Sentences with phrase «advisory committees»

NIH advisory committees I suspected that NIH was not obeying federal regulations when it came to conflicts of interest on its advisory committees.

My role is to provide professional scientific secretarial support to 13 different PHLS expert advisory committees, covering wide - ranging areas from vaccines and immunisation, virology, and new technology to mycobacteria and systemic and respiratory viruses.

The administration named «unqualified persons» with political agendas or industry ties to key policy posts or advisory committees, and it opposed qualified experts if they appeared to be anti-industry.

Workshops or citizen advisory committees and juries can be held to vet the issues involved.

I've also been on advisory committees for a number of institutional training grants.

One program that has been discussed — by those involved in administering the institutional training grants and also the postdocs themselves — is the initiation of postdoctoral advisory committees to facilitate a better postdoctoral experience.

Whereas the Federal Advisory Committee Act regards advisory committees to be a «useful and beneficial means of furnishing expert advice, ideas, and diverse opinions to the federal government» and requires advisory committees to be «fairly balanced in terms of points of view represented and like functions to be performed,» and

D.F.: Something that created tensions is when I nominated the advisory committees.

He said, in particular, the dismantling of Interior advisory committees has taken its toll on staff.

NIH is also reviewing its policies for participating in peer review and advisory committees «in circumstances of this sort,» he said.

Joanne Carney, director of government relations at AAAS (publisher of ScienceInsider), said she knew of no federal agency that currently bars grant recipients from serving on advisory committees.

Pruitt's plans could also fall within the scope of a broader campaign by business organizations to open the door for more industry participation on advisory committees.

EPA has two dozen federal advisory committees that provide advice on air quality, pesticides, chemicals, environmental justice, drinking water safety, hazardous waste and more.

The letter, signed by AAAS and a broad group of scientific organizations, was sent to President Trump and the administration's agency heads, urging them to follow the 1972 Federal Advisory Committee Act governing the establishment, operations, scope and termination of scientific advisory committees.

Science organizations urged the Trump administration to appoint scientists to scientific advisory committees and to make data publicly available.

The Center of Science, Policy, and Society Programs has three advisory committees.

In addition to considering the recommendations of that committee, which was appointed by the town board and is largely made up of farmers, she said the board should seek the opinions of its various citizens advisory committees on farmland preservation.

It was formed by a group of lawyers including Robert Haig and Mark Zauderer, many of whom currently or previously have held appointments to advisory committees in the court system.

For now though, the executive order issued by Cuomo would only establish regional advisory committees.

«In that report we recommended that members of scientific advisory committees «should not be criticised for publishing scientific papers or making statements as professionals, independent of their role as government advisers»,» it continues.

The town board has been working with business and housing advisory committees, Ms. Burke - Gonzalez said, on possible code changes that would clear the way for work - force and seasonal housing in downtown or resort areas, and is seeking proposals from builders for temporary seasonal housing units in the Montauk dock area.

Each Commissioner individually acts as a liaison to the District's internal and resident advisory committees.

The advisory committees are composed of principals, athletic directors, activity directors, coaches and officials.

«WHO is getting hijacked,» said Boyd Swinburn, an Australian professor and longtime member of WHO's nutrition advisory committees.

Working to give the organization a solid foundation comprised of as many perspectives as possible, this dynamic Board then formed advisory committees for both technical and policy issues.

She also sits on the advisory committees for the James Beard Foundations» Women's Leadership Advisory Committee and is the Culinary Ambassador for Sweet Home Café at the Smithsonian National Museum for African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

They in turn have chosen him to serve on various citizen advisory committees, even at the national level.

Encourage the minister and laymen to become involved in citizens advisory committees of community mental health services (such services are beamed toward both prevention and treatment)

I am thinking of parish councils, lay advisory committees and similar institutions which aim at giving the laity greater responsibility and cooperation in the decision - making of the Church.

c. provide representatives to the boards and advisory committees of the local community mental health program.

She also serves on several area nonprofit boards and advisory committees.

She serves on the advisory committees of several corporations, including the Ernst & Young Winning Women program, the Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network, Walmart's Women Owned Business Advisory Council, Shell Diversity & Inclusion Collaboration Partners, MGM Resorts International Diversity Advisory Board, as well as the Coca - Cola Company's 5by20 initiative.

Currently she sits on advisory committees for Know the Chain, ICCR's Human Trafficking Group, and Cotton Campaign.

Participate in advisory committees, read company newsletters.

Current DuPont CEO Ed Breen would lead advisory committees to spin out the agriculture and specialty products units, while Dow CEO Andrew Liveris would lead the material sciences advisory committee.

The administration has other councils focused on other policy areas, such as developing a competitive income tax code and streamlining burdensome regulation.UTC strongly supports the goals of each of these advisory committees as a way of ensuring and enhancing America's growth in the decades to come.

But its feedback is expected to figure prominently in the USTR's approach, since formal meetings with the relevant advisory committees in the Senate and House have yet to take place, according to congressional aides.

In 2013, Diamonte was appointed by President Barack Obama and currently serves as chair of the advisory committee for Pension Benefit Guaranty.

Ultimately, a 14 - member advisory committee, all nutritionists, epidemiologists and doctors working at universities around the country, created the new recommendations.

«I hope that someday all of you on the advisory committee can tell your families for generations that you were part of the process that ended the use of toxic treatments like chemotherapy and radiation as standard treatment, and turned blood cancers into a treatable disease that even after relapse most people survive.»

And the lawsuit alleges that Silicon Valley venture capitalist and board member Marc Andreessen was personally advising Zuckerberg, while also sitting on a supposedly impartial advisory committee overseeing the restructuring maneuver.

Taylor sits on BDT's fund advisory committee.

Even if the advisory committee suggests the FDA approve PMI's modified risk tobacco product application, the FDA is not guaranteed to follow the recommendation.

Philip Morris International and Altria started making their case for iQOS in front of an independent advisory committee, which will make a recommendation to the Food and Drug Administration.

And the public was ready to pounce: Just 24 hours after Fowler published her post, the Twitter hashtag #DeleteUber had generated almost 5 million more impressions than it did during the weekend of January 27, when masses of people started using it to protest the company's response to a New York taxi strike and CEO Travis Kalanick's (soon to be short - lived) participation in President Donald Trump's tech advisory committee.

But in a meeting last week, scientists warned the advisory committee that oversees the plan that the goal of improving the reef environment is unrealistic after back - to - back bleaching events in 2016 and 2017, contributing to the worst coral die - off ever recorded.

Put together and meet with an advisory committee.

A graduate of Georgetown University (B.S., mathematics) and Harvard Business School (MBA), Erdoes is a board member of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and the U.S. - China Business Council and serves on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's investor advisory committee on financial markets.

He's been on an advisory committee for the International Council of Securities Associations, and has chaired the Consultative Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).

As a result, an advisory committee was formed by the league in 2013 to help identify and train candidates, resulting in two minority hires.