[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 18 (Thursday, January 29, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 5162]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-1867]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary


Notice of Meeting: Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, 
Health, and Society

    Pursuant to Public Law 92-463, notice is hereby given of the 
eighteenth meeting of the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, 
Health, and Society (SACGHS), U.S. Public Health Service. The meeting 
will be held from 10 a.m. to approximately 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 
12, 2009, and 8:30 a.m. to approximately 3 p.m. on Friday, March 13, 
2009, at the Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., 
Washington, DC 20201. The meeting will be open to the public with 
attendance limited to space available. The meeting also will be Web 
cast.
    At this meeting, the Committee will begin to explore issues related 
to genetics and the future of the health care system with the first in 
a series of roundtables focusing on perspectives of stakeholders in the 
payer community. Other agenda items include a session on developments 
related to informed consent for genomic data sharing, discussion of the 
Committee's next steps to address concerns related to consumer-
initiated genomic services, and updates on Department of Health and 
Human Services and agency priorities.
    As always, the Committee welcomes hearing from anyone wishing to 
provide public comment on any issue related to genetics, health and 
society. Individuals who would like to provide public comment should 
notify the SACGHS Executive Secretary, Ms. Sarah Carr, by telephone at 
301-496-9838 or e-mail at [email protected]. The SACGHS office is 
located at 6705 Rockledge Drive, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20892. Anyone 
planning to attend the meeting, who is in need of special assistance, 
such as sign language interpretation or other reasonable 
accommodations, is also asked to contact the Executive Secretary.
    Under authority of 42 U.S.C. 217a, Section 222 of the Public Health 
Service Act, as amended, the Department of Health and Human Services 
established SACGHS to serve as a public forum for deliberations on the 
broad range of human health and societal issues raised by the 
development and use of genetic and genomic technologies and, as 
warranted, to provide advice on these issues. The draft meeting agenda 
and other information about SACGHS, including information about access 
to the Web cast, will be available at the following Web site: http://oba.od.nih.gov/SACGHS/sacghs_home.html.

    Dated: January 22, 2009.
Jennifer Spaeth,
Director, NIH Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy.
[FR Doc. E9-1867 Filed 1-28-09; 8:45 am]
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