mHealth (mobile Health)
The Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Program, in the Office of the Director at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has spearheaded the coordination of NIH’s effort in organizing the 2010 mHealth Summit, as well as co-chairing the inaugural mHealth Summit held in 2009.
The 2010 mHealth Summit is sponsored by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), with co-sponsors including NIH, the mHealth Alliance, and others, with a goal of engaging the stakeholders in the mHealth ecosystem in a research and data-driven approach toward advancing the field.
The NIH PPP Program has also organized the NIH mHealth Inter-Institute Interest Group. The aims of the NIH mHealth Inter-Institute Interest Group are to:
- Share information on mHealth across NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) and offices,
- Coordinate mHealth research activities across NIH ICs and offices,
- Interface with other NIH Interest Groups with relevant interests (e.g., biomedical informatics, etc.),
- Invite speakers to give presentations at NIH on topics pertinent to mHealth research, and
- Identify areas of shared work across NIH ICs/offices and possibly with outside partners
To obtain more information about the NIH Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Program or about mHealth please email pppartnerships@od.nih.gov or call 301-443-9777.
FOR NIH STAFF ONLY:
The NIH mHealth Inter-Institute Interest Group meets monthly and is open to all NIH staff. Topics addressed in meetings of the Interest Group included the view from other regulatory and programmatic Federal agencies and the use/applications of mHealth approaches to public health problems such as smoking cessation and health disparities.
Current members of NIH mHealth Interest Group include staff from the NIH:
- Office of the Director
- John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences
- National Cancer Institute
- National Center for Research Resources
- National Eye Institute
- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
- National Institute on Aging
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Institute of Nursing Research
- National Library of Medicine
For more information about the NIH mHealth Inter-Interest Group or about the schedule of meetings, please contact:
Current Chair: Bill Riley, Ph.D., National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Email: wiriley@mail.nih.gov
Co-Chair: Barbara Mittleman, M.D., NIH Office of the Director, Public-Private Partnership Program, Email: mittlemb@mail.nih.gov
To be added to the NIH mHealth Inter-Interest Group (mHealth IIIG) SharePoint Site and email distribution list please contact the PPP Program by email at pppartnerships@od.nih.gov