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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
 

Technical Advisory Committee for Diabetes Translation and 
Community Control Programs; Meeting

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) announces the following committee meeting.


    Name: Technical Advisory Committee for Diabetes Translation and 
Community Control Programs.
    Time and date: 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday, March 14, 1994.
    Place: Sheraton Gateway Hotel, 1900 Sullivan Road, College Park, 
Georgia 30337.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
    Purpose: This committee is charged with advising the Director, 
CDC, regarding priorities and feasible goals for translation 
activities and community control programs designed to reduce risk 
factors, morbidity and mortality associated with diabetes and its 
complications. The committee advises regarding policies, strategies, 
goals and objectives, and priorities; identifies research advances 
and technologies ready for translation into widespread community 
practice; recommends public health strategies to be implemented 
through community interventions; advises on operational research and 
outcome evaluation methodologies; identifies research issues for 
further clinical investigation; and advises regarding the 
coordination of programs with Federal, voluntary, and private 
resources involved in the provision of services to people with 
diabetes.
    Matters to be discussed: The committee will discuss the status 
of the Request for Application that will be issued for award in June 
1994 and the expansion of state-based diabetes control programs. The 
committee will review and provide input on Project DIRECT (Diabetes 
Intervention: Reaching and Educating Communities Together), social 
marketing, and the Health Communications Plan. The committee will 
discuss national diabetes surveillance and future conference 
strategies. Committee members will make recommendations to the 
Division of Diabetes Translation on coordination and implementation 
of diabetes translation activities and the role of the committee 
within this coordination process. Division of Diabetes Translation 
staff will provide updates on projects and initiatives currently 
operational within the Division.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact person for more information: Cheryl Counts, Program 
Specialist, Division of Diabetes Translation, National Center for 
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC, 4770 Buford 
Highway, NE., (K-10), Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 404/
488-5004.

    Dated: February 16, 1994.
Elvin Hilyer,
Associate Director for Policy Coordination, Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 94-4123 Filed 2-23-94; 8:45 am]
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