[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 1 (Friday, January 2, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 87-90]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-31907]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations for 
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

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69296, October 20, 1980, as amended most recently at 68 FR 65935-37, 
dated November 24, 2003) is amended to reflect the reorganization of 
the Epidemiology Program Office.
    Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as 
follows:
    Delete the mission statement for the Epidemiology Program Office 
(CB) and insert the following:
    (1) Plans, directs, and managed CDC-wide training and service 
programs, including the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), the 
Preventive Medicine Residency (PMR), and the Public Health Program 
Specialist (PHPS) programs, as well as various internship and 
fellowship programs; (2) plans, develops, edits, publishes and 
disseminates the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), related 
publications, and various scientific and health communication documents 
and special reports; (3) serves as a focal point for the development of 
innovative methods for the collection, analysis, and communication of 
public health surveillance information (e.g. National Electronic 
Telecommunications System for Surveillance, 121 Cities Mortality 
Reporting System, and CDC WONDER); (4) in collaboration with other 
Centers, Institute, and Offices (CIOs) and state health departments, 
coordinates, develops, implements, and supports various public health 
information systems for agency application; (5) provides consultation, 
technical assistance, and training on epidemiology, public health 
surveillance and informatics, health information systems, prevention 
effectiveness, scientific communications, behavioral science, 
statistics, and development of community health practice guidelines to 
CDC/ATSDR, states, other agencies, other countries, and domestic and 
international organizations; (6) provides epidemiologic assistance and 
epidemic aid through the field assignment of epidemiologists; (7) 
provides liaison with governmental agencies, international 
organizations, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, 
and other outside groups; (8) plans, conducts, and evaluates research 
activities in various aspects of disease and injury control for global 
programs; (9) promotes the development of international field 
epidemiologic training programs; (10) develops, promotes, and 
implements programs for international and domestic data policy 
formation for decision makers to identify information needs and to use 
information for improved decision making; (11) in carrying out the 
above functions, collaborates, as appropriate, with the CDC Office of 
the Director, other CDC CIOs, domestic and international agencies and 
organizations; and (12) organizes and establishes populations for 
research in urban areas.
    Delete the functional statement for the Office of the Director 
(CB1) and insert the following:
    (1) Manages, directs, coordinates, and evaluates the activities of 
EPO; (2) develops goals and objectives and provides leadership, policy 
formation, scientific oversight, and guidance in program planing and 
development; (3) coordinates EPO program activities with other CDC 
components, other PHS agencies, other federal agencies, other 
international organizations, state and local health departments, 
community-based organizations, business, and industry; (4) consults and 
coordinates activities with medical, scientific, and other professional 
organizations interested in epidemiology, public health surveillance 
and informatics, health information systems, terrorism and emergency 
response, behavioral science, statistics, scientific communications, 
community health practice guidelines, prevention effectiveness, and 
training activities; (5) ensures quality of scientific products of EPO 
staff and adherence to ethical principles and guidelines as specified 
in Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) policy statements; 
(6) coordinates technical assistance to states, other nations and 
international organizations; (7) advises the Director, CDC, on policy 
matters concerning EPO activities; (8) conducts EPO planning and 
evaluation activities; (9) reviews, prepares, and coordinates 
legislation, congressional testimony, and briefing documents; (10) 
within the policies and guidelines of DHHS and CDC, conducts EPO 
planning and evaluation activities including tracking program 
objectives and performing evaluation studies; (11) coordinates the 
annual EPO program briefing, including preparation of all written and 
visual materials; (12) maintains liaison, on behalf of EPO, with the 
CDC Foundation and other similar organizations for the coordination of 
mutually beneficial collaborative activities; (13) plans and prepares 
EPO promotional and marketing materials; and (14) organizes and 
establishes populations for research in urban areas.
    Delete the functional statement for the Office of Scientific and 
Health Communications (CB12) and insert the following: (1) Plans, 
coordinates, edits, and produces the MMWR series and various special 
reports and publications; (2) provides editorial services and support 
to EPO; (3) develops, implements, and evaluates innovative methods for 
the communication of scientific and health information by EPO and its 
domestic and international constituents; (4) assists EPO and its 
constituents in identifying and building needed expertise, state-of-
the-art technology, logistical support, and other capacities required 
to conduct effective scientific and health communication in domestic 
and international settings; (5) provides expert consultation and 
training to EPO, other CIOs, and outside domestic and international 
constituencies on development of effective messages, materials, and 
methods to clearly and effectively communicate risks and prevention 
recommendations, including written, oral, and visual communication; (6) 
provides leadership, coordination, and collaboration for the planning 
and management of EPO communications with other CDC programs and 
outside organizations in scientific and health communications, 
including serving as the primary EPO liaison with the CDC Office of 
Communication; (7) works closely with state and federal agencies and 
EPO domestic and international constituents to develop health 
information networks and to promote information sharing; (8) in 
conjunction with the CDC Office of Communication, collaborates with 
organizations in the public and private sectors to market prevention 
strategies; (9) coordinates EPO's information-sharing activities, 
including involvement on the Internet; (10) develops, plans, 
coordinates, edits, and produces the weekly component of the MMWR 
series; (11) participates with other office personnel for the delivery 
of services and training to external organizations, both domestic and 
international, in the area of scientific and health communications; 
(12) provides EPO-wide desktop publishing support, including the 
support of the MMWR series; (13) develops, plans, coordinates, edits, 
and produces other components of the MMWR series, including the MMWR 
Recommendations and Reports, CDC Surveillance Summaries, and the Annual 
Summary of Notifiable Diseases; (14) plans, coordinates, edits, and 
produces other EPO and CDC program publications; (15) provides 
editorial services for work to be published outside CDC; (16) assists 
in review of EPO documents for editorial clearance for all 
publications; (17) develops and manages an internship program in 
scientific and health publications

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management; and (18) participates with other office personnel for the 
delivery of services and training to external organizations, both 
domestic and international, in scientific and health communications.
    Delete the functional statement for the Office of Program 
Management and Operations (CB13) and insert the following:
    (1) Provides leadership, oversight, and guidance in the management 
and operations of EPO's programs; (2) plans, coordinates, and provides 
administrative management support, advice, and guidance to EPO, 
involving the areas of fiscal management, personnel, travel, and other 
administrative services; (3) coordinates the development of the EPO 
annual budget submission; (4) directs and coordinates the activities of 
the office; (5) conducts management analyses of EPO programs and staff 
to ensure optimal utilization of resources and accomplishment of 
program objectives; (6) plans, allocates, and monitors EPO resources; 
(7) maintains liaison and collaborates with other CDC components and 
external organizations in support of EPO management and operations; (8) 
plans, coordinates, and provides information resource management 
support, advice, and guidance to EPO; (9) sets policies and procedures; 
(10) provides leadership and oversight of EPO's program management and 
operations; (11) plans, allocates, and monitors EPO-wide resources; 
(12) works closely with other federal agencies involved with EPO 
interagency agreements; (13) coordinates EPO requirements relating to 
procurement, materiel management, and intragency agreements; (14) 
provides fiscal management and stewardship of grants, contracts, and 
cooperative agreements; (15) develops and implements administrative 
policies, procedures, and operations, as appropriate for EPO, and 
prepares special reports and studies, as required, in the 
administrative management areas; and (16) conducts management analyses 
of EPO programs and resources to ensure optimal utilization of 
resources and accomplishment of program objectives.
    Office of Strategic Alliance for Prevention (CB14). (1) Provides 
leadership to CDC and other organizations to promote and support 
effective partnerships for prevention; (2) provides leadership and 
supports CDC's activities related to managed care organizations, public 
and private purchasers of health care, public health agencies, 
accrediting organizations, the health care delivery system, consumers, 
and others; (3) provides leadership to CDC and other organizations to 
promote and support effective partnerships for prevention among the key 
players in the nation's health care delivery system, including managed 
care organizations, public and private purchasers of health care, State 
and local health departments, public health agencies, accrediting 
organizations, care providers, consumers, and others; (4) advises CIOs 
on program and research needs as they relate to managed care and 
partnerships for prevention; (5) represents CDC in work with other 
governmental agencies and the private sector to improve health care 
quality and patient safety through initiatives such as the cross-
governmental QuIC (Quality Interagency Coordinating) Task Force, the 
National Quality Report, the National Quality Forum, and the National 
Committee for Quality; (6) administers and manages contract research 
related to systems of care delivery; (7) provides coordinative support 
for CDC's Clinical Performance Measurement Working Group and Managed 
Care Working Group; and (8) facilitates communication and collaboration 
between CDC scientists and managed care researchers.
    Delete the mission statement for the Division of Prevention 
Research and Analytic Methods (CB7) and insert the following:
    (1) Provides leadership to CDC and other organizations about best 
practices based on research and scientific evidence by conducting 
scientific research, developing analytic methods in prevention 
effectiveness, and producing evidence-based products; (2) develops 
evidence-based recommendations for the use or non-use of population-
based health interventions; (3) promotes CDC's capacity to conduct 
collaborative health services research with other CDC CIOs, other 
federal agencies, and state and local health departments; (4) provides 
leadership in the acquisition, application, and evaluation of economic, 
and decision science methods for use in public health; (5) develops 
capacity in the public health community to conduct and use prevention 
effectiveness studies; (6) develops new methods for evaluating delivery 
of preventive services; (7) provides consultation, technical assistance 
and training on analytic methods in prevention effectiveness, including 
prevention effectiveness, epidemiologic, evaluation, and behavioral 
studies issues to CDC and to other agencies and domestic and 
international organizations; and (8) develops projects in defined urban 
populations in which to evaluate the effectiveness of prevention 
activities.
    Delete the functional statement for the Office of the Director 
(CB71) and insert the following:
    (1) Manages, directs, and coordinates the research agenda and 
activities of the division; (2) provides leadership and guidance and 
strategic planning, policy, program and project priority planning and 
setting, program management, and operations; (3) establishes division 
goals, objectives, and priorities; (4) monitors progress in 
implementation of projects and achievement of objectives; (5) plans, 
allocates, and monitors resources; (6) provides management 
administrative and support services, and coordinates with appropriate 
EPO offices on program and administrative matters; (7) provides liaison 
with other CDC organizations, other governmental agencies, 
international organizations, and other outside groups; (8) provides 
support for internal scientific advisory groups; (9) provides 
scientific leadership and guidance to the division to assure highest 
scientific quality and professional standards; (10) provides 
coordinative support for CDC's Behavioral and Social Sciences Work 
Group; and (11) develops within CDC outcome evaluation capacity and 
systematic methods for evaluating health outcomes.
    Delete the title and functional statement for the Prevention 
Effectiveness Branch (CB72) and insert the following:
    Prevention Effectiveness and Health Economics Branch (CB72). (1) 
Establishes capacity in the public health community to conduct and use 
economic and decision analysis; (2) provides and maintains leadership 
in the development, acquisition, application, and evaluation of 
economic, decision science methods for use in public health; (3) 
conducts research about methods for public health economics and 
decision making; (4) provides economic technical assistance and 
training, consultation, direction, review and information resources to 
other organizational units within EPO and throughout CDC; (5) 
integrates prevention research with policy needs; (6) assists in making 
recommendations for policy decisions on public health policy based on 
prevention effectiveness of each prevention strategy; (7) conducts 
systematic literature reviews on the effectiveness, cost effectiveness, 
and other effects of population-based health promotion and disease 
prevention strategies and identifies gaps in evidence which can inform 
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research; (8) and supports CDC's Health Economics Research Group 
(HERG).
    Delete in their entirety the titles and functional statements for 
the Community Preventive Services Guide Section (CB732) and the 
Evaluation and Behavioral Science Methods Section (CB733), within the 
Statistics and Epidemiology Branch (CB73), Division of Prevention 
Research and Analytic Methods (CB7).
    After the Statistics and Epidemiology Branch (CB73), insert the 
following:
    Community Guide and Evidence Branch (CB74). (1) Convenes and 
supports the independent Task Force on Community Preventive Services 
which develops evidence-based recommendations for the use or non-use of 
population-based health interventions; (2) produces and promotes use of 
the Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide), a 
compilation of the systematic reviews, evidence-based recommendations, 
and research needs; (3) performs evidence reviews of the efficacy and 
effectiveness of prevention activities not associated with the 
Community Guide; (4) assists CDC and other Federal and non-Federal 
partners to understand, use, refine, and communicate methods for 
conducting systematic reviews; (5) assists CDC and other federal and 
non-Federal partners to link reviews of evidence to guidelines 
development and/or program implementation; (6) coordinates and manages 
large and diverse teams of internal and external partners in the 
systematic preview process; (7) coordinates and manages a working group 
of CDC, DHHS, and non-governmental partners to develop and/or refine 
methods for conducting systematic reviews; (8) provides consultations 
for implementing Community Guide recommended strategies; (9) 
coordinates and manages a working group of CDC, DHHS and non-
governmental partners to diffuse Community Guide reviews, 
recommendations, and research needs to appropriate audiences throughout 
the U.S. health care and public health systems; (10) participates in 
the development of national and regional public/private partnerships to 
enhance prevention research and the translation of evidence into policy 
and action; (11) conducts scientific evaluation of the Division-related 
prevention activities; (12) identifies opportunities for and conducts 
passive and active dissemination of the Community Guide reviews and 
recommendations and integration of these products into decision-making 
process; (13) identifies and conducts passive and active dissemination 
of research needs identified in the Community Guide to key partners who 
have the capacity to fund and/or conduct additional research that would 
close gaps identified in the systematic reviews process; (14) 
communicates the Community Guide's reviews, recommendations, and 
research needs beyond the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) 
and the American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM) publications via 
other journals, books, the world wide web, and other media; (15) 
designs and conducts programmatic, process and outcome evaluation 
strategies for all stages of development and diffusion of the Guide to 
Community Preventive Services; (16) creates materials and manages 
dissemination of the Community Guide and other Division tools that 
promote effective decision making and use of effective prevention 
tools; (17) assists in making recommendations for prevention and policy 
decisions; (18) provides technical assistance; (19) provides 
coordination support for CDC's Behavioral and Social Sciences Work 
Group; and (20) develops within CDC outcome evaluation capacity and 
systematic methods for evaluating health outcomes.

    Dated: December 16, 2003.
William H. Gimson,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC).
[FR Doc. 03-31907 Filed 12-31-03; 8:45 am]
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