[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 199 (Wednesday, October 15, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53649-53650]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-27290]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Public Health Service


Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Statement of 
Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

    Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the 
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of 
the Department of Health and Human Services (45 FR 67772-76, dated 
October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR 69296, October 20, 1980, as 
amended most recently at 62 FR 46751, dated September 4, 1997) is 
amended to reflect the establishment of the Division of Oral Health 
within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health 
Promotion.
    Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as 
follows:
    After the functional statement for the Program Services Branch 
(HCL84), insert the following:
    Division of Oral Health (HCL9). (1) Provides a national and 
international focus for the prevention and control of oral diseases and 
conditions, and for the prevention and control of infectious diseases 
in dentistry; (2) provides assistance to state and local governments, 
professional, educational, voluntary, and community-based organizations 
through consultation, training, promotion, education, surveillance, and 
other technical services; (3) assists state and local governments and 
other organizations in evaluating dental, oral, and infectious disease 
prevention activities; (4) develops and implements oral health 
activities for underserved racial and ethnic minority populations; (5) 
collects, analyzes, summarizes, and distributes information on the 
status of dental public health programs; (6) conducts and evaluates 
operational research to develop improved methodology for oral disease 
prevention; (7) develops and conducts surveillance of dental and oral 
disease problems; (8) maintains liaison with other federal agencies, 
state and local health agencies, and national organizations and groups 
on oral health activities; (9) collaborates with other components of 
CDC and DHHS in carrying out programs.
    Office of the Director (HCL91). (1) Manages, directs, and 
coordinates the activities of the Division of Oral Health (DOH); (2) 
provides leadership and guidance in policy formulation, program 
planning and development, program management and operations; (3) 
provides administrative, fiscal, procurement, and technical support for 
the division; (4) coordinates responses to all congressional, public, 
and Freedom of Information inquiries; (5) coordinates all clearance 
functions; (6) manages all personnel activities, including staff 
recruitment, assignment, and career development; (7) coordinates 
activities of the division with other components of CDC.
    Program Services Branch (HCL92). (1) Develops and recommends 
criteria and standards to be used in program planning and evaluation of 
public oral health programs; (2) provides consultation to and maintains 
liaison with state and local health agencies, national and 
international dental associations, health professional groups, and 
voluntary and community-based organizations in the areas of information 
exchange, education, and health promotion to support oral disease 
prevention and control efforts; (3) provides consultation and 
assistance to federal agencies for the prevention and control of oral 
diseases and for oral health promotion; (4) develops and implements 
oral health activities for underserved racial and ethnic minority 
populations; (5) assists state and local health departments in 
evaluating their programs and makes recommendations to facilitate 
improvement of programs; (6) designs, develops, coordinates, and 
disseminates guidelines related to dental disease prevention and oral 
health promotion; (7) develops and conducts national water fluoridation 
training for state engineering and dental personnel; (8) collects, 
compiles, and distribution data on the quality of water fluoridation; 
(9) develops or assists with the development of home study and 
classroom training materials related to oral disease prevention and 
oral health

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promotion, for use by state and local departments of health; (10) 
evaluates information, educational activities, and oral health 
promotion projects proposed or completed by other agencies or private 
organizations; (11) develops procurement and assistance documents and 
monitors their progress; (12) collaborates with other components of CDC 
in developing and carrying out programs.
    Surveillance, Investigations, and Research Branch (HCL93). (1) 
Compiles and analyzes data on oral health information and dental health 
care workers from various national, regional, state, and community 
sources; 92) develops and supports, in collaboration with State and 
local health departments and other components of CDC, prototype 
surveillance systems, including protocols for measurement of oral 
health status, services, and systems; (3) monitors progress toward the 
achievement of the national oral health objectives; (4) conducts 
epidemiologic investigations of infectious diseases that occur within 
the dental setting and makes recommendations to prevent disease 
transmission during the provision of oral health services (5) maintains 
current scientific literature and CDC policy issuances that relate to 
oral health and infectious diseases; (6) serves as consultants to 
dental professional organizations and other federal agencies on 
subjects related to community-based prevention or oral diseases and 
assurance of the safety of the dental care environment; (7) develops 
research guidelines, designs protocols, and implements and evaluates 
oral health and infectious disease studies related to dentistry; (8) 
develops procurement and assistance documents and monitors their 
progress to support studies that examine important research questions 
related to community-based measures to prevent oral diseases or promote 
oral health.

    Dated: October 2, 1997.
Claire V. Broome,
Acting Director.
[FR Doc. 97-27290 Filed 10-14-97; 8:45 am]
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