[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 117 (Monday, June 20, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 35444]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-12062]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Guide to Community Preventive Services (GCPS) Task Force: Meeting

    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 a.m.-6 p.m., June 22, 2005; 8 a.m.-1 p.m., 
June 23, 2005.
    Place: Crowne Plaza Atlanta Buckhead 3377 Peachtree Road NE, 
Atlanta, Georgia 30326, telephone (404) 264-1111.
    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, marketing plan and current efforts, 
update on evaluation of awareness of Community Guide, web-based 
abstraction form for systematic reviews, revision and web posting of 
the Community Guide protocol manual, discussion about home 
visitation programs for violence prevention. Considered reviews and 
possible recommendations for the following interventions: Violence 
prevention, including: Reducing the harmful consequences of trauma 
among juveniles, school violence prevention programs, worksite 
health promotion, including: Point-of-decision prompts to increase 
stair use: Incentives to stop using tobacco, and reducing 
environmental tobacco smoke; HIV risk reduction interventions; 
provider assessment and feedback to promote cancer screening.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Person or Additional Information: Peter Briss, M.D., 
Team Leader, Community Guide, Coordinating Center for Health 
Information and Service (CoCHIS), National Center for Health 
Marking, Division of Scientific Communication, 4770 Buford Highway, 
M/S K95, Atlanta, Georgia 770-488-8338. Persons interested in 
reserving a space for this meeting should call 770/488-8590 by close 
of business on June 21, 2005.
    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: June 14, 2005.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 05-12062 Filed 6-17-05; 8:45 am]
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