[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 41 (Wednesday, March 1, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 11065]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-4860]


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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., March 21, 2000. 8:30 a.m.-
3:15 p.m., March 22, 2000.
    Place: Radisson Hotel Atlanta--Northlake, 4156 LaVista Road, 
Atlanta, Georgia 30084.
    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 March 21 meeting is 
for the Science and Program Review Work Group (SPRWG) to review 
program oversight issues which include discussion of (1) current/
future program Injury Control Research Center program activities; 
(2) review of violence against women and youth violence request for 
applications; (3) overview of external projects from NCIPC 
divisions; (4) site visit for trauma center evaluation project; (5) 
1999 work-in progress monitoring workshops summary; and (6) NCIPC 
research priorities.
    At the March 22 meeting of the full Committee, following the 
NCIPC Acting Director's update on NCIPC, discussions will include 
(1) NCIPC's Division of Acute Care, Rehabilitation Research, and 
Disability Prevention updates on key activities in spinal cord 
injury, traumatic brain injury, and poison control centers; (2) 
reports from the March 21 meetings of the Subcommittee on Family and 
Intimate Violence Prevention and SPRWG; (3) follow up report on 
NCIPC research priorities; and (4) update on the SafeUSA 
Partnership.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Person for More Information: Mr. Thomas E. Blakeney, 
Acting Executive Secretary, ACIPC, NCIPC, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, 
NE, M/S K61, Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 770/488-1481.
    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 25, 2000.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 00-4860 Filed 2-29-00; 8:45 am]
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