OASH, SAMHSA |
NCI, NHLBI, NIA, NIAID, NIAMS, NICHD, NIDDK, NIMHD, NINR, OD/DPCPSI/OAR, OD/DPCPSI/ODP, OD/DPCPSI/ODS |
The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is an independent panel of non-Federal experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine. The USPSTF uses information from systematic evidence reviews to make recommendations for a broad range of clinical preventive health care services (such as screening, counseling, and preventive medications) that are delivered in or referred from primary care practice. USPSTF recommendations are developed for primary care clinicians, health systems, and policy-makers, and published in the form of "Recommendation Statements." The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has been authorized by the US Congress to convene the Task Force and to provide ongoing scientific, administrative, and dissemination support to the Task Force. The NIH Office of Disease Prevention (ODP) works closely with AHRQ and the USPSTF to provide scientific input from NIH Institutes and Centers on draft research plans, draft evidence reviews, and draft recommendation statements. The ODP also disseminates information to NIH Institutes and Centers about high-priority evidence gaps for clinical preventive services that have been identified by the USPSTF. |
| U.S. Renal Data System |
Resource Development |
CMS, HRSA |
NIDDK |
The United States Renal Data System (USRDS), supported and hosted by NIDDK, is a national data system that collects, analyzes, and distributes information about chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the United States. The missions of USRDS are: (1) To characterize the total renal patient population and describe the distribution of patients by socio-demographic variables across treatment modalities; (2) To report on the incidence, prevalence, mortality rates, and trends over time of renal disease by primary diagnosis, treatment modality and other variables; (3) To develop and analyze data on the effect of various modalities of treatment by disease and patient group categories; (4) To identify problems and opportunities for more focused special studies of renal research issues; (5) To conduct cost effectiveness studies and other economic studies of ESRD; and (6) To make the data available to investigators, and by supporting investigator-initiated projects, to conduct biomedical and economic analyses of ESRD patients. |
| Unified Coordination Group for HPAI H5N1 outbreak |
Committee, Work group, Advisory group, or Task Force |
ASPR, CDC, FDA |
NIAID |
A series of working groups meant to cover USG responses to the HPAI H5N1 outbreak in dairy cattle |
| Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus (UMLS) |
Resource Development |
AHRQ, CDC, CMS, FDA |
NLM |
The NLM Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) integrates and distributes key terminology, classification and coding standards, and related resources to support the development of more effective and interoperable biomedical information systems and services, including electronic health records. NLM ingests over 200 different medical vocabulary sources, facilitates the mapping of vocabularies into a unified terminology set, and provides access to the native versions of these terminologies to enhance interoperability among researchers, health professionals, and health data systems. Collaborators such as the National Cancer Institute, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, CDC, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and FDA have provided vocabularies for inclusion and provide input on UMLS development and enhancements. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/index.html |