[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 155 (Friday, August 9, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 41635]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-20320]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Notice of Meeting

    Office of the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC), announces the following meeting.

    Name: Guide to Community Preventive Services (GCPS) Task Force 
Meeting.
    Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., August 26, 1996; 8:30 a.m.-5 
p.m., August 27, 1996.
    Place: CDC, Building 2, Classroom 1, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, 
Atlanta, Georgia 30333.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. 
The meeting room accommodates approximately 60 people.
    Purpose: The mission of the Task Force is to develop and publish 
a Guide to Community Preventive Services, which is based on the best 
available scientific evidence and current expertise regarding 
essential public health services and what works in the delivery of 
those services. The primary purpose of this first meeting is to 
develop a shared vision for the Guide, agree on the methods to be 
used in its development, and to select the first topics to be 
included in the Guide.
    Matters to be Discussed: Agenda items include: key issues for 
the Guide to Community Preventive Services; defining the Target 
Audiences and Developing a Vision for the Anticipated Uses; Nature 
of the Content and Format of the Guide; Applicable lessons learned 
from the Guidelines Project of the Council on Linkages Between 
Academia and Public Health Practice; Methods and Approaches to 
Developing the Guide to Community Preventive Services; and Proposed 
Approach to the Development of the GCPS.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Person for Additional Information: Marguerite 
Pappaioanou, the GCPS Project Director at CDC and Executive 
Secretary to the Task Force, Office of the Director, CDC, 1600 
Clifton Road, NE, M/S D-27, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone 404/
639-7069.
    Persons interested in reserving a space for this meeting should 
call 404/639-7100 by close of business on August 21, 1996.

    Dated: August 5, 1996.
Nancy C. Hirsch,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 96-20320 Filed 8-8-96; 8:45 am]
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