[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 14, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14904-14906]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-6281]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of 
Authority

    Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the 
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of 
the Department of Health and Human Services (45 FR 67772-76, dated 
October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR 69296, October 20, 1980, as 
amended most recently at 66 FR 1363-1364, dated January 8, 2001) is 
amended to reorganize the Division of Violence Prevention, National 
Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
    Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as 
follows:
    Delete the functional statement for the Division of Violence 
Prevention (CE4), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control 
(CE), and insert the following:
    (1) Provides leadership in developing and executing a national 
program for the prevention and control of non-occupational violence-
related injuries and death which addresses, but is not limited to, 
youth violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, suicide, 
elder abuse, and child abuse; (2) develops and disseminates policies, 
recommendations, and guidelines for the prevention of violence and its 
consequences; (3) proposes goals and objectives for national violence 
prevention and control programs, monitors progress toward these goals 
and objectives, and recommends and develops guidelines for priority 
prevention and control activities; (4) facilitates similar strategic 
planning activities by other Federal, State, and local agencies, 
academic institutions, and private and other public organizations; (5) 
plans, directs, conducts, and supports research focused on the causes 
of violence and the development and evaluation of strategies to prevent 
and control violence-related injuries and deaths; (6) plans, 
establishes, and evaluates surveillance systems to monitor national 
trends in morbidity, mortality, disabilities, and cost of violence-
related injuries and deaths, and facilitates the development of 
surveillance systems by State and local agencies; (7) plans, conducts, 
supports, and evaluates demonstration projects and programs to prevent 
and control violence; (8) provides technical assistance, consultation, 
training, and eipemiological, statistical, educational, and other 
technical services to assist State and local health departments and 
community-based organizations in the planning, development, 
implementation, evaluation, and overall improvement of violence 
prevention programs; (9) supports the dissemination of research 
findings and transfer of violence prevention and control technologies 
to Federal, State, and local agencies, private organizations, and other 
national and international groups; (10) in carrying out the above 
functions, collaborates with other Divisions of NICIPC, CDC Centers/
Institute/Offices, HHS, other Federal, State, and local departments and 
agencies, academic institutions, and voluntary, private sector, and 
international organizations, as appropriate.
    Office of the Director (CE41). (1) Plans, directs, and evaluates 
the activities of the Division; (2) provides national leadership and 
guidance in policy formation and program planning,

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development, and evaluation; (3) provides administrative, fiscal, and 
technical support for Division programs and units; (4) assures multi-
disciplinary collaboration in violence prevention and control 
activities; (5) provides leadership for developing research in 
etiologic, epidemiologic, and behavioral aspects of violence prevention 
and control, and for coordinating activities within the Division and 
others involved in violence prevention; (6) prepares, edits, and 
monitors clearance of manuscripts for publication in scientific and 
technical journals and publications, including articles and guidelines 
published in the ``MMWR,'' and other publications for the public; (7) 
prepares, tracks and coordinates controlled and general correspondence; 
(8) prepares responses and coordinates provision of materials requested 
by Congress and the Department of Health and Human Services; (9) 
coordinates international violence prevention and control activities of 
the Division; (10) collaborates, as appropriate, with other divisions 
and offices in NCIPC, and with other CIOs throughout CDC; (11) 
collaborates, as appropriate, with non-governmental organizations to 
achieve the mission of the Division, (12) establishes linkages with 
other CIOs and national level prevention partners that impact on 
violence prevention programs.
    Etiology and Surveillance Branch (CE42). (1) Plans, directs, 
conducts, and supports research focused on identifying high-risk 
population groups, causal factors, and other risk and protective 
factors, including psychosocial, cultural, and contextual determinants, 
for violence and its consequences; (2) conducts national surveillance 
and surveys of violence and its consequences, analyzes incidence and 
prevalence data, and monitors trends in violence and its trajectory 
across the lifespan; (3) identifies research findings and technologies 
that have potential to prevent or control violence and its 
consequences; (4) assists State and local health agencies to establish 
violence surveillance systems and to utilize surveillance data to 
describe the state or local burden of violence; (5) designs and 
conducts other etiologic and epidemiologic research that contributes to 
scientific knowledge regarding violence; (6) monitors activities of 
contracts, cooperative agreements, and grants to ensure operational 
objectives are being met; (7) provides information on violence 
surveillance and epidemiology to the scientific community and the 
general public through publications and presentations that include, but 
are not limited to, quantitative syntheses; (8) works with other 
branches to stimulate the development, evaluation, and dissemination of 
intervention and prevention strategies; (9) provides leadership and 
expands collaborations with other Federal, State, local, voluntary, 
professional and international organizations in all aspects of 
surveillance and etiologic research activities of violence and its 
consequences.
    Prevention Development and Evaluation Branch (CE43). (1) Plans, 
directs, conducts, and supports applied research focused on the 
development and evaluation of strategies and interventions to prevent 
violence-related injuries and deaths; (2) develops and evaluates 
methodologies for conducting program evaluation; (3) evaluates the 
effectiveness, costs, and impact of violence prevention interventions, 
strategies, policies, and programs as practiced or implemented by 
public health agencies and organizations at the national/regional and 
state/local levels; (4) uses research findings to develop and improve 
the impact of interventions to reduce risk factors for violent behavior 
and its consequences; (5) assesses socioeconomic, educational, and 
other factors for use in targeting and evaluating prevention programs; 
(6) collaborates in the application of evaluation findings and 
techniques to the ongoing assessment and improvement of violence 
prevention and control programs; (7) conducts research activities that 
include economic evaluations of violence prevention, including 
assessment of alternative prevention strategies to encourage the best 
use of prevention resources; (8) applies evaluation methods to improve 
violence prevention activities, including serving as a resource to 
other branches, grantees, and prevention partners in the development of 
methods to support systematic assessment and continuous improvement of 
violence prevention programs; (9) monitors activities of contracts, 
cooperative agreements, and grants to ensure operational objectives are 
being met; (10) works with other branches to stimulate etiologic 
research, surveillance, and programmatic activities; (11) contributes 
to the intervention research literature by publishing regularly in 
peer-reviewed journals and CDC-sponsored publications that include, but 
are not limited to, the synthesis of the implementation and evaluation 
of violence prevention and intervention strategies; (12) collaborates 
with other components within CDC and HHS and other Federal agencies, 
national professional, voluntary and philanthropic organizations and 
international agencies.
    Program Implementation and Dissemination Branch (CE44). (1) 
Provides programmatic leadership and support for violence prevention 
and control programs at the state, local, and community levels through 
the development and dissemination of policies, recommendations, and 
guidelines for the prevention of violence and its consequences; (2) 
conducts research to examine the processes and factors that influence 
effective and efficient translation, diffusion, and sustainability of 
intervention research findings to violence prevention programs; (3) 
works with other Division branches to synthesize, translate, and 
disseminate research findings applicable to violence prevention program 
managers, practitioners, and policy-makers through training, 
conferences, newsletters, and other means; (4) provides technical 
consultation, support, and services to national, State, and local 
health agencies, and non-governmental organizations to plan, develop, 
and implement violence prevention programs and to evaluate the overall 
quality and effectiveness of prevention activities; (5) assesses 
training and technical assistance needs and develops strategies to 
address the training of grantee organizations, other external partners 
involved in violence prevention programs and activities, and Division 
staff; (96) monitors, tracks, and assesses program activities in state-
based violence prevention programs; (7) develops and maintains liaison 
and collaborative relationships with professional, community, 
international, and voluntary agencies involved in violence prevention 
and control activities; (8) provides linkages between health department 
violence programs and other governmental and non-governmental agencies, 
and managed care community or private medical sector to enhance and 
evaluate violence prevention services in public and private health care 
delivery systems; (9) monitors activities of contracts, cooperative 
agreements, and grants to ensure operational objectives are being met; 
(10) produces and provides scientific, statistical, visual, and 
technical information and materials on violence prevention for 
dissemination to health care professionals, public health officials, 
prevention partners, the media,

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and the general public, through publications, newsletters, 
bibliographies, press releases, public service announcements, and other 
electronic and printed materials; (11) maintains a specialized 
collection of violence resources that includes subject files and 
reprints of CDC-authored publications and ``MMWR'' articles; (12) works 
closely with relevant offices or groups, including the NCIPC Office of 
Communication Resources and the CDC Office of Communication, to secure 
appropriate clearance of materials; (13) implements national violence 
prevention public information programs and assists in developing 
strategic communications activities and services at the national level 
to inform and educate the American public about violence, especially 
people who are at greatest risk.

    Dated: March 5, 2001.
Jeffrey P. Koplan,
Director.
[FR Doc. 01-6281 Filed 3-13-01; 8:45 am]
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