[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 21 (Wednesday, January 31, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8404-8405]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-2623]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Notice

    Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, 
as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 2), the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) announces the establishment by the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services, January 19, 2001, of the following Federal advisory 
committee:
    Designation: Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for 
Health Statistics.
    Purpose: The Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for 
Health Statistics (NCHS), shall provide advice and make recommendations 
to the Secretary; the Director, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC); and the Director, National Center for Health 
Statistics (NCHS), regarding the scientific and technical program goals 
and objectives, strategies, and priorities of NCHS. The Board shall 
provide advice and guidance on statistical and epidemiological research 
and activities that focus on issues such as: determinants of health; 
extent and nature of illness and disability, including life expectancy; 
incidence of various acute and chronic illnesses/impairments and 
accidental injuries; prevalence of chronic diseases and impairments; 
infant and maternal morbidity and mortality; nutrition status; 
environmental, social, and other hazards affecting health status; 
health resources associated with physician and dental visits, 
hospitalizations, nursing, are extended facilities, home health 
agencies, and other health institutions; utilization of health care in 
a broad array of settings; trends in prices/costs and sources of 
payments; Federal, State, and local government expenditures for health 
care services; the relationship between demographic and socioeconomic 
characteristics and health characteristics; family formation, growth, 
and dissolution; new or improved methods for obtaining current data on 
the aforementioned factors; data security and confidentiality and 
comparability of data; and standardized means to collect information 
and statistics. Additionally, the Board shall make recommendations 
about opportunities for NCHS programs to examine and employ new 
approaches to monitoring and evaluating key public health, health 
policy, and welfare policy changes, with particular attention to means 
to automate the collection of data, apply new data processing and 
analytic tools, and store and disseminate data in a more timely and 
accessible manner.
    Further, the Board may provide second-level scientific and 
programmatic review for applications for grants-in-aid for research/
demonstration and training activities that focus on the above matters. 
Members will be responsible for surveying the state-of-the-art of their 
respective disciplines, reporting, as appropriate, to the full 
committee and recommending convening of workshops or symposia to 
educate or update all committee members.
    Authority for this committee will expire on January 19, 2003, 
unless the Secretary of Health and Human Services, with the concurrence 
of the Committee Management Secretariat, General Services 
Administration, formally determines that continuance is in the public 
interest.
    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.


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    Dated: January 25, 2001.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 01-2623 Filed 1-30-01; 8:45 am]
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