[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 24 (Thursday, February 5, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 5547]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-2394]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Guide to Community Preventive Services (GCPS) Task Force

    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 meeting:

    Name: Task Force on Community Preventive Services
    Times and Dates:
8:30 a.m.-6:15 p.m., February 25, 2004
8 a.m.-1:45 p.m., February 26, 2004
    Place: The Crowne Plaza Ravinia, 4355 Ashford Dunwoody Road, 
Atlanta, Georgia 30346-1521, telephone (770) 395-7700.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
    Purpose: The mission of the Task Force is to develop and publish 
a Guide to Community Preventive Services, which is based on the best 
available scientific evidence and current expertise regarding 
essential public health and what works in the delivery of those 
services.
    Matters To Be Discussed: Agenda items include: briefings on 
administrative information, health care system interventions for 
obesity prevention, school based interventions for tobacco use 
prevention, environmental approaches to increasing physical 
activity, multi-component school nutrition programs for improving 
nutritional behavior and nutritional status of children and 
adolescents, group education approaches to promoting cancer 
screening, renewed progress on the Alcohol Chapter, folic acid 
reviews, implementing the vaccine coverage recommendations: Is the 
syringe half empty or half full? Violence Chapter.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    For Further Information Contact: Peter Briss, M.D.,Chief, 
Community Guide Branch, Division of PreventionResearch and Analytic 
Methods, Epidemiology Program Office,CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, M/S 
K-73, Atlanta, Georgia, telephone (770) 488-8189.
    Persons interested in reserving a space for this meeting should 
call (770) 488-8189 by close of business on February 23, 2004.
    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: January 30, 2004.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, CDC.
[FR Doc. 04-2394 Filed 2-4-04; 8:45 am]
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