[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 208 (Thursday, October 28, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 58068]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-28135]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control: 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: Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control 
(ACIPC).
    Times and Dates: 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m., November 16, 1999; 8:30 
a.m.-3:15 p.m., November 17, 1999.
    Place: Holiday Inn Select Atlanta-Decatur Hotel and Conference 
Plaza, 130 Clairemont Avenue, Decatur, Georgia 30030.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
    Purpose: The Committee advises and makes recommendations to the 
Secretary, the Assistant Secretary for Health, and the Director, 
CDC, regarding feasible goals for the prevention and control of 
injury. The Committee makes recommendations regarding policies, 
strategies, objectives, and priorities, and reviews progress toward 
injury prevention and control. The Committee provides advice on the 
appropriate balance of intramural and extramural research, and also 
provides guidance on the needs, structure, progress and performance 
of intramural programs, and on extramural scientific program 
matters. The Committee provides second-level scientific and 
programmatic review for applications for research grants, 
cooperative agreements, and training grants related to injury 
control and violence prevention, and recommends approval of projects 
that merit further consideration for funding support. The Committee 
also recommends areas of research to be supported by contracts and 
cooperative agreements and provides concept review of program 
proposals and announcements.
    Matters to be Discussed: The purpose of the November 16 meeting 
is for the Science and Program Review Work Group (SPRWG) to review 
program oversight issues which include discussions on the 
biomechanics review; non-Office of Research Grants/National Center 
for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) extramural fiscal year 
1999 awards; BioCAD and whiplash projects; Injury Control Research 
Center request for proposals; and NCIPC research agenda. At the 
November 17 meeting of the full Committee, following introduction of 
the new NCIPC Acting Director, and the Acting Director's update on 
NCIPC, discussions will include (1) A strategic planning update; (2) 
NCIPC Division of Violence Prevention update on youth violence and 
suicide prevention efforts; reports from the November 16 meetings of 
the (3) Subcommittee on Family and Intimate Violence Prevention and 
(4) SPRWG; and (5) NCIPC Research priorities.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.

    Contact person for more information: Mr. Wayne Stephens, 
Executive Secretary, ACIPC, NCIPC, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, M/S 
K61, Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 770/488-1465.
    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: October 21, 1999.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 99-28135 Filed 10-27-99; 8:45 am]
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