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

Now: Electronic NDA

Top 10 reasons for working in government…

#10, #9, #8, #7

#10 Restaurants

Chop Stix Tony Lin’s

Seven SeasTaipei-Tokyo

Fortune Star

Mama Wok

Four Rivers

New Fortune

Kim’s Hunan

Joe’s Noodle

Hunan Manor

Far East

Hong Kong

Harvest Moon

Bob’s Noodle

A & J’s

Bamboo Buffet

China Garden

Fu Shing Cafe And MORE…

#9. Climate

• Four seasons

• No earthquakes

• No floods

• Tornados: rare

#8. Today, Tomorrow & Yesterday

#7 Schools

Top 100 H.S. in US

• Wooten H.S.

• Churchill H.S.

#6. Commute

• Traffic: better than LA

• Subway system

#5: Quality of Work Life

• Locality pay adjustment• Retention bonus• Flexible work schedule• Working from home• Health benefit• No mandatory retirement

#4. Professional Development

Interactions Conferences

Invited Speakers Research

#3: Retirement Benefit

• Health insurance

• Savings Plan

• Pension

#2. Job Security

This would not happen!!!

#1: Job Satisfaction

FDA: Hierarchy

Center

Office 1 Office 2

Division 1 Division 2

Team 1 Team 2