[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 20 (Tuesday, January 31, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5060-5062]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-857]


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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 72842-72843, dated December 7, 2005) is 
amended to reflect the establishment of the Division for Heart Disease 
and Stroke Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention 
and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    Delete in its entirety the title and functional statement for the 
Cardiovascular Health Branch (CL33), Division of Adult and Community 
Health (CL3).
    After the mission statement for the Program Services Branch 
(CUCLD), Office of Smoking and Health (CUCL), insert the following:
    Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (CUCM). (1) Plans, 
directs, and coordinates programs to reduce morbidity, risk factors, 
costs, disability, mortality, and disparities associated with heart 
disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular disease outcomes; (2) 
provides national leadership, technical assistance, expert 
consultation, and training to state and local health agencies in 
intervention, surveillance, evaluation, and communication or marketing 
activities related to implementing state programs, registries, and 
other surveillance systems associated with reducing and preventing 
cardiovascular disease outcomes; (3) provides national leadership and 
coordination of the agency-wide cardiovascular collaborative; (4) 
implements surveillance systems and conducts surveillance of outcomes 
and utilization of health care and prevention resources related to 
heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and other 
cardiovascular diseases to monitor trends and evaluate program impact 
on morbidity, mortality, risk factor improvement, cost, disability, and 
disparities; (5) conducts epidemiologic studies and disseminates 
findings to identify emerging risk factors with potential for 
prevention and control strategies; (6) conducts prevention research 
studies and disseminates findings to identify and evaluate the 
feasibility and effectiveness of potential prevention and control 
strategies in health care systems and at the community level; (7) 
identifies, implements, and evaluates programs to prevent and control 
heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, other 
cardiovascular disease outcomes, and disparities through the 
translation and communication of best practices in health care and risk 
factor prevention into widespread health systems policies and community 
changes; (8) collaborates with other

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cardiovascular health related activities at CDC, including the Lipid 
Standardization Program, within the National Center for Environmental 
Health/Division of Laboratory Sciences, and the Thrombosis Lab, within 
the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities/
Division of Hematologic Diseases; (9) maintains liaison and 
collaborative relationships with official, private, voluntary agencies, 
educational institutions, or other groups involved in the prevention 
and control of heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases 
or risk factors; (10) provides technical assistance and consultation to 
other nations and to the World Health Organization in the global 
prevention and control of cardiovascular disease.
    Office of the Director (CUCM1). (1) Establishes and interprets 
policies and determines program priorities; (2) provides leadership and 
guidance in program planning and development, program management, 
program evaluation, budget development, and division operations; (3) 
monitors progress toward achieving division objectives and assessing 
the impact of programs; (4) insures that division activities are 
coordinated with other components of CDC both within and outside the 
center, with Federal, state and local agencies, and related voluntary 
and professional organizations; (5) coordinates division responses to 
requests for technical assistance or information on primary and 
secondary heart disease and stroke prevention practices, behaviors and 
policies, including division activities and programs; (6) serves as the 
co-lead for the Healthy People 2010 heart disease and stroke objectives 
for the nation; (7) provides national leadership in coordinating and 
implementing activities to support a public health action plan to 
prevent heart disease and stroke; (8) develops and produces 
communications tools and public affairs strategies to meet the needs of 
division programs and mission; (9) develops health communication 
campaigns at the national and state levels; (10) guides the production 
and distribution of print, broadcast, and electronic materials for use 
in programs at the national and state levels; (11) provides leadership, 
consultation and technical assistance on health communication issues 
for heart disease and stroke prevention; (12) reports accomplishments, 
future directions, and resource requirements; (13) provides program 
management and administrative support services; (14) represents the 
division at official professional and scientific meetings.
    Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch (CUCMB). (1) Monitors the 
epidemiology of cardiovascular disease risk factors, behaviors, 
outcomes, costs, barriers, awareness, access to care, geographic 
variations and disparities; (2) prepares routine surveillance reports 
of national and state trends in cardiovascular disease risk factors, 
behaviors, outcomes, and disparities, which includes the mapping of 
geographic variations; (3) develops, designs, implements, and evaluates 
new cardiovascular disease registries and other surveillance systems 
that address gaps in existing CDC surveillance systems; (4) prepares 
epidemiologic and scientific papers for publication in medical and 
public health journals and for presentation to national public health 
and scientific conferences on surveillance and epidemiologic findings; 
(5) identifies, investigates, implements, and evaluates new 
surveillance methodologies and technologies that involve electronic 
data abstraction and transfer to State and national registries and 
spatial analysis; (6) proposes and serves as technical advisers and 
project officers for epidemiologic research projects that fill gaps in 
surveillance and intervention and investigates emerging risk factors 
that will lead to the prevention of cardiovascular disease and the 
elimination of disparities in cardiovascular disease; (7) serves as 
scientific and technical experts in cardiovascular disease epidemiology 
and surveillance methodology to state health departments or to advisory 
groups at the national/international level; (8) provides scientific 
leadership in the development, extension, and improvement of 
surveillance systems, epidemiologic strategies, and/or service to 
cardiovascular health programs; (9) facilitates integration of 
epidemiology and surveillance across the division.
    Applied Research and Evaluation Branch (CUCMC). (1) Develops a 
comprehensive applied research and translation agenda, including 
evaluation, research and health economic research; (2) plans, develops, 
and implements projects related to applied research, evaluation 
research, and health economics research; (3) prepares scientific papers 
for publication in public health media journals and for presentation at 
national and international conferences, meetings and seminars on 
applied research, evaluation research and health economics research; 
(4) synthesizes a body of best science and practice that can be applied 
to various public health settings; (5) prepares and disseminates 
products that translate applied research, evaluation research, and 
health economics science to state programs and other; (6) develops a 
comprehensive division evaluation plan addressing all facets of 
division activities, including state-based program evaluation, research 
evaluation, and evaluation training needs; (7) provides applied 
research, evaluation, and health economics expertise and technical 
assistance to the division, center, CDC, and national and international 
partners.
    Program Development and Services Branch (CUCMD). (1) Provides 
programmatic leadership and support for state-based heart disease and 
stroke prevention programs; (2) provides comprehensive technical advice 
and assistance in planning, developing and evaluating the state 
programs; (3) provides program policies and guidance outlining CDC's 
role and the national goals and objectives of the State Heart Disease 
and Stroke Prevention Program; (4) reviews and monitors the state 
cooperative agreements and other appropriate grantees; (5) serves as 
technical experts in the implementation of policy and environmental 
strategies for health promotion, primary and secondary prevention of 
heart disease and stroke for states, within CDC and with partners; (6) 
provides comprehensive training expertise, including distance learning, 
training seminars, meetings, state success documents, and other 
materials to promote the programs and assist state grantees with 
planning and implementation of a state-based program; (7) implements 
and monitors management information systems for state heart disease and 
stroke prevention programs to monitor the national progress toward 
achieving Health People 2010 and division goals; (8) obtains, analyzes, 
and disseminates, data from state-based heart disease and stroke 
prevention programs to develop operational strategies for translation 
of results into improved program practice; (9) provides leadership in 
the development of partnerships between state programs and 
organizations at the national and state level; (10) provides technical 
assistance to state programs on use of data and other basic areas of 
epidemiology; (11) develops systematic processes for providing state 
program guidance through determining and disseminating promising 
program intervention practices and providing opportunities for states 
to share information and tools for program improvement; (12) partners 
with national organizations that can assist states with priority 
activities; (13)

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provides leadership; and technical expertise, in women's cardiovascular 
health, health disparities and healthcare interventions for 
cardiovascular primary and secondary prevention programs as it relates 
to the Well-Integrated Screening and Evaluation for Women Across the 
National (WISEWOMAN) Program; (14) develops and implements CDC programs 
and research that impact heart disease and stroke risk factors in 
financially vulnerable, uninsured and underinsured women aged 40-64; 
(15) facilitates the integration of program services across the 
division.

    Dated: January 20, 2006.
William H. Gimson,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC).
[FR Doc. 06-857 Filed 1-30-06; 8:45 am]
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