[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 26 (Thursday, February 8, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5977-5978]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-2125]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services; 
Notice of Meeting

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), notice is hereby given that the 
following committee will convene its fifty-fifth meeting.

    Name: National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human 
Services.
    Dates and Times: February 28, 2007, 9 a.m.-4:15 p.m., March 1, 
2007, 9 a.m.-4:15 p.m., March 2, 2007, 9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
    Place: The Sofitel Lafayette Square, 806 15th Street NW., 
Washington, DC 20005, Phone: 202-730-8800.
    Status: The meeting will be open to the public.
    Purpose: The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and 
Human Services provides advice and recommendations to the Secretary 
with respect to the delivery, research, development and 
administration of health and human services in rural areas.
    Agenda: Wednesday morning, February 28, at 9 a.m., the meeting 
will be called to order by the Chairperson of the Committee, the 
Honorable David Beasley. Elizabeth M. Duke, Administrator of the 
Health Resources and Services Administration, has been invited to 
give opening remarks. The first presentation is titled Rural 
America: Then, Now and in the Future. The speakers will be John 
Cromartie and Carol Jones, Economic Research Service, U.S. 
Department of Agriculture. Following this session will be three 
panels on rural health and human services issues. The first will be 
a rural health panel with Becky Slifkin of the North Carolina Rural 
Health Research and Policy Analysis Center at the University of 
North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Gary Hart of the WWAMI Rural Health 
Research Center at the University of Washington; and Andy Coburn of 
the Maine Rural Health Research Center at the University of Southern 
Maine. The second will be a rural health panel with the following 
speakers: Julie Schoenman of the National Opinion Research Center at 
the University of Chicago; Michelle Casey of the

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Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center at the University of 
Minnesota; and Keith Mueller of the Rural Policy Research Institute. 
The final panel of the day will be a rural human services panel with 
Robert Gibbs of the Economic Research Service at the U.S. Department 
of Agriculture; Dennis Dudley with the U. S. Administration on 
Aging; and Brian Dabson of the Poverty Center at the Rural Policy 
Research Institute. The Wednesday meeting will close at 4:15 p.m.
    Thursday morning, March 1, at 9 a.m., the Committee will open 
with a discussion on Wednesday's sessions. Immediately following, 
the Committee Chair will lead a discussion of the topics for the 
2008 Report to the Secretary and assign Subcommittees. The first 
presentation of the day will be on Rural Policy Moving Forward by 
Mike O' Grady, Senior Fellow with the National Opinion Research 
Center. This will be followed by a presentation on the Commonwealth 
Fund Activity by Mary Wakefield, Director of the Center for Rural 
Health at the University of North Dakota. After lunch the Committee 
will have discussion on the day's presentations. The formal 
Committee meeting for Thursday will close at 2:30 p.m. The 
Subcommittees will meet from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
    The final session will be convened Friday morning, March 2, at 9 
a.m. The Committee will receive reports from the Subcommittee 
discussions on Thursday, draft the letter to the Secretary, and 
discuss the June meeting. The meeting will be adjourned at 10:30 
a.m.
    For Further Information Contact: Anyone requiring information 
regarding the Committee should contact Tom Morris, M.P.A., Executive 
Secretary, National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human 
Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Parklawn 
Building, Room 9A-55, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, 
Telephone (301) 443-0835, Fax (301) 443-2803.
    Persons interested in attending any portion of the meeting 
should contact Michele Pray-Gibson, Office of Rural Health Policy 
(ORHP), Telephone (301) 443-0835. The Committee meeting agenda will 
be posted on ORHP's Web site http://www.ruralhealth.hrsa.gov.

    Dated: February 2, 2007.
Caroline Lewis,
Acting Associate Administrator for Administration and Financial 
Management.
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