[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 170 (Friday, September 2, 1994)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 

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.
    Times and Dates: 1 p.m.-4:45 p.m., Monday, September 19, and 
8:30 a.m.-4:15 p.m., Tuesday, September 20, 1994.
    Place: Atlanta Airport Hilton, 1031 Virginia Avenue, Atlanta, 
Georgia 30354, telephone 404/767-9000.
    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 from 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: 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, 
such as the status of the expansion and enhancement of state-based 
diabetes control programs, Project DIRECT (Diabetes Intervention: 
Reaching and Educating Communities Together), the Health 
Communication Plan, and 1994 initiatives. An update on primary 
prevention trials of diabetes mellitus will be presented, and the 
committee will discuss CDC's role in primary prevention. The 
committee will discuss diabetic eye diseases and the National 
Diabetes Education Program.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Person for More Information: Cheryl Shaw, 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: August 30, 1994.
William H. Gimson,
Acting Associate Director for Policy Coordination, Center for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 94-21831 Filed 9-1-94; 8:45 am]
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