[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 65 (Friday, April 4, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16160-16161]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-8598]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary


Meeting of the Secretary's Council on Health Promotion and 
Disease Prevention Objectives for 2010

AGENCY: Office of Public Health and Science, Office of Disease 
Prevention and Health Promotion.

ACTION: Secretary's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention 
Objectives for 2010: Notice of Inaugural Meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Health and Human Services is providing 
notice of the first annual meeting of the Secretary's Council on Health 
Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2010.

DATES: The Council will hold its meeting on April 21, 1997 from 9:30 
a.m. to approximately 4:30 p.m. E.S.T.

ADDRESSES: Department of Health and Human Services, Sixth floor 
conference room, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, 
SW., Washington, DC 20201. The meeting is open to the public; seating 
is limited.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ellis Davis, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Room 
738G, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., 
Washington, DC 20201, (202) 260-2873.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Council was established by charter on 
September 5, 1996 to provide assistance to the Secretary and the 
Department of Health and Human Services in the development of health 
promotion and disease prevention objectives to enhance the health of 
Americans by 2010. The Council will meet approximately once a year and 
will terminate two years from its charter date, unless renewed prior to 
its expiration.

    The Council is charged to advise the Secretary on the development 
on national health promotion and disease prevention goals and 
objectives and to provide links with States, communities, and the 
private sector to ensure their involvement in the process of developing 
these goals and objectives. The Secretary of Health and Human Services 
chairs the Council, with the Assistant Secretary for Health as Vice 
Chair. Other members include the Operating Division Heads of the 
Department and the former Assistant Secretaries for Health. Management 
and support services are provided by the Office of Disease Prevention 
and Health

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Promotion, Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the 
Secretary.
    At its first meeting, the membership will establish procedures for 
conducting the business of the Council and for reporting the results of 
its meetings to the Secretary. Other items on the agenda include 
consideration of reports from Healthy People 2000 Consortium focus 
groups, discussion of data developments relevant to Healthy People 
2010, and strategies for engaging the business community in the 
Department's prevention efforts. During its tenure, the Council will 
oversee the development of Healthy People 2010, the third generation of 
a national initiative to prevent disease and promote the health of the 
American people. It is anticipated that a call for submission by the 
public of health promotion/disease prevention objectives for 2010 will 
be published in the fall of 1997. At a second meeting proposed for 
spring of 1998, the Council will consider the resulting submissions as 
the basis for a draft of the 2010 objectives to be published in the 
fall of 1998.
    If time permits at the conclusion of the formal agenda of the 
Council, the Chair may allow brief oral statements from interested 
parties and persons in attendance. The meeting is open to the public; 
however, seating is limited. If you will require a sign language 
interpreter, please call Gloria Robledo (202) 401-7736 by 4:30 p.m. 
E.S.T on April 7, 1997.

    Dated: March 27, 1997.
Susanne A. Stoiber,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health (Disease Prevention and 
Health Promotion).
[FR Doc. 97-8598 Filed 4-3-97; 8:45 am]
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