[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 201 (Thursday, October 17, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64126-64127]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-26379]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Science and Program Review Subcommittee (SPRS) and the Advisory 
Committee for Injury Prevention and Control (ACIPC): Meetings

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) announces the following subcommittee and committee 
meetings.

    Name: Science and Program Review Subcommittee to ACIPC.
    Time and Date: 8:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m., November 6, 2002.
    Place: Sheraton Colony Square Hotel Midtown Atlanta, 188 14th 
Street, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30361.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
    Purpose: The Subcommittee provides advice on the needs, 
structure, progress and performance of the National Center for 
Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) programs. The Subcommittee 
provides second-level scientific and programmatic review for 
applications for research grants, cooperative agreements, and 
training grants related to injury control and violence prevention, 
and recommends approval of projects that merit further consideration 
for funding support. The Subcommittee also advises on priorities for 
research to be supported by contracts, grants, and cooperative 
agreements and provides concept review of program proposals and 
announcements.
    Matters to be Discussed: Agenda items of the Subcommittee 
oversight meeting include presentations and discussions on the 
fiscal year 2001 and 2002 NCIPC research budget; enhancing 
relationships between extramural researchers and NCIPC staff; 
policies on mid-course reviews of Injury Control Research Centers 
(ICRCs); and length of ICRC research projects. Following the 
oversight meeting, the Subcommittee will conduct an acute care 
workshop in which several researchers will present current projects 
that have been funded in the acute care area. The discussions that 
occur in the workshop will

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have relevance to the agenda for the full ACIPC meeting that 
follows.

    Name: Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control.
    Time and Dates: 1:30 p.m.-6 p.m., November 6, 2002. 8 a.m.-3 
p.m., November 7, 2002.
    Place: Sheraton Colony Square Hotel Midtown Atlanta, 188 14th 
Street, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30361.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
    Purpose: The Committee advises and makes recommendations to the 
Secretary, Health and Human Services, the Director, CDC, and the 
Director, NCIPC, regarding feasible goals for the prevention and 
control of injury. The Committee makes recommendations regarding 
policies, strategies, objectives, and priorities, and reviews 
progress toward injury prevention and control. The Committee 
provides advice on the appropriate balance of intramural and 
extramural research, and also provides guidance on the needs, 
structure, progress and performance of intramural programs, and on 
extramural scientific program matters. The Committee provides 
second-level scientific and programmatic review for applications for 
research grants, cooperative agreements, and training grants related 
to injury control and violence prevention, and recommends approval 
of projects that merit further consideration for funding support. 
The Committee also recommends areas of research to be supported by 
contracts and cooperative agreements and provides concept review of 
program proposals and announcements.
    Matters to be Discussed: Agenda items include reports from the 
Science and Program Review Subcommittee and Family and Intimate 
Violence Prevention Subcommittee; an update on CDC's preparedness 
efforts; an update on unintentional poisoning in North Carolina; 
fatal intimate partner violence, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, 2002; an 
introduction to the issue of the public health role in acute care 
for injury prevention and control; NCIPC activities in acute care; 
presentations on acute care from representatives of professional 
medical organizations, including emergency medical services, 
emergency medicine, and trauma medicine specialists, which will 
provide ACIPC members with an overview of the state of trauma care 
in the United States and identify gaps that need to be filled; 
discussion of possible NCIPC contributions to acute care for injury; 
and NCIPC's 10th Anniversary celebrations and follow-up plan.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.

    Contact Person for More Information: Ms. Louise Galaska, 
Executive Secretary, ACIPC, NCIPC, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, M/S 
K02, Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone (770) 488-4694.
    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.

    Dated: October 10, 2002.
Burma Burch,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 02-26379 Filed 10-16-02; 8:45 am]
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