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public policy update
Serving psychology and promoting research and services
APA thanks the many psychologists who serve on federal advisory committees.
BY APA PUBLIC POLICY OFFICE STAFF
It may come as a surprise to many psychologists that there are more than 1,000 federal advisory committees and councils that make important policy recommendations each year. These groups advise agency directors, help determine program priorities and in some cases serve as the highest level of merit review before research and service grants are funded.
Each of the 27 institutes and centers at the National Institutes of Health has at least one such council or committee. Likewise, every division at the National Science Foundation and each of the centers of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has a committee, as do many other federal agencies. An appointment to one of these prestigious committees or councils gives psychologists a significant opportunity to serve the field and the agencies that fund scientific research and mental health services. Such groups often have only one psychologist member, so he or she becomes a de facto ambassador from the behavioral sciences.
The APA Public Policy Office (PPO) salutes these psychologists who give so much of their time to promoting research and services. Visit the PPO Web site at www.apa.org/ppo/issues/fedadviscomm.html for the most updated list of psychologists on federal advisory committees. PPO seeks to compile a complete list of psychologists serving on committees and councils but is not collecting names of those serving on peer-review committees. If you are a member of a council but not listed, send an e-mail to ppo@apa.org. At Monitor press time, the list was as follows:
National Science Foundation
Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Advisory Committee
National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute, Board of Scientific Advisers
National Advisory Eye Council
National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research
Research Advisers for Ethical, Legal and Social Issues
National Advisory Council on Aging
National Advisory Committee on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
National Advisory Council on Child Health and Human Development
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Board of Scientific Counselors
National Institute of Deafness and Communicative Disorders Advisory Council
National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse
National Advisory Mental Health Council
National Advisory Nursing Council
Fogarty International Center Board of Regents
National Institutes of Health, Office of Women's Health Research Advisory Council
National Institutes of Health, Council of Public Representatives
National Advisory Committee for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Advisory Committee
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment Advisory Committee
Center for Mental Health Services Advisory Committee
Advisory Committee for Women's Services
U.S. Public Health Service
Advisory Committee on Federal Statistics
Department of Education
Institute for Educational Research National Board for Education Sciences
Department of Health and Human Services
National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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