[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 34 (Monday, February 22, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 8574]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-4245]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


The Translation Advisory Committee for Diabetes Prevention and 
Control Programs; Meeting

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) announces the following committee meeting.

    Name: Translation Advisory Committee for Diabetes Prevention and 
Control Programs.
    Times and Dates: 9 a.m.-6 p.m., March 16, 1999; 9 a.m.-1 p.m., 
March 17, 1999.
    Place: Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown, 590 W. Peachtree 
Street, NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30308, telephone 404/881-6000.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. 
The meeting room accommodates approximately 50 people.
    Purpose: This committee is charged with advising the Director, 
CDC, regarding policy issues and broad strategies for diabetes 
translation activities and control programs designed to reduce risk 
factors, health services utilization, costs, morbidity, and 
mortality associated with diabetes and its complications. The 
Committee identifies research advances and technologies ready for 
translation into widespread community practice; recommends broad 
public health strategies to be implemented through public health 
interventions; identifies opportunities for surveillance and 
epidemiologic assessment of diabetes and related complications; and 
for the purpose of assuring the most effective use and organization 
of resources, maintains liaison and coordination of programs within 
the Federal, voluntary, and private sectors involved in the 
provision of services to people with diabetes.
    Matters To Be Discussed: Agenda items include the discussion of 
public health issues pertinent to risk stratification as it applies 
to diabetes mellitus in the Division of Diabetes Translation 
priorities.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Person for More Information: Norma Loner, Committee 
Management Specialist, Division of Diabetes Translation, National 
Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC, 
4770 Buford Highway, NE, M/S K-10, Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3717, 
telephone 770/488-5376.
    The Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, has been 
delegated the authority to sign Federal Register Notices pertaining 
to announcements of meetings and other committee management 
activities, for both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

    Dated: February 12, 1999.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 99-4245 Filed 2-19-99; 8:45 am]
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