The Tick-Borne Disease Working Group was established by the 21st Century Cures Act to improve federal coordination of efforts related to tick-borne diseases. Members will review all U.S. Department of Health and Human Services efforts related to tick-borne diseases to provide expertise and help ensure interagency coordination and minimize overlap, examine research priorities, and identify unmet needs.
NBC News 4 New York aired a piece on the federal Tick-Borne Working Group, Tri-State Helps Bring Hope to Lyme Wars Public Health Crisis, on February 21, 2018. The video featured LDA President, Pat Smith; Lyme Society, Inc. President, Bob Sabatino; John Aucott, Co-Chair of the Working Group; as well as a number of patients. […]
The Lyme Disease Association announces that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has selected 53 individual to serve on one of six subcommittees of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (Working Group). After reviewing the nominations, selections were made by the co-chairs overseeing each of the subcommittees. The Chair and Vice-Chair of the Working Group […]
The Lyme Disease Association Inc. announces that the new HHS Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (TBDWG) has selected co-chairs from the TBDWG for its 6 newly formed sub-committees. LDA President Pat Smith will be co-chair the Disease Vectors, Surveillance and Prevention (includes epidemiology of tick-borne diseases) Subcommittee. The other co-chair is Dr. Ben Beard, Acting Deputy […]
The new HHS Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (TBDWG) is seeking nominations from federal employees and members of the public who are interested in being considered for appointments to subcommittees being established to provide information for the TBDWG. Nominations will be accepted until midnight on January 7, 2018. The new HHS Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (TBDWG) […]
The Lyme Disease Association (LDA) reports that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on November 22, 2017, the appointment of 14 members, 7 federal and 7 non-federal, to the new HHS Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. Lyme Disease Association President Pat Smith was one of 7 non-federal appointees to the Working Group, which was established through […]
The Lyme Disease Association announced that early today, July 14, the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) released its intent to establish the Tick-Borne Disease (TBD) Working Group called for in Section 2062 of the 21st Century Cures Act. The working group will assist HHS in its efforts to conduct and support epidemiological, […]