[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 177 (Thursday, September 12, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 57817]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-23109]


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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: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., September 27, 2002.
    Place: The Adams Mark Hotel, 1550 Court Place, Denver, Colorado 
80202-5107, Phone: (303) 893-3333.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The Subcommittee on Populations, NCVHS, is holding a 
hearing to discuss issues relating to statistics for the 
determination of health disparities in racial and ethnic 
populations. The focus will be on issues related to the collection 
and use of data on race and ethnicity for American Indian/Alaska 
Native populations. Invited panelists will address methodologies 
issues (e.g., misclassification, small area analysis, 
confidentiality concerns) on the collection of data on 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.
    Contact Person for More Information: Additional information 
about this meeting as well as summaries of past meetings and a 
roster of committee members may be obtained from Audrey L. Burwell, 
Office of Minority Health, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockwall II Building, 
Suite 100, Rockville, Maryland 20857, telephone: (301) 443-1129, fax 
(301) 443-8280, e-mail [email protected]; 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.hhhs.gov/ 
where an agenda and more details about participation in the meeting 
or Subcommittee deliberations will be posted when available.

    Dated: August 27, 2002.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
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