The National Institutes of Health launched the Science, Health, and Public Trust initiative to share strategies and best practices to help convey complex research results to the public in ways that are clear, credible, and accurate. The Perspectives section offers insights on biomedical communication from NIH experts. The Tools section provides useful aids including:
A checklist for communicating science and health research to the public
A guide to understanding clinical studies
An infographic on communicating health risks
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The federal agency that conducts and supports health promotion, prevention and preparedness to improve overall public health. Within the CDC are offices that handle different issues. Here’s an organization chart of the agency.
“Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2019” (2019 AR Threats Report) is a publication of the Antibiotic Resistance Coordination and Strategy Unit within the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The full 2019 AR Threats Report, including methods and appendices, is available online.
Under the Center for Global Health is the Global Health Protection and Security Office, which is working with global health care leaders through ten Global Disease Detection Centers in different regions of the world to help countries detect, identify and contain emerging infectious diseases. This office has been the chief responder to high-profile public health events such as Ebola, polio eradication, MERS-CoV, cholera, and Nipah virus.
Within the Office of Infectious Diseases:
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases The office’s mission is prevention of disease, disability, and death through immunization and by control of respiratory and related diseases. Within the center is an office dedicated to handling the flu. In 2017, this office also updated the nation’s plan for preparing for a pandemic flu.
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
This group focuses on protecting the public from emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.
Prevention, Antimicrobial Resistance Program
The division that coordinates the U.S. response to antimicrobial resistance. The CDC collaborates with the Food and Drug Administration, and the US Department of Agriculture to monitor antibiotic resistance nationally through the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System.
Food and Drug Administration
Federal agency responsible for regulating drugs, biological products, medical devices, food and cosmetics. Fact sheets on Tamiflu and antiviral drugs to treat the flu.
National Animal Health Monitoring Health System
A joint federal and private sector effort, managed out of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to monitor U.S. livestock and birds for disease outbreaks.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
One of the National Institutes of Health’s 27 Institutes and Centers. The NIAID focuses chiefly on infectious diseases. Within the NIAID is the Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance, an integrated network of centers designed to bring together multidisciplinary teams of researchers that perform surveillance related research integrated with research on host immune response, viral pathogenesis, and the factors that control the emergence and transmission of influenza viruses.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The chief federal agency charged with protecting the health of Americans and with providing essential health services. The CDC and NIH both operate under the umbrella of HHS. Within the agency is the National Vaccine Program Office, a program aimed preventing infectious diseases by encouraging the use of vaccines. The office also focuses on making vaccines safe for all Americans.
AIDSInfo
HHS program offering information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention and research.
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
Created by the 2006 Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act to develop and oversee a national health security plan and develop media countermeasures in the event of a pandemic.
National Preparedness and Response Board
It provides expert advice and guidance to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response on scientific, technical, and other matters related to public health emergency preparedness and response.
National Health Security Strategy Plan for being prepared for the threats to health that come with disasters and emergencies.
U.S. Census Bureau’s HIV/AIDS Surveillance Database
A compilation of information from widely scattered small-scale surveys on HIV infection and the AIDS pandemic in population groups in developing countries. The database brings together information from medical and scientific literature, presentations at international conferences, and the press. Users can retrieve information for groups in a selected country, and print or save it to a .pdf or .csv file. The HIV/AIDS Surveillance Data Base includes all countries and areas of the world with at least 5,000 in population, except Canada, the United States and U.S. territories.