Iterative discussion and consensus by a multidisciplinary task force scientific secretariat reviewing scientific evidence on neck pain and its associated disorders.
IRDiRC currently functions through a Consortium Assembly (formerly Executive Committee), three Constituent Committees (Funders, Companies, Patient Advocates), three Scientific Committees (Diagnostics, Interdisciplinary, Therapies), an Operating Committee, ad hoc Task Forces, and a Scientific Secretariat (Fig. 2).
These were derived from discussions within the scientific secretariat at the NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre.
Scientific and organizing secretariat: Francesco Zito (Coordinator), Americo Bonanni, Chiara Cerletti, Amalia De Curtis, Augusto Di Castelnuovo, Licia Iacoviello, Roberto Lorenzet, Antonio Mascioli, Marco Olivieri and Domenico Rotilio.
The Health and Population Division, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa serves as the satellite secretariat providing scientific leadership, technical and administrative support for the INDEPTH Adult Health and Ageing initiative.
The Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission (WECAFC) agreed to simplify its structure to a secretariat, a scientific advisory group and ad hoc working groups.
In the case that led to the contacts, Mr. Zakharov, a physicist who had been a scientific adviser to the United Nations Secretariat, was said to have cruised libraries and campuses in the New York area in search of agent-recruits.
The ITPS will provide the scientific advice needed while the GSP Secretariat will facilitate the implementation of agreed activities upon contribution of resource partners.
However, the database we have analyzed was the best scientific information made available by the ICCAT secretariat during the Atlantic sailfish stock assessment meeting held in 2009 ICCAT 20100).
The office in Madrid is a secretariat that compiles statistics and organises scientific advice.
In response UNICEF is working with the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and in partnership with the Secretariat of the Ohrid Framework Agreement to promote tolerance and respect for ethnic and cultural diversity The joint programme is funded by the Spanish Government through the MDG Achievement Fund.
