[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 13 (Friday, January 20, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3307-3308]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-615]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Centers for Disease

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Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the following meeting.

    Name: Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee 
(HICPAC).
    Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., February 9, 2006. 8:30 a.m.-4 
p.m., February 10, 2006.
    Place: CDC Roybal Campus, Bldg 19, Auditorium B3, 1600 Clifton 
Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30333.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
    Purpose: The Committee is charged with providing advice and 
guidance to the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services; 
the Assistant Secretary for Health; the Director, CDC; and the 
Director, National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID) regarding 
(1) the practice of hospital infection control; (2) strategies for 
surveillance, prevention, and control of infections (e.g., 
nosocomial infections), antimicrobial resistance, and related events 
in settings where healthcare is provided; and (3) periodic updating 
of guidelines and other policy statements regarding prevention of 
healthcare-associated infections and healthcare-related conditions.
    Matters To Be Discussed: Agenda items will include informatics 
and healthcare-associated infections, updates on public reporting, 
updates on pandemic flu, updates on antimicrobial resistance, and 
updates on CDC activities of interest to the committee.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Person For More Information: Harriette Lynch, Committee 
Management Specialist, HICPAC, Division of Healthcare Quality 
Promotion, NCID, CDC, l600 Clifton Road, NE, M/S A-07, Atlanta, 
Georgia 30333, telephone (404)639-4035.
    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 12, 2006.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. E6-615 Filed 1-19-06; 8:45 am]
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