[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 192 (Friday, October 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 51872]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-26243]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Announces 
the Following Workshop

    Name: Workshop on Enhancing Community Participation to Restore 
Public Trust and Improve Science in Health Research.
    Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., October 16, 1997. 8 a.m.-4:45 
p.m., October 17, 1997.
    Place: CDC, Auditorium A, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 
30333.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. 
The meeting room accommodates approximately 100 people.
    Purpose: The primary purpose of this workshop is to provide 
guidance to public health researchers on the inclusion of communities 
in the planning, conduct, and application of research.
    History has demonstrated, when medical and public health science is 
planned and conducted in the absence of considering the social context 
of its work, people have been harmed. As a result, society has 
responded with laws and regulations to protect human subjects who 
participate in research. Lacking in this discussion has been the issue 
of planning and conducting research that involves and impacts 
communities. This workshop will provide a unique opportunity to open 
dialogue between government, communities, and researchers. This 
dialogue should result in a proposed framework through which CDC 
promotes public health, advances democratic principles, establishes an 
ethical basis for community-based research, enhances scientific 
credibility, and provides mechanisms for building public trust while 
advancing the science of public health.
    Matters To Be Discussed: Agenda items include: identifying 
strategies for partnering with communities in research and overcoming 
distrust; legacy from the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis; review 
of human subjects protection; role of the community in protecting human 
subjects; assets that communities bring to research; and assets that 
researchers bring to communities.
    After the above comments and discussions, the workshop will be 
divided into five breakout sessions which will include: (I) Strategies, 
Issues, and Barriers; (II) Research Design Scenarios; (III) Critique of 
Strategies Elicited in Breakout Session II; (IV) Community Concerns and 
Issues; and (V) Final Recommendations.
    Contact Persons for More Information: Michael J. Sage, Deputy 
Chief, Radiation Studies Branch, Division of Environmental Hazards and 
Health Effects, National Center for Environmental Health, CDC, 4770 
Buford Highway, NE (F-35), Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 770/
488-7040, FAX 770/488-7044; or Kate M. MacQueen, Ph.D., Division of 
HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, 
CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, NE (E-45), Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone 
404/639-6146, FAX 404/639-6129.

    Dated: September 29, 1997.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 97-26243 Filed 10-2-97; 8:45 am]
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