[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 189 (Tuesday, September 30, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56295-56296]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-24673]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control

    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 (SPRS), meetings 
of the Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control, and its 
subcommittees, the Science and Program Review Subcommittee

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and the Subcommittee on Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual 
Assault.
    Time and Date: 8 a.m.-10:15 a.m., November 5, 2003.
    Place: The Westin Atlanta North at Perimeter, 7 Concourse 
Parkway, Atlanta, Georgia 30328.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
    Purpose: The SPRS provides advice on the needs, structure, 
progress and performance of programs of the National Center for 
Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), as well as 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 
SPRS 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: The SPRS will discuss the new research 
agenda, upcoming program announcements and meeting dates.
    Name: Subcommittee on Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual 
Assault (SIPVSA).
    Time and Date: 8:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m., November 5, 2003.
    Place: The Westin Atlanta North at Perimeter, 7 Concourse 
Parkway, Atlanta, Georgia 30328.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
    Purpose: To advise and make recommendations to the full advisory 
committee and the Director, NCIPC, regarding feasible goals for 
prevention and control of domestic and sexual violence. The SIPVSA 
will make recommendations regarding strategies, objectives, and 
priorities in programs, policies and research, and will also review 
the NCIPC research agenda priorities and implementation related to 
intimate partner violence and sexual assault.
    Matters to be Discussed: The SIPVSA will hold a conference call 
meeting to discuss strategies for examining models for integration 
of intimate partner violence and sexual assault prevention into 
broader public health infrastructure and strategies.
    Place: The Westin Atlanta North at Perimeter, 7 Concourse 
Parkway, Atlanta, Georgia 30328.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
    Name: Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control.
    Time and Dates:

1 p.m.-5:45 p.m., November 5, 2003.
8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., November 6, 2003.
    Place: The Westin Atlanta North at Perimeter, 7 Concourse 
Parkway, Atlanta, Georgia 30328.
    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.
    Matters to be Discussed: Prior to the full committee meeting, 
there will be a brief meeting conducted by conference call of the 
Working Group on Injury Control and Infrastructure Enhancement, a 
group formed to report to the full committee identifying gaps and 
suggesting ways to enhance injury prevention efforts. The working 
group will focus on defining injury infrastructure and developing a 
simple mechanism to assess current efforts underway throughout the 
injury field to enhance that infrastructure. Starting at 1 p.m., the 
full committee will meet. Agenda items include an update on Center 
activities from the Director, NCIPC; discussion of results of DHHS' 
review of the Federal Advisory Committee survey results of ACIPC; 
reports from the Subcommittees and Working Group; state 
infrastructure development; an introduction to CDC's Injury Research 
Agenda charge to the Committee, update of research implementation 
and evaluation, review of plans for updating the research agenda; 
and ways of ensuring the translation of research into practice; 
updating the acute care agenda; NCIPC injury prevention 
recommendations, CDC's Strategic Initiative; and implementation of 
the President's Management Agenda at CDC.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 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 CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and 
Disease Registry.

    Dated: September 24, 2003.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 03-24673 Filed 9-29-03; 8:45 am]
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