[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 60 (Thursday, March 28, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 14954]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-7385]


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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 56562-63, dated November 8, 2001) is 
amended to revise the mission statement for the Office of the Director, 
Division of Adult and Community Health, and establish the Emerging 
Investigations and Analytic Methods Branch, Division of Adult and 
Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and 
Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as 
follows:
    Delete the mission statement for the Office of the Director (CL31), 
Division of Adult and Community Health (CL3), and insert the following:
    (1) Manages, coordinates, and evaluates the activities and programs 
of the Division; (2) ensures that Division activities are coordinated 
with other components of CDC both within and outside the Center, with 
Federal, State, and local health agencies, and with voluntary and 
professional health agencies; (3) provides leadership and coordinates 
Division responses to requests for research, consultation, training, 
collaboration, and technical assistance or information on managed care, 
health promotion, behavioral surveys, cardiovascular health, aging, 
epilepsy, and arthritis; (4) provides administrative, logistical, and 
management support for Division field staff; (5) provides 
administrative and management support for the Division including 
guidance on the organization of personnel and the use of financial 
resources, and oversight of grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, 
and reimbursable agreements.
    After the functional statement for the Cardiovascular Health Branch 
(CL33), insert the following:
    Emerging Investigations and Analytic Methods Branch (CL34). (1) 
Conducts epidemiologic research and investigations of cross-cutting 
emerging scientific issues for NCCDPHP; (2) uses geographic information 
systems (GIS) to provide spatial and temporal relationships among data; 
(3) conducts operational research to evaluate the cost-effectiveness or 
cost-benefit of chronic disease prevention and control technologies and 
develops and recommends national policy to address issues related to 
the economics of health care; (4) performs research on racism and its 
social determinants on health, adverse childhood events, mental health, 
gene environment interactions, and alcohol; (5) coordinates and 
provides guidance in the evaluation of community and state-based 
intervention programs; (6) designs and produces a wide range of visual 
materials (e.g., slides, overheads, exhibits) for presentations and 
instructional activities; (7) coordinates Branch activities through the 
Division with other components of CDC, other Federal, State, and local 
Government agencies, and other private, public, nonprofit, and 
international organizations as appropriate.

    Dated: March 19, 2002.
Jeffrey P. Koplan,
Director.
[FR Doc. 02-7385 Filed 3-27-02; 8:45 am]
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