Meeting/Workshop

Collaboration Title	Collaboration Type	HHS Participating Agencies	NIH Participating Institutes/ Centers/ Office of the Director	Year Collaboration Originated
Early Hearing Detection and Intervention	Meeting/ Workshop	CDC	NIDCD	2007
Endemic and Emerging Infectious Diseases of Priority in the Middle East and North Africa: Research Opportunities and Biosafety in a Changing Environment	Meeting/ Workshop	CDC	NIAID	2012
Evidence-based Methodology Workshop on Polycystic Ovary Syndrome	Meeting/ Workshop	AHRQ	NICHD, OD/ DPCPSI/ ODP	2011

Funding levels reported in the Fiscal Year 2012 Intra-Agency Collaborations Reporting System (CRS) may not be consistent with funding levels reported under the Estimates of Funding for Various Research, Condition, and Disease Categories (RCDC) at the NIH Office of Budget Website at http://report.nih.gov/categorical_spending.aspx. The current process, implemented in 2008 through the Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization (RCDC) system, uses sophisticated text data mining (categorizing and clustering using words and multiword phrases) in conjunction with NIH-wide definitions used to match projects to categories. RCDC use of data mining improves consistency and eliminates the wide variability in defining the research categories reported. The definitions are a list of terms and concepts selected by NIH scientific experts to define a research category. The research category levels represent the NIH’s best estimates based on the category definitions.