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49-447: IGSP may refer to: Influenza Genome Sequencing Project , a project seeking investigate influenza evolution Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy , an institution at Duke University Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title IGSP . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

98-544: A consortium of other scientists wrote a proposal to begin sequencing large numbers of influenza viruses at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR). Prior to this project, only a handful of flu genomes were publicly available. Their proposal was approved by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and would later become the IGSP. New technology development led by Elodie Ghedin began at TIGR later that year, and

147-474: A consultant that will be able to decide if their rights were violated. This branch has everything to do with the social justice, wellness, and care of all people throughout the United States. This includes but is not limited to people who need government assistance, foster care, unaccompanied alien children, daycares (headstart included), adoption, senior citizens, and disability programs. Social services

196-538: A need for automated solutions that manage physician arrangements by centralizing necessary information with regard to physician–hospital integration. Contract management software companies such as Meditract provide options for health systems to organize and store physician contracts. Ludi Inc introduced DocTime Log®, an SaaS solution that specifically addresses this growing concern, automating physician time logging in compliance with contract terms to eliminate Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute violations. According to

245-689: A proactive policy to combat the misuse and abuse of advanced biotechnology. HHS also runs the Biodefense Steering Committee, which works with other federal agencies including the U.S. Department of State , U.S. Department of Defense , U.S. Food and Drug Administration , U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Environmental Protection Agency . HHS specifically oversees Project BioShield , established in 2003 and operating since 2004, and its development and production of vaccines. In 2016,

294-511: A published US Senate report revealed that several dozen unaccompanied children from Central America , some as young as 14 years old, were released from custody to traffickers where they were sexually assaulted, starved or forced to work for little or no pay. The HHS sub agency Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) released approximately 90,000 unaccompanied children during 2013–2015 but did not track their whereabouts or properly screen families accepting these children. To prevent similar episodes,

343-500: A report released by the OIG in July 2019, more than 80 percent of the 4,563 U.S. hospice centers that provide care to Medicare beneficiaries surveyed from 2012 to 2016 have at least one deficiency and 20 percent have at least one "serious deficiency". From January 2020, Christi Grimm became the principal deputy inspector general. She assumed the duties of an acting inspector general, because

392-680: A reserve fund of more than $ 630 billion over 10 years to finance fundamental reform of the health care system. The Department of Health & Human Services is led by the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services , a member of the United States Cabinet appointed by the President of the United States with the consent of the United States Senate . The secretary is assisted in managing

441-417: A role in protecting the United States against bioterrorism events. In 2018, HHS released a new National Biodefense Strategy required by passage of the 2016 Biodefense Strategy Act. The Biodefense Strategy required implementation of a biodefense strategy after a 2015 Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense report found that the 2009 National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats was inadequate in protecting

490-724: A short- and long-term effect on our health and wellness. In June 2010, the Department of Health & Human Services created the Strengthening Communities Fund as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act . The fund was appropriated $ 50 million to be given as grants to organizations in the United States who were engaged in Capacity Building programs. The grants were given to two different types of capacity builders: HHS plays

539-521: A variety of social service programs geared toward persons with low income, disabilities , military families, and senior citizens. Healthcare rights are defined under HHS in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ) which protect patient's privacy in regards to medical information, protects workers health insurance when unemployed, and sets guidelines surrounding some health insurance. HHS collaborates with

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588-400: Is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government created to protect the health of the U.S. people and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America". Before the separate federal Department of Education was created in 1979, it was called the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). HHS

637-474: Is administered by the secretary of health and human services , who is appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the United States Senate . The position is currently held by Xavier Becerra . The United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps , the uniformed service of the PHS, is led by the surgeon general who is responsible for addressing matters concerning public health as authorized by

686-579: Is broken down as follows: The FY2020 budget included a $ 1.276 billion budget decrease for the Centers for Disease Control, and a $ 4.533 billion budget decrease for the National Institutes of Health. These budget cuts, along with other changes since 2019, comprised a total decrease of over $ 24 billion in revised discretionary budget authority across the entire Department of Health and Human Services for Fiscal Year 2020. Additional details of

735-592: Is funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) which is a component of the NIH, which is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services . The IGSP has expanded to include a growing list of collaborators, who have contributed both expertise and valuable collections of influenza isolates. Key early contributors included Peter Palese of

784-516: Is one of (if not) the largest branch of programs underneath it that has a wide variety throughout the United States at a state and local level. The prevention and wellness program's main idea is to give the American people the ability to live the healthiest and best lifestyle physically that they can. They are the ones who deal with vaccines and immunizations, which fight from common diseases to deadly ones. The nutrition & fitness program that are

833-777: The Houston Post . Sworn in on April 11, 1953, as secretary, she had been FSA administrator since January 21, 1953. The six major program-operating components of the new department were the Public Health Service, the Office of Education, the Food and Drug Administration , the Social Security Administration, the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation , and St. Elizabeth's Hospital . The department

882-601: The Department of Education Organization Act . HHS was left in charge of the Social Security Administration, agencies constituting the Public Health Service, and Family Support Administration. In 1995, the Social Security Administration was removed from the Department of Health & Human Services, and established as an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States government. The 2010 United States federal budget established

931-808: The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, Jill Taylor of the Wadsworth Center at the New York State Department of Health , Lance Jennings of Canterbury Health Laboratories (New Zealand), Jeff Taubenberger of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (who later moved to NIH), Richard Slemons of Ohio State University and Rob Webster of St. Jude's Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. In 2006

980-563: The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and has been operating out of the NIAID Microbial Sequencing Center at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR, which in 2006 became The Venter Institute). Sequence information generated by the project has been continually placed into the public domain through GenBank . In late 2003, David Lipman , Lone Simonsen , Steven Salzberg , and

1029-670: The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and Office of Emergency Management to prepare and respond to health emergencies. A broad array of health related research is supported or completed under the HHS; secondarily under HHS, the Health Resources & Service Administration houses data warehouses and makes health data available surrounding a multitude of topics. HHS also has vast offering of health related resources and tools to help educate

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1078-718: The Public Health Service . The PHS also is home to the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps ( PHSCC ). The subordinate operating agencies under the Public Health Service: This list includes the subordinate agencies that do not fall under the Public Health Service, but are under HHS: The Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) investigates criminal activity for HHS. The special agents who work for OIG have

1127-682: The Child Support Recovery Act. HHS-OIG agents also provide protective services to the Secretary of HHS, and other department executives as necessary. In 2002, the department released Healthy People 2010 , a national strategic initiative for improving the health of Americans. With the passage of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 , and the Affordable Care Act of 2010, the Office of

1176-569: The Homeland Security and Health & Human Services Departments signed a memorandum of understanding in 2016, and agreed to establish joint procedures within one year for dealing with unaccompanied migrant children. As of 2018 they have failed to do so. Between October and December 2017, officials from ORR tried to contact 7,635 children and their sponsors. From these calls, officials learned that 6,075 children remained with their sponsors. Twenty-eight had run away, five had been removed from

1225-625: The Inspector General has taken an emboldened stance against healthcare related non-compliance, most notably for violations of Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute . In 2015, the OIG issued a fraud alert as a warning to hospitals and healthcare systems to monitor and comply with their physician compensation arrangements. Recent years have seen dramatic increases in both the number and the amounts of Stark Law violation settlements, prompting healthcare experts to identify

1274-452: The Secretary. This unit consists of the offices of assistant secretaries including: The Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs ( IEA ) serves as the liaison to state, local and tribal governments as well as NGOs. Through the IEA, HHS directs oversees current federal health programs at the regional and tribal level. Within HHS is a collection of agencies and offices that fall under

1323-478: The U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), as noted below. The Immediate Office of the Secretary ( IOS ) is the top-level unit that directly reports to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. They assist in the administration of HHS and include the following components: The Office of the Secretary ( OS ) is the unit directly below the Immediate Office of the Secretary, but still directly reports to

1372-415: The U.S. The strategy adopted these five central recommendations: creating a single centralized approach to biodefense; implementing an interdisciplinary approach to biodefense that brings together policy makers, scientists, health experts, and academics; drawing up a comprehensive strategy to address human, plant, and animal health; creating a defense against global and domestic biological threats; and creating

1421-698: The United States and fifty-two had relocated to live with a non sponsor. However, officials have lost track of 1,475 children. ORR claims it is not legally liable for the safety and status of the children once released from custody. HHS is evidenced to be actively coercing and forcing bio-substances such as antipsychotics on migrating children without consent, and under questionable medical supervision. Medical professionals state that wrongly prescribed antipsychotics are especially dangerous for children, and can cause permanent psychological damage. Medical professionals also state DHS and HHS incarceration and separation policies are likewise causing irreparable mental harm to

1470-418: The act of the same name. In the United States, the government feels that it is essential for the American people to understand their civil duty and rights to all of their medical information. That includes: health insurance policies or medical records from every doctor or emergency visit in one's life. Through Health & Human services one is able to file a complaint that their HIPAA rights have been violated or

1519-468: The basics of healthy eating and regular exercise. Health screenings & family health history which are crucial in the knowledge of each individual's health and body. A severely important one especially in today's society is mental health and substance abuse in where they help people with mental illness and drug abuse. Lastly, they help with environmental health where people are researching and studying how our environments both physical and metaphorically have

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1568-677: The budgeted outlays, budget authority, and detailed budgets for other years, can be found at the HHS Budget website. The Department of Health & Human Services' administers 115 programs across its 11 operating divisions. The United States Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) aims to "protect the health of all Americans and provide essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves." These federal programs consist of social service programs, civil rights and healthcare privacy programs, disaster preparedness programs, and health related research. HHS offers

1617-460: The children it incarcerates. In August 2022, the Office of the Inspector General for Health and Human Services reported that NIH had failed in its oversight of clinical trials, with slightly over half of sample trial results either being tardy for publication or remaining unpublished on ClinicalTrials.gov after several years from the stated completion dates. In the latest Center for Effective Government analysis of 15 federal agencies which receive

1666-594: The children. Children are also dying in HHS custody. The forced drugging, deaths, and disappearances of migrating Mexican and Central American children might be related to DHS falsely labeling them and their families as 'terror threats' before HHS manages their incarcerations. Despite a federal court order, the DHS separation practices started by Obama and mandated by the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy have not been halted, and HHS has not stopped forcing drugs on

1715-511: The criminal activity relative to this type of fraud. HHS-OIG investigates tens of millions of dollars in Medicare fraud each year. In addition, OIG will continue its coverage of all 50 states and the District of Columbia by its multi-agency task forces (PSOC Task Forces) that identify, investigate, and prosecute individuals who willfully avoid payment of their child support obligations under

1764-496: The department by the Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services , who is also appointed by the president. The secretary and deputy secretary are further assisted by seven assistant secretaries, who serve as top departmental administrators. As of January 20, 2018, this is the top level of the organizational chart. HHS provides further organizational detail on its website. Several agencies within HHS are components of

1813-579: The first new Cabinet-level department since the Department of Labor was created in 1913. The Reorganization Plan abolished the FSA and transferred all of its functions to the secretary of HEW and all components of the agency to the department. The first secretary of HEW was Oveta Culp Hobby , a native of Texas, who had served as commander of the Women's Army Corps in World War II and was editor and publisher of

1862-409: The first publication describing > 100 influenza genomes appeared in 2005 in the journal Nature The project makes all sequence data publicly available through GenBank , an international, NIH-funded, searchable online database. This research helps to provide international researchers with the information needed to develop new vaccines , therapies and diagnostics, as well as improve understanding of

1911-482: The inspector general post was empty. In April 2020, Grimm released a report which surveyed the state of hospitals in late March during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States . The hospitals reported "severe shortages of testing supplies", "frequently waiting 7 days or longer for test results", which extended the length of patient stays and strained resources, and "widespread shortages of PPE". President Trump called

1960-405: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IGSP&oldid=947219950 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Influenza Genome Sequencing Project The project is funded by

2009-705: The overall molecular evolution of Influenza and other genetic factors that determine their virulence. Such knowledge could not only help mitigate the impact of annual influenza epidemics , but could also improve scientific knowledge of the emergence of pandemic influenza viruses . The project completed its first genomes in March 2005 and has rapidly accelerated since. By mid-2008, over 3000 isolates had been completely sequenced from influenza viruses that are endemic in human ("human flu") avian ("bird flu") and swine ("swine flu") populations, including many strains of H3N2 (human), H1N1 (human), and H5N1 (avian). The project

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2058-510: The project in 2006, contributing over 150 influenza B isolates. The project began prospective studies of the 2007 influenza season with collaborators Florence Bourgeois and Kenneth Mandl of Children's Hospital Boston and the Harvard School of Public Health and Laurel Edelman of Surveillance Data Inc. United States Department of Health and Human Services The United States Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS )

2107-731: The project was joined by Ilaria Capua of the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (in Italy), who contributed a valuable collection of avian flu isolates (including multiple H5N1 strains). Some of these avian isolates were described in a publication in Emerging Infectious Diseases in 2007. Nancy Cox from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Robert Couch from Baylor College of Medicine also joined

2156-480: The public on health policies and pertinent population health information. Some examples of available resources include disease prevention , wellness, health insurance information, as well as links to healthcare providers and facilities, meaningful health related materials, public health and safety information. Some highlights include: This program is to ensure the accountability of medical professionals to respect and carry-out basic human health rights, under

2205-458: The report "wrong" and questioned Grimm's motives. Later he called the report "Another Fake Dossier!" In May 2020, Trump nominated Jason Weida to be the permanent inspector general, pending confirmation by the U.S. Senate. According to a department spokeswoman, Grimm will remain as principal deputy inspector general. The Department of Health and Human Services was authorized a budget for fiscal year 2020 of $ 1.293 trillion. The budget authorization

2254-541: The same title series "1811" as other federal criminal investigators, such as the FBI , HSI, ATF , DEA and Secret Service . They receive their law enforcement training at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia. OIG Special Agents have special skills in investigating white collar crime related to Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse. Organized crime has dominated

2303-566: The secretary or by the assistant secretary for health in addition to his or her primary mission of administering the Commissioned Corps. The Federal Security Agency (FSA) was established on July 1, 1939, under the Reorganization Act of 1939 , P.L. 76–19. The objective was to bring together in one agency all federal programs in the fields of health, education, and social security. The first Federal Security Administrator

2352-473: Was Paul V. McNutt . The new agency originally consisted of the following major components: (1) Office of the Administrator, (2) Public Health Service (PHS), (3) Office of Education, (4) Civilian Conservation Corps, and (5) Social Security Board. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) was created on April 11, 1953, when Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1953 became effective. HEW thus became

2401-702: Was also responsible for three federally aided corporations: Howard University , the American Printing House for the Blind , and the Columbia Institution for the Deaf (Gallaudet College since 1954). The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was renamed the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) on October 17, 1979, when its education functions were transferred to the newly created United States Department of Education under

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