The Center for Studying Health System Change is a Washington-based research organization dedicated to studying how the country's health care systems are changing and how those changes are affecting people at the community level. The Center's major project -- the Community Tracking Study -- is collecting data through surveys and site visits in a random sample of communities.

Americans for Medical Progress counters the animal rights movement's attack on medical research.

The Health Research Group petitions and testifies before Congress and federal agencies (such as the Food and Drug Administration and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) on such issues as the banning or relabeling of drugs, improved safety standards at worksites, and safer medical devices.

www.health.gov is a portal to the web sites of a number of multi-agency health initiatives and activities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other Federal Departments.

Featuring bibliography of health care policy publications as well as information about projects, faculty, staff and employment for the department.

The Information for State Health Policy site was created to increase awareness of the Information for State Health Policy Program, to serve as a model for the use of electronic communication to disseminate health information by state health agencies, and to provide information on health issues and activities of the program's state grantees.

Since 1979, the Intergovernmental Health Policy Project has been America's only independent, university-based organization devoted solely to research and reporting on health care policy at the state and local levels.

Medical Technology & Practice Patterns Institute (MTPPI) is a nonprofit organization established in 1986 to conduct research on the clinical, economic, and social implications of new and emerging health care technologies. MTPPI's research is directed toward the formulation and implementation of local, national, and international health care policies.

MROCC, formed in 1992 to set a professional standard of excellence formedical review officers (MROs), recognizes competence of those physicians who have developed specialized knowledge and are proficient in the performance of the essential duties of the MRO.