[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 71 (Monday, April 14, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 18135]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-9512]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Epidemiology Program Office, Office of the Director, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Meeting

    Name: Guide to Community Preventive Services (GCPS) Task Force 
Meeting.
    Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., April 28, 1997; 8:30 a.m.-5 
p.m., April 29, 1997.
    Place: Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle, at Massachusetts 
Avenue and 14th Street, Washington, DC 20005.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
    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.
    Matters to be Discussed: Agenda items include discussion on the 
organization and contents of the Guide; discussion on the methods to 
develop the Guide; progress reports on the development of Chapters on 
Preventing Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Preventing Motor Vehicle 
Injuries; brief progress reports on the development of chapters on 
tobacco, nutrition, physical activity, heart disease and stroke, family 
planning, environment, and violence; and discussion on field testing, 
implementing, and evaluating the Guide.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact person for additional information: Marguerite Pappaioanou, 
Chief, Community Preventive Service Guide Development Activity, 
Division of Prevention Research and Analytic Methods, Epidemiology 
Program Office, CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, M/S D-01, Atlanta, Georgia 
30333. Persons wishing to reserve a space for this meeting should call 
404/639-4301 by close of business on April 21, 1997.

    Dated: April 4, 1997.
Carolyn Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 97-9512 Filed 4-11-97; 8:45 am]
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