[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 28 (Monday, February 11, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6261-6262]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-3251]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics: Meeting

    Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Department of 
Health and Human Services announces the following advisory committee 
meeting.

    Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), 
Subcommittee on Populations.
    Time and Date:
    8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., February 11, 2002.
    8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., February 12, 2002.
    Place: Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 705A, 200 Independence 
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20201.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The Subcommittee on Populations, NCVHS, is holding a 
hearing on February 11-12, 2002 to discuss issues relating to 
statistics for the determination of health disparities in racial and 
ethnic populations. The focus will be large population-based surveys 
conducted by the federal government. Invited panelists will address 
the measurement of race and ethnicity, use of mixed race data, 
measurement of ethnic identity and perspectives on variables beyond 
race and ethnicity needed to determined health disparities in racial 
and ethnic groups.
    Notice: In the interest of security, the Department has 
instituted stringent procedures for entrance to the Hubert H. 
Humphrey building by non-government employees. Thus, persons without 
a government identification card will need to have the guard call 
for an escort to the meeting.
    For Further Information Contact: Substantive program information 
as well as summaries of meetings and a roster of committee members 
may be obtained from Susan G. Queen, Ph.D., Deputy Director, 
Division of Information and Analysis, Health Resources and Services 
Administration, Room 11-05, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, 
telephone: (301) 443-1129; or Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive 
Secretary, NCVHS, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention, Room 1100, Presidential Building, 
6525 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone: (301) 
458-4245. Information also is available on the NCVHS home page of 
the HHS Web site: http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/ where an agenda for the 
meeting will be posted when available.


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    Dated: January 30, 2002.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 02-3251 Filed 2-8-02; 8:45 am]
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