[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 166 (Monday, August 29, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51069-51070]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-17072]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of 
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 69296, October 20, 1980, as 
amended most recently at 70 FR 46527-46530, dated August 10, 2005) is 
amended to reflect the establishment of the Office of Chief of Public 
Health Practice within the Office of the Director, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
    After the mission statement for the Office of Workforce and Career 
Development (CAL), insert the following:
    Office of Chief of Public Health Practice (CAR). The Office of 
Chief of Public Health Practice (OCPHP) serves as the advocate, 
guardian, promoter, and conscience of public health practice throughout 
CDC and in the larger public health community; ensures coordination and 
synergy of CDC's scientific and practice activities; and promotes and 
protects the public's health through science-based, practice-relevant 
standards, policies, and legal tools. Activities in support of the 
mission are carried out through programs and offices focused on public 
health law, public health system standards, agency accreditation, and 
surveillance for emerging issues in public health practice. To carry 
out its mission, OCPHP: (1) Develops the legal preparedness of CDC 
programs and the public health system to address terrorism and other 
national public

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health priorities; (2) improves the understanding and use of law as a 
public health tool by CDC programs and extramural partners; (3) 
establishes robust partnerships among CDC programs, public health 
practitioners and key sectors, including elected officials, the legal 
community, and law enforcement and emergency response organizations; 
(4) establishes a functional area focused specifically on standards and 
improvement in practice among state and local public health systems; 
(5) advances the development and implementation of a national agency 
accreditation system; (6) relates relevant research and policy analysis 
to public health practice; (7) monitors and anticipates public health 
practice trends and issues; and (8) coordinates and addresses cross-
cutting issues related to public health practice within CDC.

    Dated: August 10, 2005.
William H. Gimson,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC).
[FR Doc. 05-17072 Filed 8-26-05; 8:45 am]
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