About CERTs
Annual Report Year 1
Year 1 Progress
Developing Knowledge | Managing Risk | Improving Practice | Informing Policies | Program-wide Activities
Program-wide Activities
To carry out our activities as a cohesive entity, CERTs has developed working groups to enhance communication and scientific efficiency:
- The Public-Private Partnership Work Group reviews potential partnerships for compliance with CERTs' principles for collaboration.
- The Database Work Group provides a forum for sharing knowledge about databases and for discussing joint database research efforts.
- The Publications Work Group provides a forum for collaborative review of all CERTs-related publications.
- The Quality Work Group provides a forum for identifying methods for best practice and dissemination activities.
We are linked to the public through a Web site (http://www.certs.hhs.gov), hosted by AHRQ and maintained by the CERTs Coordinating Center to provide information about our mission and progress.
We have detailed our common vision and integrated approach in a manuscript, "A Call To Arms," submitted to a peer-reviewed medical journal.