[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 74 (Monday, April 17, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20472-20473]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-9445]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


``Conference on Challenges in Health Disparity in the New 
Millennium: A Call to Action''

    Notice is hereby given of the NIH Office of Research on Minority 
Health (ORMH) Conference on Challenges in Health Disparity in the New 
Millennium: A Call to Action, which will be held April 16-19, 2000, at 
the

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Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue, NW, 
Washington, D. C. 20001. The conference begins at 8:00 a.m. on April 
17, 8:00 a.m. on April 18, and 8:30 a.m. on April 19.
    The Office of Research on Minority Health (ORMH), Office of the 
Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH), is convening this 
conference. ORMH is a central leadership entity at the NIH for issues 
related to minority health research and research training. Reports of 
progress and accomplishments since the founding of ORMH in 1990 and 
developing a strategic plan for future actions for eliminating health 
research and research training disparities comprise the agenda of the 
conference.
    Specific conference objectives include:
     Recommending a framework for the ORMH to address 
continuing disparity in health status of the US population and the 
international community through the Minority Health Strategic Plan;
     Highlighting the role of the ORMH to address disparity in 
health status through basic and clinical research and research training 
in biomedical and behavioral sciences; and
     Promoting partnerships with leaders in Congress, 
associations, academic institutions, industry, community-based 
organizations, and other Federal agencies to help eliminate health 
disparity.
    The primary sponsor of this conference is ORMH. Advance information 
on the conference program and conference registration materials maybe 
obtained from Debra Rainey, LCLM, LLC, Inc., 1299 Lamberton Drive, 
Suite 205, Silver Spring, Maryland 20902 (telephone: 301-593-2800).

    Dated: April 7, 2000.
Yvonne Maddox,
Acting Deputy Director, National Institutes of Health.
[FR Doc. 00-9445 Filed 4-14-00; 8:45 am]
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