Career Opportunities in Government
NTUSPAA-NASan Francisco, CA
August 2005
HHS• Administration for Children and Families (ACF) • Administration on Aging (AoA) • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ) • Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
(ATSDR) • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) • Food and Drug Administration (FDA) • Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA) • Indian Health Service (IHS) • National Institutes of Health (NIH) • Program Support Center (PSC) • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA)
NIH
• 27 institutes under NIH– Cancer, aging, infectious disease, drug abuse,
etc.• Research-oriented• Research budget: $27 billion/yr• Intramural – About 10% of budget– NIMH (De-Maw Chuang); (Su-Chen Wu, Shiuh-
Yeng Chang)• Extramural– >80% awarded through 50,000 grants– NIDA (Nora Chiang & Ming Shih)
FDA
CDER CBER CVM
OND
CDRH
ODS OCPB OPS
ODA OC
OGD
Ling-Huey CheungShu-Luan Lee
Min-Chu Chen Shiew-Mei Huang
Sue-Chih Lee
Sue-Ching LinShulin Ding
Yih-Chain HuangMao-Hsin Shih
Chi-Jen Lee
Mei-Ling Chen
CBER
• Reorganization
• Primary products
–Vaccine
–Blood Products
• Distinguished alumnus
–Chi Jen Lee
CDER• Drugs–Synthetic–Biotech
• Alumni–Pharmacology
/toxicology–Pharmacokinetics –Chemistry
Office of Clinical Pharmacology and Biopharmaceutics
(OCPB)• Right Dose– Subpopulations• Gender• Race• Age• Disease
– Drug Interactions– Genetic variants
Interactions among Disciplines
Industry
Drug Abuse
Pharm/Tox Stat
OGD
Chem
Clinician
OCPB
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• Health insurance
• Savings Plan
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Center
Office 1 Office 2
Division 1 Division 2
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