[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 202 (Friday, October 18, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 64373]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-26581]


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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., November 8, 2002.
    Place: The Public Ledger Building, 150 S. Independence Mall 
West, Conference Room 415, Philadelphia, PA 19106, Phone: 215-861-
4667.
    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 State related issues in the 
collection and use of data on race and ethnicity. Invited panelists 
will address State and local collection of data on race and 
ethnicity, use of mixed race data, measurement of ethnic identity 
and perspecitves 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 Public Ledger 
Building by non-government employees. Thus, persons without a 
government identification card will need to present a photo 
identification card to the guard for admittance 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 Audrey L. Burwell, Senior Policy Analyst, 
Office of Minority Health, Department of Health and Human Services, 
Suite 1000, 5515 Security Lane, Rockville, MD, 20852, telephone: 
(301) 443-9923, e-mail: [email protected]; or Marjorie S. 
Greenberg, Executive Secretary, NCVHS, National Center for Health 
Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Room 1100, 
Presidetial 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.

    Dated: October 7, 2002.
James Scanlon,
Director, Division of Data Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 02-26581 Filed 10-17-02; 8:45 am]
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