[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 203 (Thursday, October 22, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 54589]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-25307]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Request for Comment: National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine Announcement of Strategic Planning Background
Papers
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
(NCCAM) is developing its third strategic plan and invites the public
to provide comments on three background papers which will support the
development of this plan. The papers will cover three topics: Mission,
priority setting, and communications and decisionmaking. They will be
publicly available through the NCCAM Web site at from on or about
October 19 through November 19, 2009. The public is invited to provide
comments through the NCCAM Web site.
Background: The National Center for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine (NCCAM) was established in 1998 with the mission of exploring
complementary and alternative healing practices in the context of
rigorous science, training CAM researchers, and disseminating
authoritative information to the public and professionals.
To date, NCCAM's efforts to rigorously study CAM, to train CAM
researchers, and to communicate with the public and professionals, have
been guided by NCCAM's previous strategic plans, located on the NCCAM
Web site at http://nccam.nih.gov/about/plans.
The public is invited to review the background papers and provide
comments from October 15 through November 15, 2009. The papers may be
viewed at http://nccam.nih.gov/.
Request For Comments: The public is invited to provide comments on
the three background papers that will support the development of
NCCAM's third strategic plan. Comments may be provided through the
NCCAM Web site at http://nccam.nih.gov.
For Further Information: To request more information, visit the
NCCAM Web site at http://nccam.nih.gov, call 1-888-644-6226, or e-mail
<[email protected]
Comments Due Date: Comments regarding the draft of NCCAM's
strategic plan are best assured of having their full effect if received
by November 19, 2009.
Dated: October 13, 2009.
Jack Killen,
Deputy Director, National Center for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine, National Institutes of Health.
[FR Doc. E9-25307 Filed 10-21-09; 8:45 am]
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