Administration for Children and Families
The Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) implements the provisions of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 1990 which calls for increased independence, pro details...
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Access Board: United States Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board
Created in 1973, the Board is the federal agency which develops minimum guidelines and requirements for standards issued under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Architectural Barriers details...
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Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is responsible for promoting the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities. ACF brings together in one organ details...
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Administration for Native Americans, Administration for Children and Families/HHS
The Administration for Native Americans (ANA) promotes the goal of social and economic self-sufficiency of American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and other Native American Pacific Islande details...
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Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability
The purpose of the Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability is to advise, assist, consult with, and make recommendations to the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Health regarding: t details...
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is the primary source of Federal support for research on problems related to the quality and delivery of health services. The Healthcare Research and Qua details...
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Publications Clearinghouse, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) publications cover such topics as medical treatment effectiveness, health care costs and util details...
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Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Information Center, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The role of this agency is to implement the laws that protect the public from hazardous wastes and environmental spills of hazardous substances. ATSDR is charged under the Superfund Act of 1980 to ass details...
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Agricultural Research Service
The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the main in-house research arm of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). ARS conducts research to develop and transfer solutions to agricultura details...
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AIDSinfo
AIDSinfo is a central resource for current information on federally and privately funded clinical trials for AIDS patients and others infected with HIV. AIDS clinical trials evaluate experimental drug details...
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Air Force Surgeon General 
The Office of the Air Force Surgeon General (AF/SG) develops and implements medical programs and policies that provide for the health care of active duty and retired military personnel and their famil details...
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Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center, National Institute on Aging
The Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral (ADEAR) Center is a service of the federal government's National Institute on Aging (NIA), one of the National Institutes of Health. The Center provides details...
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American Indian Environmental Office, EPA
American Indian Environmental Office (AIEO) coordinates the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-wide effort to strengthen public health and environmental protection in Indian Country, with a special details...
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Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
The purpose of this agency is to provide leadership in ensuring the health and care of animals and plants, improving agricultural productivity and competitiveness, and contributing to the national eco details...
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Army Corps of Engineers
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is made up of approximately 34,600 civilian engineers, scientists and other specialists and 650 military members who work hand in hand as leaders in e details...
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Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation is responsible to the Secretary for policy analysis and advice, policy development, strategic and implementation planning, and for the coordination details...
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Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration
The Bureau of Health Professions (BHPr), Health Resources and Services Administration, improves the health status of the population by providing national leadership in the development, distribution an details...
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Bureau of Indian Affairs
The mission of the Bureau of Indian Affairs is to act as the principle agent of the United States in carrying out the government-to-government relationship that exists between the United States and th details...
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Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor
Through its Office of Employment Projections, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) develops 10 year projections of industry and occupational employment for use in career counseling and educational pla details...
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Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: Navy Medicine, U.S. Department of the Navy
Under the direction of the Navy Surgeon General, Navy Medicine provides high quality economical health care to active duty Sailors and Marines, retirees and their family members. The office of the Na details...
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Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration
Formerly the Bureau of Health Care Delivery and Assistance, the BPHC serves as a national focus for efforts to ensure delivery of health care services to residents of medically underserved areas and t details...
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Business Responds to AIDS and Labor Responds to AIDS Programs, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Business Responds to AIDS and Labor Responds to AIDS Programs (BRTA/LRTA) help large and small businesses and labor unions meet the challenges of HIV/A details...
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Cancer Information Service, National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Cancer Information Service (CIS) is a national resource for information and education about cancer. The CIS operates a toll-free telephone service, 1-800-4-CANCE details...
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Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center is the primary global-change data and information analysis center of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). CDIAC responds to data and information requests details...
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Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research answers inquiries on biological products. These include vaccines, allergenics, blood, and blood products. The Center also works with the Food and Dru details...
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Center for Communication and Consumer Services, U.S. Administration on Aging
The Center for Communication and Consumer Services maintains aging information resources on programs, policies and services which it uses to respond to public and staff inquiries. CCCS public inquirie details...
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Center for Devices and Radiological Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The Center for Devices and Radiological Health was formed in 1982 by the merger of the Bureaus of Medical Devices and Radiological Health. The consumer inquiry function is handled by the Communicatio details...
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Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The CDER Executive Secretariat Staff (CESS), Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, responds to written consumer, health professional, professional organization, government agency, etc., inquiries c details...
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Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) is one of five product-oriented centers of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The mission of CFSAN is to promote and protect the public he details...
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Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion
The Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion's mission is to reduce disparities and promote equity in health and health care among vulnerable groups of veterans and other populations. details...
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Center for Information Technology Accommodation
The Center for Information Technology Accommodation (CITA) is a resource for information on the accessibility of electronic and information technology (EIT), and in the use of assistive technologies. details...
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Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health
Created in February, 1998, the Center combines the functions of the Division of Computer Research and Technology (DCRT), the Office of Information Resources Management (OIRM), and the Telecommunicatio details...
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Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
This office, in partnership with States, leads national efforts to demonstrate, evaluate, and disseminate service delivery models to treat mental illness, promote mental health and prevent the develop details...
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Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, U.S. Department of Agriculture
The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, an organization of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, conducts applied research and analysis in nutrition knowledge and attitudes, dietary survey method details...
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Center for Public Health, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration
The Center for Public Health, Health Resources and Services Administration, serves as the principal Federal focus for the development and improvement of basic and advanced professional education and c details...
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Center for Quality, Health Resources and Services Administration
The Center for Quality was established in the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) with the mission to strengthen and improve the quality of health care, especially as it relates to HRS details...
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Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health
The Center for Scientific Review Organizes the peer review groups of external reviewers who evaluate the majority of grant applications submitted to the National Institute of Health. They also receive details...
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Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
CSAP supports SAMHSA's vision--A Life in the Community for Everyone. Through the use of the Strategic Prevention Framework, SAMHSA/CSAP works to decrease substance use and abuse by bringing effective details...
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Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
This office was created in October 1992 with the Congressional mandate to expand the availability of effective treatment and recovery services for alcohol and drug problems. SAMHSA/CSAT works cooperat details...
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Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction
Established in 1998 by the National Toxicology Program (NTP) and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the Center 's mission include the following: to provide timely and unb details...
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Center for Veterinary Medicine, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) regulates the manufacture and distribution of drugs and feed additives intended for animals. These include animals from which human foods are derived, as well details...
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Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities
The Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities is the keystone of NCI's efforts to reduce the unequal burden of cancer in our society. As the organizational locus for these efforts, the center directs details...
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Public Inquiries of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responds to inquiries from the general public and health care professionals on research conducted by the CDC in the areas of en details...
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Centers for Disease Control, National Prevention Information Network
The CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) is the U.S. reference, referral, and distribution service for information on HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and details...
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), formerly the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), administers Medicare, Medicaid, related quality assurance programs, and other programs. details...
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Child Welfare Information Gateway
Formerly the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to information and res details...
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Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families
The Children's Bureau (CB) is one of two bureaus within the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Administration for Children and Families, of the Department of Health and Human Services. As details...
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Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
This government service links the research and education programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and works with the following: land-grant institutions in each state, territory and the District details...
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Coordinating Office for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Coordinating Office for Global Health (COGH) provides leadership and works with partners around the globe to 1) increase life expectancy and years of quality life, especially among those at highes details...
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Corporation for National and Community Service
The Corporation for National and Community Service, created by the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993, engages Americans of all ages and backgrounds in service to their communities. Thro details...
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Council on Environmental Quality
The Council on Environmental Quality coordinates federal environmental efforts and works closely with agencies and other White House offices in the development of environmental policies and initiative details...
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Department of Defense (DefenseLINK)
The purpose of DefenseLINK is to provide the public with a single, unified starting point for information about the Department of Defense, its organization and its functions. The DefenseLINK home page details...
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Department of Homeland Security
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has three primary missions: Prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce America's vulnerability to terrorism, and minimize the damage from pote details...
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Department of Veterans Affairs
The Veterans Administration was established in 1930 and elevated to cabinet level on March 15, 1989, and is now the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA provides a wide range of veterans' benefits details...
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Disability and Health Programs, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD)
The Disability and Health Team is part of the new National Center for on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) located in Atlanta, Georgi details...
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Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion/CDC
The mission of the CDC's Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (DHDSP) is to provide public health leadership to improve cardiovascular health for all, reduce the burden, and eliminate disp details...
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Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion/CDC
The Division of Adult and Community Health (DACH) strives to improve health promotion and disease prevention efforts by focusing on high-priority public health issues which include aging, arthritis, c details...
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Division of Behavioral Health, Indian Health Service
The Indian Health Service Division of Behavioral Health strives to support tribal and urban Native communities to eliminate behavioral health diseases and conditions; beyond elimination of these, the details...
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Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute
The responsibility of this division of the National Institutes of Health is to conduct population based research on environmental and genetics determinants of cancer. Interdisciplinary studies are con details...
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Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Division of Cancer Prevention and Control (DCPC) serves as a leader for nationwide cancer prevention and control. Through its partnership with state health agencies and other key groups, DCPC is details...
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Division of Diabetes Translation, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion/CDC
The mission of the Division of Diabetes Translation (DDT) is to reduce the burden of diabetes in the United States by planning, conducting, coordinating, and evaluating federal efforts to translate pr details...
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Division of Diabetes Treatment and Prevention
Indian Health Service (IHS) National Diabetes Program mission is to develop, document, and sustain a public health effort to prevent and control diabetes in American Indian and Alaska Native communiti details...
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Division of Global Migration and Quarantine
The Division of Global Migration and Quarantine has statutory responsibility to make and enforce regulations necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases fro details...
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Division of Health Professions Diversity, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration
The Division of Health Careers Diversity and Development awards grants, loans, and loan repayment programs to schools and health professions training programs that increase diversity within the health details...
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Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
The Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID) supports extramural research to control and prevent diseases caused by virtually all infectious agents except HIV. This includes basic biome details...
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Division of Nursing, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration
The Division of Nursing is the key Federal focus for nursing education and practice. The Division provides national leadership to assure an adequate supply and distribution of qualified nursing person details...
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Division of Oral Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
The Division of Oral Health (DOH) serves as a national resource for activities to prevent oral diseases and to improve oral health. DOH can provide information on fluoridation, dental sealants, activ details...
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Division of Quality Assurance, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration
The primary function of the Division of Quality Assurance is to protect the public by promoting quality assurance programs and activities. In so doing, DQA manages the National Practitioner Data Bank details...
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Division of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion/CDC
CDC's Division of Reproductive Health sets the standards for providing a solid scientific and epidemiologic basis for public health decision making in reproductive health. details...
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Division of Student Assistance, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration
The Division of Student Assistance, Bureau of Health Professions/HRSA offers loans, scholarships and faculty loan repayment programs to students in the health professions. details...
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Division of Transplantation, Healthcare Systems Bureau/HRSA
The Division of Transplantation oversees national systems and programs that facilitate solid organ and unrelated blood stem cell transplantations and that promote solid organ and blood stem cell donat details...
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Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases
The Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases (DVBID) serves as a national and international reference center for vector-borne viral and bacterial diseases. As one of the few remaining centers resp details...
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Division of Viral Hepatitis, National Center for Infectious Diseases
This Division of the National Center for Infectious Diseases performs the following duties: monitors the rates of viral hepatitis in the U.S.; provides epidemiologic assistance for outbreaks of viral details...
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Drug Abuse Warning Network, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) is a large-scale, ongoing drug abuse data collection system sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The major objectives details...
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Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Department of Justice
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was created in 1973, as the consolidation of several other Federal agencies, to enforce the Controlled Substance Act of 1970. The DEA strives to eliminate dr details...
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Emergency Services and Disaster Relief Branch, Center for Mental Health Services
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is the lead Federal agency responsible for implementing Emergency Support Function 8 (ESF-8), the health and medical portion of the Federal Disaster Re details...
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Employee Benefits Security Administration, U.S. Department of Labor
The Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA) protects the integrity of pensions, health plans, and other employee benefits. The mission of this agency is to: assist workers in getting the in details...
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Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) administers federal government job training and worker dislocation programs, federal grants to states for public employment service programs, and unemp details...
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Employment Standards Administration, U.S. Department of Labor
The Employment Standards Administration (ESA), the largest agency within the U.S. Department of Labor, enforces and administers laws governing legally-mandated wages and working conditions, including details...
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Enteric Diseases Epidemiology and Laboratory Branches, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Enteric Diseases Epidemiology and Laboratory Branches are innovative public health investigative and consultative groups that identifiy causes, sources and solutions for bacterial foodborne and di details...
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Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The mission of the Epidemiology Program Office (EPO) is to strengthen the public health system by coordinating public health surveillance at CDC and providing domestic and international support throug details...
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Federal Citizen Information Center, U.S. General Services Administration
The Federal Citizen Information Center (FCIC) is a small government agency, established in 1970, that helps other Federal agencies and departments develop, promote, and distribute consumer information details...
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Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent federal agency responsible directly to Congress. Established by the Communications Act of l934, it is charged with regulating interstate and int details...
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Federal Emergency Management Agency
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) works to reduce risk, strengthen support systems and help people and their communities prepare for and cope with disasters regardless of the cause. FEMA details...
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Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics
The Forum was established to encourage cooperation and collaboration among federal agencies to improve the quality and utility of data on the aging population. The Forum, made up of 13 federal agenci details...
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Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
The mission of the Forum is to foster coordination, collaboration, and integration of collection and reporting of Federal data on child and family issues and conditions. Forum members, which comprise details...
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Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) was established as a separate administration within the U.S. Department of Transportation on January 1, 2000, pursuant to the Motor Carrier Safe details...
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Federal Trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent Federal agency that works to maintain a strongly competitive free enterprise system. The Commission investigates consumer complaints, writes trade details...
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Food and Nutrition Information Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture
The Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) is one of several information centers located at the National Agricultural Library (NAL), part of the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) details...
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Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
This division of the USDA is responsible for the administration of all USDA's nutrition assistance programs -- Food Stamps; WIC Program /Farmers' Market; Child Nutrition; Team Nutrition; and Food Dist details...
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Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), a public health agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, ensures that the nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products is safe, who details...
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General Government Agency
The Internet resource you selected is supported as a public service by the U.S. Federal government, and the resource exists primarily as an Internet-based activity that does not have a conventional in details...
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Grants.gov
This site allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies. details...
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Health Resources and Services Administration Information Center
The HRSA Information Center is a nationwide point of entry for publications, resources and referrals on health care services for low-income, uninsured individuals and those with special health care ne details...
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Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. HRSA directs programs that improve the Nation’s health by expanding access to details...
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Health Resources and Services Administration's Women's Health Program
This federal agency provides national leadership to increase access to primary and preventive health care for those who are medically underserved. In fulfilling this role, HRSA maintains efforts to en details...
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Healthcare Systems Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration
The HRSA Healthcare Systems Bureau administers the following programs: Division of Facilities and Loans - responsible for administration and management of health facilities mortgage and insurance loan details...
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HHS Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
The mission of the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives is to create an environment within the Department of Health and Human Services that welcomes the participation of faith-based and co details...
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HIV Center of Excellence, Indian Health Service
The mission of the HIV Center of Excellence (HIVCOE) is to develop a culturally competent and comprehensive model HIV health care delivery system. This model of care is currently being integrated into details...
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HIV/AIDS Services, Health Resources and Services Administration
The HIV/AIDS Bureau is the largest single source, next to the Medicaid program, of Federal funding for HIV/AIDS care for low-income, un- and underinsured individuals. The HIV/AIDS Bureau administers t details...
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HUD USER, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD USER is your go-to source for housing and community development researchers and policymakers. They have over 800 publications and data sets, most available as free downloads on the site. Print-ba details...
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Indian Health Service Clinical Support Center
The Clinical Support Center serves Indian health program primary care providers throughout the United States through education, communication, and special initiatives. The Center is a service of the I details...
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Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Indian Health Service (IHS) provides comprehensive health services through IHS and tribally contracted hospitals, health centers, school health centers, and health stations. Health services provid details...
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Indoor Air Quality Information Clearinghouse, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The IAQ INFO is an easily accessible, central source of information on indoor air quality, created and supported by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). IAQ INFO can help you locate inform details...
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Internal Revenue Service
The IRS is the largest agency in the Department of the Treasury, with 102,000 employees and a budget of $7.8 billion. A modernized concept for this agency will focus on the taxpayer's understanding an details...
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International Nuclear Safety Center
The International Nuclear Safety Center (INSC) operates under the office of International Nuclear Safety and Cooperation within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The center's mission is to improve details...
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John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health
The Fogarty International Center (FIC) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was established in 1968 to advance health through international scientific cooperation and to serve as the organizatio details...
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Library of Congress
The Library's mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future ge details...
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Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine
This division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) was established in 1968 to conduct research and development for improving health-care information dissemination and use. Research projects inclu details...
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Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration
The Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) provides leadership to both the public and private sectors for the delivery of health care services to all mothers and children. MCHB administers a program details...
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Mine Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor
The mission of the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) is to administer the provisions of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act) and to enforce compliance with mandatory sa details...
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Since its inception in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has accomplished many great scientific and technological feats in air and space. details...
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National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture
The National Agricultural Library was created as the departmental library for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1862 and became a national library in 1962. One of four national libraries of the Un details...
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National Audiovisual Center, U.S. Department of Commerce
The National Audiovisual Center (NAC) is the central source for purchasing or renting the more than 8,000 Federally produced audiovisual programs available to the public. Requests for information may details...
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National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
The responsibility of this division of the National Cancer Institute is to conduct population based research on environmental and genetics determinants of cancer. Interdisciplinary studies are conduct details...
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National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine
Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases; conducts research in computational biology; develops software tools for analyzing genome da details...
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National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) consists of the Division of Adolescent and School Health, the Division of Adult and Community Health, the Division of details...
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National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Clearinghouse, National Institutes of Health
The NCCAM Clearinghouse provides information on complementary and alternative medicine, including publications and searches of Federal databases of scientific and medical literature. The clearinghous details...
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National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) is dedicated to exploring complementary and alternative healing practices in the context of rigorous science, training complement details...
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National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The mission of the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) is to provide national leadership, through science and service, to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling d details...
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National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Veterans Health Administration
The National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (NCHP) monitors and encourages Veterans Health Administration (VHA) activities that provide, evaluate and improve preventive medicine se details...
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National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Organized in 1960, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) collects, analyzes, and disseminates data on health in the United States. Using surveys and registration systems, data systems have details...
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National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHSTP) is responsible for public health surveillance, prevention research, and programs to prevent and control human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) details...
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National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) (established spring 2007) replaces the name National Immunization Program (NIP). NCIRD is an interdisciplinary immunization progra details...
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National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The mission of NCID is to prevent illness, disability, and death caused by infectious diseases in the United States and around the world. To accomplish this goal, NCID staff work in partnership with l details...
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National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
In June 1992, CDC established the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC). As the lead federal agency for injury prevention, NCIPC works closely with other federal agencies; national details...
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National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research, National Institutes of Health
The National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR) was established within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by legislation (P.L.101-613) passed in 1990. The Center is a component of details...
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National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
The National Center for PTSD is a program of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The Center has 7 Divisions across the country and carries out a broad range of activities in research, education, details...
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National Center for Statistics and Analysis, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
This office of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), an agency in the United States Department of Transportation, is responsible for providing a wide range of analytical and stat details...
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National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR), U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The NCTR conducts FDA mission-critical, peer-reviewed research that is targeted to develop a more scientifically sound basis for regulatory decisions and reduce risks associated with FDA-regulated pro details...
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National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
The Office on Disability and Health is a part of the Division of Human Development and Disability within NCBDD and works to prevent secondary conditions and promote health and wellness and quality of details...
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National Center on Elder Abuse
The National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA) is a national resource for elder rights, law enforcement and legal professionals, public policy leaders, researchers, and the public. The Center’s mission is details...
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National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
The mission of the National Center on Minority Health and Disparities (NCMHD) is to lead, coordinate, support, and assess the NIH effort to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities. In this details...
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National Center on Sleep Disorders Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
The National Center on Sleep Disorders Research, (NCSDR), an office within the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), coordinates sleep-related research and education activities with the N details...
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National Child Care Information Center, Administration for Children and Families
The National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC), a project of the Child Care Bureau, is a national clearinghouse and technical assistance center linking parents, providers, policy-makers, researche details...
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National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth, Family and Youth Services Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and Families
The National Clearinghouse of Families & Youth (NCFY) was established by the Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) to serve as a central resource on youth and family policy and practice. FYSB is the details...
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National Climatic Data Center, U.S. Department of Commerce
The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) is the collection center and custodian of all United States weather records. It is the central source of historical weather information, some of which it publ details...
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National Council on Disability
The Council was established by Congress in 1978 and was transformed into an independent Federal agency in 1984. The 15 members appointed by the President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate review all l details...
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National Criminal Justice Reference Service, U.S. Department of Justice
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) was established in 1972 as a centralized information service for criminal justice practitioners and researchers. NCJRS provides reference servi details...
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National Diabetes Education Program
The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) is a federally sponsored initiative, involving public and private partners. NDEP's goal is to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with diabetes details...
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National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
The National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC) is a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). The NIDDK is part of the National Institutes of Hea details...
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National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
The National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NDDIC) is a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). The NIDDK is a part of the National Ins details...
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National Disaster Medical System, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Emergency Response, (OER) coordinates the Department's efforts to provide assistance to supplement State and Local resources in response to details...
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National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities, U.S. Department of Education
The National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities provides information to the nation on disabilities in children and youth; programs and services for infants, children, and youth with d details...
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National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
The National Eye Institute (NEI), established in 1968, has primary responsibility within the National Institutes of Health for supporting and conducting research aimed at improving the prevention, d details...
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National Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Program
The National Hansen's Disease Program is the epicenter of Hansen's disease (leprosy) care, research and information in the U.S.
Cares for patients at its facility at the Ochsner Medical Center in Bat details...
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National Health Information Center, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The National Health Information Center (NHIC) is a health information referral service sponsored by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. NHIC puts health professionals and consumers details...
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National Health Service Corps, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration
The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) was established in 1970 to recruit health professionals for Health Professional Shortage Areas. Health professionals with service obligations under the NHSC S details...
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National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Health Information Network
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Health Information Network (NHLBI HIN) is NHLBI's digital link to health professionals. All public health and medical professionals with an interest in he details...
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National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Information Center
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood (NHLBI) Information Center is available Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, Eastern time, to accept orders for publications and inquiries on the prevention a details...
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National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
The primary responsibility of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) is the scientific investigation of heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases. NHLBI oversees resources and rese details...
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) was established in 1966. Its highest priority is to reduce deaths, injuries and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes, improv details...
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National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) led the National Institutes of Health's contribution to the International Human Genome Project, which had as its primary goal the sequencing of th details...
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National Hurricane Center, National Weather Service
The National Hurricane Center's mission is to save lives, mitigate property loss, and improve economic
efficiency by issuing the best watches, warnings, forecasts and analyses of hazardous tropical details...
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National Injury Information Clearinghouse, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Sponsored by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the clearinghouse collects and disseminates information on the causes and prevention of death, injury, and illness associated with cons details...
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is a Federal agency established by the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 with responsibility for conducting research and maki details...
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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
NIAID is part of the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIAID supports basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose and treat infectious details...
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National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Information Clearinghouse
The clearinghouse provides information about various forms of arthritis and rheumatic disease and bone, muscle, and skin diseases. It distributes patient and professional education materials and refe details...
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National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health
The National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) handles inquiries on the following: arthritis, bone diseases, and skin diseases. Some requests for information are ha details...
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National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
The mission of the NIBIB is to improve health by leading the development and accelerating the application of biomedical technologies.
The Institute is committed to integrating the engineering and p details...
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National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Information Resource Center
The NICHD Information Resource Center (IRC) is a resource for information on health issues and publications related to NICHD research. The NICHD Information Resource Center offers trained information details...
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National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) conducts and supports basic and clinical research in maternal and child health and the population sciences. It will respond to ind details...
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National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Oral Health Information Clearinghouse
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) was established in 1948 to improve oral, dental, and craniofacial health through research, research training, and dissemination of he details...
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National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health
The National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC) is a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). The NIDDK ia part of the National Institutes of Hea details...
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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health
The mission of the NIEHS is to reduce the burden of human illness and disability by understanding how the environment influences the development and progression of human disease. To have the greatest
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National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) is one of the National Institutes of Health, the principal biomedical research agency of the United States Government. NIGMS primarily suppor details...
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National Institute of Mental Health Office on AIDS
Since 1983, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Office on AIDS (OA) has supported research activities related to the primary and secondary prevention of AIDS and the neurobehavioral sequela details...
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National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a component of the National Institutes of Health, seeks to reduce the burden of mental illness and behavioral disorders through research on mind, brain, details...
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National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) was originally established in 1950. The NINDS conducts and supports research and research training on the causes, prevention, diagno details...
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National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health (NINR)
The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) supports clinical and basic research to establish a scientific basis for the care of individuals across the life span--from management of patients du details...
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National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce
An agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Technology Administration, NIST's mission is to develop and promote measurement, standards, and technology to enhance productivity, facilitate trade, and details...
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National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) was established in 1974 to conduct and support biomedical, social, and behavioral research and training relating to the aging process, and the diseases and other details...
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National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) supports and conducts biomedical and behavioral research on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol details...
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National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) conducts and supports research and research training in the normal and disordered processes of hearing, balance, smell, tas details...
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National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education
NIDRR's mission is to generate and disseminate research findings and promote knowledge that will improve the ability of individuals with disabilities to perform activities in the community, and increa details...
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National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) was established in 1974, and became part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services in October 1992. The Institute' details...
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National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The NIH mission is to uncover new knowledge that will lead to better health for everyone. NIH provides leadership and direction to programs designed to improve the health of the Nation by supporting r details...
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National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
The National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NKUDIC) is a service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). The NIDDK is part of the Nati details...
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National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) was established in 1836 as the library of the Army Surgeon General's Office. It was transferred to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and became k details...
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National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress
Administers a national library service that provides braille and recorded books and magazines on free loan to residents of the United States and American citizens abroad who cannot read standard print details...
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National Network of Libraries of Medicine
The purpose of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine network (NN/LM) is to provide health science practitioners, investigators, educators, and administrators in the United States with timely, details...
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is to describe and predict changes in the Earth's environment, and conserve and wisely manage the Nation's coastal and marine resources. NOAA details...
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National Office of Public Health Genomics- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The mission of the National Office of Public Health Genomics (NOPHG) is to integrate genomics into public health research, policy and programs. The office provides assistance to public health professi details...
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National Park Service
The National Park Service preserves unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the national park system for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations. T details...
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National Science Foundation
This is an independent U.S. government agency responsible for promoting science and engineering through programs that invest over $3.3 billion per year in almost 20,000 research and education projects details...
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National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Resource Center, Health Resources and Services Administration
The National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Resource Center was established in 1980 to provide information and educational materials on sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), apnea, and related issues. I details...
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National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department of Commerce
National Technical Information Service (NTIS) is the central source for the public sale of U.S. and foreign government-sponsored R&D and engineering reports, and other analyses prepared by federal and details...
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National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
This agency is the principal voice of the Executive Branch of the U.S. Department of Commerce on domestic and international telecommunications and information technology issues. NTIA works to spur inn details...
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National Vaccine Injury Compensation
On October 1, 1988, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-660) created the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). The VICP was established to ensure an adequat details...
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National Vaccine Program Office, U.S Department of Health and Human Services
The role of the NVPO is to carry out the objectives of the National Vaccine Plan. To achieve this goal the agency: coordinates and integrates activities of all Federal agencies involved in immunizati details...
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National Women's Health Information Center, Office on Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
This federal clearinghouse for women's health resources maintains a site on the World Wide Web that links you to a wide variety of women’s health-related material developed by the Department of Health details...
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Navy Environmental Health Center
The mission of this branch of the armed services is to ensure Navy and Marine Corps readiness through leadership in prevention of disease and promotion of health. To achieve this goal, NEHC's vision i details...
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NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer
The NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer is a comprehensive, systematized initiative encompassing the public and private sectors designed to accelerate the application of the best capabilities of details...
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NIH Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health
The NIH Clinical Center consists of the Warren Grant Magnuson and Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Centers. Established in 1953 as the research hospital of the NIH, the center is designed so that p details...
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NIH Consensus Program Information Center, Office of Medical Applications of Research
NIH Consensus Development Program Information Center is operational Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 5 pm (Eastern Time). Information specialists are available to respond to inquiries and accept ord details...
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NIH Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases ~ National Resource Center
The NIH Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases ~ National Resource Center provides patients, health professionals, and the public with an important link to resources and information on metabolic bone details...
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NIOSH Information Inquiry Service
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) 800-number is a toll-free technical information service that provides convenient public access to NIOSH and its information resources. details...
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor
Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was created to encourage employers and employees to reduce workplace hazards and implemen details...
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Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Department of Health and Human Services, through the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), promotes and ensures that
people have equal access to and opportunity to participate in and receive services in details...
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Office for the Advancement of Telehealth, Health Resources and Services Administration
HRSA's Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT) was established to serve as a leader in telehealth, a focal point for HRSA’s telehealth activities and as a catalyst for the wider adoption of adv details...
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Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs, Office of Population Affairs
The Adolescent Family Life (AFL) Demonstration and Research program, created in 1981 as Title XX of the Public Health Service Act, supports both demonstration and research grants. Within OPA, the Offi details...
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Office of AIDS Research, National Institutes of Health
The NIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR) is located within the Office of the Director of NIH and is responsible for the scientific, budgetary, legislative, and policy elements of the NIH AIDS research pr details...
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Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (OAR) will be the leader in the U.S. and the world in protecting human health and the environment by preventing air pollution and expo details...
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Office of Applied Studies, SAMHSA
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Office of Applied Studies collects and reports on national and State data to assist policymakers, treatment providers and patien details...
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Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health
The OBSSR mission is to stimulate behavioral and social sciences research throughout NIH and to integrate these areas of research more fully into others of the NIH health research enterprise, thereby details...
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Office of Boating Safety, U.S. Coast Guard
The Office of Boating Safety oversees the program for the prevention of recreational boat casualties. Activities of the Office include enforcement of Federal laws and regulations, establishment of pl details...
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Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Cancer Institute
The Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM) was established in October 1998 to coordinate and enhance the activities of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the arena of comp details...
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Office of Cancer Information Products and Systems
The Office of Cancer Information Products and Services manages the production of evidence-based information summaries on cancer topics including treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, supportive details...
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Office of Children’s Health Protection, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The mission of this office is to make the protection of children’s environmental health a fundamental goal of public health and environmental protection in the United States. The OCHP will support and details...
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Office of Citizen Services and Communications
The Office of Citizen Services and Communications consolidates all of GSA’s citizen-centered activities into a single organization, providing American citizens access to information and services they details...
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Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, U.S. Department of Energy
The mission of this division of the Department of Energy is to provide for the timely disposal of the Nation's nuclear waste in a geologic repository, in a manner that protects the health and safety o details...
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Office of Communications and Public Liaison, National Institutes of Health
The Office of Communications and Public Liaison (OCPL) is the central office for communications at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Located in NIH’s Office of the Director, OCPL lead the effor details...
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Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health
The responsibility of the Office of Dietary Supplements is to explore the role of dietary supplements in the improvement of health care. The ODS supports research in the area of dietary supplements; p details...
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Office of Disability Employment Policy, U.S. Department of Labor
ODEP acts as a catalyst for job formation for people with disabilities through policy analysis and grants, outreach and education, technical assistance, and the promotion and development of best pract details...
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Office of Disability, Aging, and Long-Term Care Policy
A component of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this office is responsible for developing, analyzing, evaluat details...
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Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The mission of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) is to provide leadership for disease prevention and health promotion among Americans. ODPHP undertakes this mandate throug details...
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Office of Environmental Justice, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ) was established in November 1992 with a broad mandate to serve as a focal point for
ensuring that communities comprised predominately of people of color or l details...
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Office of Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health
In its mission to protect and improve human health, the NIH conducts and supports basic, applied, and clinical and health services research to understand the processes underlying human health and to a details...
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Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO)
The mission of the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) is create equal housing opportunities for all persons living in America by administering laws that prohibit discrimination in hou details...
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Office of Family Planning, Office of Population Affairs
The Family Planning program, authorized under Title X of the Public Health Service Act, is administered within the Office of Population Affairs by the Office of Family Planning (OFP). The Title X prog details...
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Office of Global Health Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Office of Global Health Affairs provides support to the Assistant Secretary for Health and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in developing policy and coordinating activi details...
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Office of Grants Management
BPHC's Office of Grants Management (OGM) assists the general public, funded agencies, Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) and Field Office staff in preparing applications; provides consultation about details...
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Office of Head Start, Administration for Children and Families
Head Start is a national program which provides comprehensive developmental services for America's low-income, pre-school children from birth to five and social services for their families. Specific s details...
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Office of HIV/AIDS Policy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The mission of the Office of HIV/AIDS Policy within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is to advise the Assistant Secretary for Health and senior Department officials on the appropriate details...
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Office of Human Research Protections, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) fulfills responsibilities set forth in the Public Health Service Act. These include: (1) Developing and monitoring as well as exercising compliance ove details...
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Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Inspector General's Hotline was established to protect the integrity of programs of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). DHHS employees, contractors, and the general public can cal details...
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Office of Intergovernmental Affairs
As part of the Immediate Office of the Secretary, the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs (IGA)'s mission is to facilitate communication regarding Health and Human Services (HHS) initiatives as they r details...
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Office of International Programs
The Office of International Affairs is responsible for advising the Secretary on policy issues relating to HHS' international dimension; for providing staff support for the Secretary's and Deputy Secr details...
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Office of Medical Applications of Research, National Institutes of Health
The Office of Medical Applications of Research (OMAR) is the focal point for health technology assessment and transfer activities at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). OMAR staff work closely wi details...
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Office of Military Liaison and Veterans Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Office of Military Liaison and Veterans Affairs (OMLVA) provides advice, counsel, information and liaison activities for and between the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), details...
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Office of Minority and Women's Health, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services Administration
The mission of the Minority and Women's Health program is to promote activities that reduce disparities in the health status of women, racial and ethnic populations and stimulate collaborative partner details...
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Office of Minority Health and the Office of Minority Health Resource Center
The mission of the Office of Minority Health (OMH) is to improve the health of racial and ethnic populations through the development of effective health policies and programs that help to eliminate di details...
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Office of Minority Health, Health Resources and Services Administration
HRSA's Office of Minority Health provides leadership Agencywide for programs and activities which address the special health needs of racial/ethnic minorities to eliminate disparities, while improving details...
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Office of National Drug Control Policy, The White House
The principal purpose of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) is to establish policies, priorities, and objectives for the Nation's drug control program. To achieve this, the Director of details...
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Office of Native American Programs, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
This office, in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), facilitates the government - to - government relationship between tribal governments, Alaskan villages and the United States details...
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Office of Orphan Products Development, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The FDA's Office of Orphan Products Development (OOPD) is dedicated to promoting the development of products that demonstrate promise for the diagnosis and/or treatment of rare diseases or conditions. details...
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Office of Personnel Management
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is the federal government's human resources agency. While daily providing the American public up-to-date employment information, OPM ensures that the nation's details...
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Office of Pesticide Programs, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances/EPA
The mission of EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) is to protect public health and the environment from the risks posed by pesticides and to promote safer means of pest control. details...
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Office of Pharmacy Affairs, HealthCare Systems Bureau/HRSA
The Office of Pharmacy Affairs (OPA), a component of the Health Resources and Services Administration's Healthcare Systems Bureau, has three primary functions: 1) administration of the 340B Drug Prici details...
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Office of Population Affairs
The Office of Population Affairs (OPA) serves as the focal point to advise the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Health on a wide range of reproductive health topics, including adolescent preg details...
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Office of Population Affairs Clearinghouse
The Office of Population Affairs (OPA) Clearinghouse is sponsored by the Office of Population Affairs, Department of Health and Human Services. The Clearinghouse makes available educational pamphlets details...
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Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, plays an important role in protecting public health and the environment from potential risk from toxic chemicals for now and for generations details...
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Office of Public Health and Science, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-OPHS
The Office of Public Health and Science is under the direction of the Assistant Secretary for Health, who serves as the Secretary's senior adviser on public health. The office serves as the focal poin details...
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Office of Rare Diseases, National Institutes of Health
The Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) was established in 1993 at the National Institutes of Health. ORD provides information on rare diseases and research; supports scientific conferences; cosponsors, wi details...
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Office of Research Integrity, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Office of Research Integrity is responsible for protecting the integrity of PHS extramural and intramural research programs, with the exception of the regulatory research activities of the Food a details...
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Office of Research on Women's Health, National Institutes of Health
Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) was established in September 1990 within the Office of the Director at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to serve as a focal point for women's health details...
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Office of Response and Restoration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
This office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has the following responsibility to: respond to spills of oil and other hazardous materials; help emergency planners prepare for pote details...
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Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration
The Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) promotes better health care service in rural America. Established in August
1987 by the Administration, the office was subsequently authorized by Congress in details...
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Office of Rural Mental Health Research
This division of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has two major responsibilities -- to direct, plan, coordinate, and support research activitie details...
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Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The Office of the Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Response provides Agency-wide policy, guidance and direction for the Agency's solid waste and emergency response programs. The details...
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Office of Special Health Issues, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The Office of Special Health Issues serves the public by answering their questions about the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) activities related to HIV/AIDS, Cancer, and other special health issue details...
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Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness
The Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness (ASPHEP) serves as the Secretary's principal advisor on matters related to bioterrorism and other public health emergencies. ASPHEP dir details...
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Office of the Secretary of Defense
The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) is the principal staff element of the Secretary of Defense in the exercise of policy development, planning, resource management, fiscal, and program evalua details...
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Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Department of Health and Human Services is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those details...
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Office of the Surgeon General of the Army, Department of Defense
Medical benefits programs for Army personnel and eligible civilians, including dependents, are developed and administered by the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army . The Office responds to inqu details...
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Office of the Surgeon General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Prior to 1966, the Surgeon General was the head of the PHS, and all program, administrative, and financial management authorities flowed through the Surgeon General, who reported directly to the Secre details...
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Office of Tribal Justice, U.S. Department of Justice
This office coordinates all Department of Justice activities relating to federally recognized Indian tribes. Intended to increase the responsiveness of the Department to Indian tribes and American Ind details...
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Office of Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The Office of Water (OW) is responsible for implementing the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, and portions of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments Act of 1990, Resource Conserva details...
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Office of Women's Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Office of Women's Health works to promote and protect the health, safety and quality of life of women at every stage of life. details...
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Office of Women's Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
This division of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ensures that FDA functions, both regulatory and oversight, remain gender sensitive and responsive; works to correct any identified gender d details...
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Office on Disability, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Secretary of Health and Human Services created the Office on Disability (OD) in October 2002. The Director of the Office reports to the Secretary and serves as an advisor on HHS activities relatin details...
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Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
The Office on Smoking and Health, established in 1978, is a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. The office details...
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Office on Violence Against Women - OVW
The Office on Violence Against Women Office (OVW) is a component of the U.S. Department of Justice. Created in 1995, OVW implements the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and subsequent legislation and details...
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Patient Recruitment and Public Liaison Office, Clinical Center/NIH
Patient Recruitment and Public Liaison Office (PRPL) is a service of the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) -- the Nation's leading medical research facil details...
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Pediatric Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute
The Pediatric Oncology Branch, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This division provides patients, families and physicians with details...
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Policy Information Center, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Policy Information Center (PIC) is the repository of evaluations and short-term evaluative research and policy-oriented projects conducted by Health and Human Services (HHS); program inspections a details...
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President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities
The President's Committee on Mental Retardation (PCMR) advises the President and the Secretary of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on appropriate ways to provide services for citizens with details...
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President's Council on Bioethics
The President's Council on Bioethics advises the President on bioethical issues that may emerge as a consequence of advances in biomedical science and technology. It works to undertake fundamental inq details...
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President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports promotes, encourages and motivates the development of physical fitness and sport participation for Americans of all ages through its work with pa details...
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President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
The mission of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health is to conduct a comprehensive study of the United States mental health service delivery system, including both the private and pu details...
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Program Support Center
The Program Support Center (PSC) was created in 1995 to provide a wide range of administrative support within the Department of Health and Human Services, allowing the Department Operating Divisions t details...
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Public Health Training Network, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Established in 1993, PHTN is a network of public, private, academic, and business organizations that are united by a common vision: to develop a public health workforce able and motivated to apply th details...
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Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force
The goal of the Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force (QuIC) is to ensure that all Federal agencies involved in purchasing, providing, studying, or regulating health care services are working in details...
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Rural Information Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture
The Rural Information Center (RIC) provides information and referral services to local, state, and federal government officials; community organizations; rural electric and telephone cooperatives; lib details...
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SAMHSA Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Center for Excellence
The mission of the SAMHSA FASD Center for Excellence is to facilitate the development and improvement of prevention, treatment, and care systems in the United States by providing national leadership a details...
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SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
SAMHSA's National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) is the Nation's one-stop resource for information about substance abuse prevention, intervention, and treatment policies, progr details...
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SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center, Center for Mental Health Services
SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center provides the public information and referrals on mental health services. The Center offers a toll-free number, and a World Wide Web site. People ma details...
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Science Reference Section, Science, Technology and Business Division, Library of Congress
The Science Reference Section, Science, Technology and Business Division provides reference services and serves as a focal point for the millions of books, journals, and technical reports on scientifi details...
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Social Security Administration
The Social Security Administration provides public information materials about the Social Security and supplemental security income (SSI) programs, as well as information on /entitlement to Medicare. details...
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Inquiries on mental health, drug abuse, or alcohol can be directed to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) , formerly the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Admini details...
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The White House
Welcome to the White House! Links to: current Presidential policies and initiatives; commonly requested Federal services; Interactive Citizens' Handbook -- your guide to information about the Federal details...
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The Workplace Helpline, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
The Workplace Helpline is a toll-free telephone-based consulting service that assists business owners, managers, supervisors, and community-based substance abuse prevention programs with developing, i details...
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U.S. Administration on Aging, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Administration on Aging (AoA), created by the Older Americans Act (OAA) in 1965, is the only federal agency devoted exclusively to the concerns and potential of older Americans. Help for the elder details...
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U.S. Agency for International Development
USAID is an independent federal government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. USAID supports long-term and equitable economic growth and advances U.S. fo details...
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U.S. Census Bureau
The Bureau of the Census is the pre-eminent collector and provider of timely, relevant and quality data about the people and economy of the United States. The Bureau plans to achieve its goals by "Val details...
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U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
This Board's mandate is improve worker and community safety through: conducting investigations and reporting on findings regarding causes of chemical accidents at fixed facilities;" evaluating and adv details...
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
On March 1, 2003, services formerly provided by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) transitioned into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Servic details...
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U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
The United States Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) is an independent, bipartisan, fact-finding agency of the Executive Branch, first established under the Civil Rights Act of 1957. On November 30, 1 details...
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is an independent federal regulatory agency that was created in 1972 by Congress in the Consumer Product Safety Act. CPSC has jurisdiction over about details...
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
The mission of the USDA is to enhance the quality of life for the American people by supporting production of agriculture; ensuring a safe, affordable, nutritious, and accessible food supply; caring f details...
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U.S. Department of Commerce
This home page links to the Spanish version of the page, jobs, newsroom, site map, and person finder. details...
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U.S. Department of Education
The mission of the U.S. Department of Education is to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence for all Americans. details...
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U.S. Department of Energy
The Department of Energy, in partnership with our customers, is entrusted to contribute to the welfare of the Nation by providing the technical information and scientific and educational foundation fo details...
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially details...
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's Office on Women's Health
The Office on Women's Health (OWH) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the government's champion and focal point for women's health issues, and works to redress inequities in resea details...
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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
The mission of this Federal agency is to help the nation's communities meet their development needs, spur economic growth in distressed neighborhoods, provide housing assistance for the poor, help reh details...
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U.S. Department of Justice
The U.S. Department of Justice is headed by the Attorney General, the chief law enforcement officer of the Federal Government, whose main responsibility is to represent the United States in legal matt details...
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U.S. Department of Labor
The Department of Labor fosters and promotes the welfare of the job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States by improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities for pr details...
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U.S. Department of Transportation
The mission of the Department of Transportation (DOT) is to serve the United States by ensuring a fast, safe, efficient, accessible and convenient transportation system that meets our vital national i details...
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The mission of the EPA is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment--air, water, and land--upon which life depends. Through the work of its many projects and programs the EPA's details...
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U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a person at the workplace. The laws enforced prohibit di details...
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The mission of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is to: promote the public health by promptly and efficiently reviewing clinical research and taking appropriate action on the marketing of re details...
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U.S. General Services Administration
GSA is one of the three central management agencies in the Federal Government. GSA's mission is to provide expertly managed space, supplies, services, and solutions, at the best value, to enable Feder details...
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U.S. Geological Survey
The U.S. Geological Survey is the science provider of choice in accessing the information and understanding to help resolve complex natural resource problems across the Nation and around the world.
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U.S. Government Printing Office
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) was founded in 1861 for the production of U.S. Government documents. GPO was assigned the additional duties of sales and distribution in 1895. Yearly sales details...
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U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
The statutory functions of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) include the following: to identify the needs of the people of the U.S. for library and information details...
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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The mission of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is to ensure adequate protection of the public health and safety, the common defense and security, and the environment in the use of nuclear details...
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U.S. Public Health Service Nursing
This public health nursing page includes links to a listserv, employment possibilities, and the HHS Nursing Strategic Plan. details...
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U.S. Railroad Retirement Board
The Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) is an independent agency in the executive branch of the Federal Government. The RRB's primary function is to administer comprehensive retirement-survivor and unempl details...
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Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences is the Nation's Federal health sciences university and is committed to excellence in military medicine and public health during peace and war. details...
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United States Fire Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency
The mission of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) is to provide leadership, coordination and support for the Nation's fire prevention and control, fire training details...
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Weight-Control Information Network, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
The Weight-Control Information Network (WIN) was established by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) in June 1994. WIN is details...
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White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy
The White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy (WHCCAMP) was established by Executive Order No. 13147 in March 2000. In March 2002, the Commission submitted its final repo details...
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White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
The vision of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) is to "create productive and meaningful change in Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities." Towa details...
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Working Partners for an Alcohol- and Drug-Free Workplace, U.S. Department of Labor
Working Partners for an Alcohol- and Drug-Free Workplace is a U.S. Department of Labor initiative that raises awareness about the impact drugs and alcohol have on the workplace and provides informatio details...
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