[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 84 (Monday, May 2, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24491-24493]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-10503]


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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 76 FR 15984-15985, dated March 22, 2011) is 
amended to reflect the reorganization of the National Center for 
Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Office of Infectious Diseases, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as 
follows: Delete in its entirety the function statements for the 
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease (CVG) and the 
Office of the Director (CVG1) and insert the following:
    National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (CVG). 
The National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) 
prevents disease, disability, and death through immunization and by 
control of respiratory and related diseases. In carrying out its 
mission, NCIRD: (1) Provides leadership, expertise, and service in 
laboratory and epidemiological sciences, and in immunization program 
delivery; (2) conducts applied research on disease prevention and 
control; (3) translates research findings into public health policies 
and practices; (4) provides diagnostic and reference laboratory 
services to relevant partners; (5) conducts surveillance and research 
to determine disease distribution, determinants, and burden nationally 
and internationally; (6) responds to disease outbreaks domestically and 
abroad; (7) ensures that public health decisions are made objectively 
and based upon the highest quality of scientific data; (8) provides 
technical expertise, education, and training to domestic and 
international partners; (9) provides leadership to internal and 
external partners for establishing and maintaining immunization, and 
other prevention and control programs; (10) develops, implements, and 
evaluates domestic and international public health policies; (11) 
communicates information to increase awareness,

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knowledge, and understanding of public health issues domestically and 
internationally, and to promote effective immunization programs; (12) 
aligns the national center focus with the overall strategic goals of 
CDC; and (13) implements, coordinates, and evaluates programs across 
NCIRD, Office of Infectious Diseases (OID), and CDC to optimize public 
health impact.
    Office of the Director (CVG1). (1) Provides leadership, expertise, 
and service in laboratory and epidemiological sciences and in 
immunization program delivery; (2) provides diagnostic and reference 
laboratory services to relevant partnerships; (3) works with OID to 
ensure spending plans, budget planning, and budget execution are in 
line with the overall infectious disease strategies and priorities; (4) 
ensures that the NCIRD strategy is executed by the divisions and 
aligned with overall CDC goals; (5) co-develops execution strategies 
for the center with the division directors; (6) provides program and 
science quality oversight; (7) builds leadership at the division and 
branch levels; (8) evaluates the strategies, focus, and prioritization 
of the division research, program, and budget activities; (9) 
identifies and coordinates synergies between center and relevant 
partners; (10) ensures that policy development is consistent and 
appropriate; (11) facilitates research and program activities by 
providing leadership support; (12) proposes resource priorities 
throughout the budget cycle; (13) ensures scientific quality, ethics, 
and regulatory compliance; (14) fosters an integrated approach to 
research, program, and policy activities; (15) liaises with HHS and 
other domestic and international immunization and respiratory disease 
partners as well as with NCIRD divisions; (16) coordinates center's 
emergency response activities related to immunization issues and 
complex acute respiratory infectious disease emergencies; (17) applies 
communication science, media principles, and web design to support 
NCIRD and CDC's efforts to reduce morbidity and mortality caused by 
vaccine-preventable and respiratory diseases; ensuring that 
communication distributed by the center is timely, accurate, clear and 
relevant to intended audiences; (18) provides guidance for key 
scientific and laboratory services in the functional areas of 
extramural research (research and non-research), human studies 
oversight and review, regulatory affairs; activities in the area of 
space planning, advising, coordination and evaluation, safety 
management and coordination, and shared services in controlled 
correspondence, and programmatic services in the area of workforce and 
career development; (19) provides and coordinates center-wide 
administrative, management, and support services in the areas of fiscal 
management, personnel, travel, procurement, facility management, the 
Vaccine Management Improvement Project and other administrative 
services; and (20) manages the coordination of workforce development 
and succession planning activities and provide human capital 
management, planning and training consultation services.
    Office of Informatics (CVG12). (1) Manages all IT project costs, 
schedules, performances, and risks; (2) provides expertise in leading 
application development techniques in information science and 
technology to affect the best use of resources; (3) performs technical 
evaluation and/or integrated baseline reviews of all information 
systems' products and services prior to procurement to ensure software 
purchases align with OID strategy; (4) provides access to quality data 
in support of programmatic data analysis; (5) coordinates all 
enterprise-wide IT security policies and procedures with the Office of 
the Chief Information Security Officer; (6) ensures operations are in 
accordance with CDC Capital Planning and Investment Control guidelines; 
(7) ensures adherence to CDC enterprise architecture guidelines and 
standards; (8) consults with users to determine IT needs and to develop 
strategic and action plans; and (9) participates in the evolution, 
identification, development, or adoption of appropriate informatics 
standards in conjunction with the OID.
    Office of Policy (CVG13). (1) Serves as liaison with CDC/OD and 
other Centers/Institutes/Offices (CIO) policy offices, other government 
agencies, and external partners on policy, program, legislative, and 
budgetary issues related to NCIRD; (2) leads annual NCIRD budget 
formulation and development of appropriations materials; (3) provides 
expertise and guidance for strategic planning and performance 
measurement; (4) oversees and coordinates NCIRD accountability 
activities, including Government Accountability Office and Inspector 
General studies, audits and reviews; (5) coordinates NCIRD OMB 
Paperwork Reduction Act clearances for non-immunization waiver 
activities; (6) conducts legislative monitoring and analysis; (7) 
provides NCIRD with leadership and advice in the management of 
Congressional and governmental relations; (8) serves as liaison to the 
CDC Office of Women's Health Committee and the CDC/ATSDR Minority 
Initiatives Coordinating Committee; (9) supports the NCIRD divisions 
with developing appropriate policy capacity; and (10) manages cross-
cutting policy issues within NCIRD and, as appropriate, with other CIO 
and OD offices within CDC.
    Office of Laboratory Science (CVG14). (1) Provides leadership, 
expertise and service in laboratory science; (2) represents NCIRD's 
interests in cross-cutting laboratory services in OID which include, 
but are not limited to, laboratory information systems, quality 
management systems and bioinformatics; (3) ensures a safe working 
environment in NCIRD laboratories; (4) collaborates effectively with 
other centers and offices in carrying out its functions; and (5) 
manages CDC's intellectual property (e.g., patents, trademarks, 
copyrights) and promotes the transfer of new technology from CDC 
research to the private sector to facilitate and enhance the 
development of diagnostic products, vaccines, and products to improve 
occupational safety.
    Office of Health Communications Science (CVG15). (1) Support 
NCIRD's mission through the planning, development, implementation and 
evaluation of science-based health communication activities and 
programs; (2) applies communication science, media principles, and web 
design to support NCIRD and CDC's efforts to reduce morbidity and 
mortality caused by vaccine-preventable and respiratory diseases; (3) 
ensures that communication distributed by the center is timely, 
accurate, clear and relevant to intended audiences; (4) conducts 
projects that translate scientific and medical information into 
messages for a variety of audiences using an array of media/formats; 
(5) improves understanding of vaccine benefits and risks among 
partners, health care providers and public audiences; (6) improves 
understanding among specialized audiences such as policy-makers, public 
health officials nationally and internally of the center's work; (7) 
supports public health partners via technical assistance and other 
methods; (8) demonstrates best practices in writing using plain 
language and health literacy principles, creating culturally 
appropriate materials; and (9) coordinates CDC's pandemic influenza 
communication preparedness activities.
    Office of Administrative Services (CVG16). (1) Provides direct and 
daily management and execution of domestic

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travel processing for federal employees, Commissioned Corps and all 
CDC-invited guests; (2) provides direct management and execution of the 
administrative aspects of human resources across NCIRD, including 
training, and administration of policies and guidelines developed by 
Office of Human Resources, Atlanta Operations Center, Department of 
Health and Human Services, CDC Ethics Office, Financial Management 
Office, Office of Commissioned Corps Personnel, Center for Global 
Health, Office of Personnel Management, and Procurement and Grants 
Office; (3) provides direct management and execution of the 
coordination of office facilities, and supplies technical guidance and 
expertise regarding occupancy and facilities management to emergency 
situations; (4) provides direct and daily management and execution of 
the distribution, accountability and maintenance of CDC property and 
equipment; (5) provides direct management and execution of procurement 
requisitions, and contracts and performs administrative tasks related 
to initiating, processing and maintaining interagency agreements; (6) 
provides direct management and execution of the creation, organization, 
access, maintenance and disposition of CDC records, and of the 
establishment of policies and procedures coordinating a NCIRD response 
to Freedom of Information Act requests; and (7) provides direct 
management and execution of the coordination of logistics for Federal 
government committee meetings and NCIRD conferences.
    Office of Science and Integrated Programs (CVG17). (1) Links 
strategies and priorities of the primarily programmatic-focused NCIRD 
divisions with those of primarily disease-based divisions; (2) 
facilitates development and ongoing implementation of integrated 
infectious respiratory disease (including influenza) surveillance, 
research, and prevention and control activities across the divisions, 
both domestically and globally, including supporting implementation of 
NCIRD's respiratory diseases strategic prevention priorities; (3) 
interfaces with other CDC CIOs working in the area of respiratory 
diseases; (4) coordinates and facilitates the center's overall 
respiratory and vaccine preventable disease scientific/research agenda; 
(5) assumes responsibility for the protection of human research 
subjects, scientific review, clearance of manuscripts and other written 
materials; (6) provides planning and coordination of overall 
surveillance strategies, preparedness, response, and prevention 
effectiveness related to a center-wide public health scientific agenda 
and in quantifying how programs and activities promote cost-effective 
and high impact prevention strategies with respect to immunization and 
other vaccine preventable disease programs; (7) provides leadership 
(agency and center-wide) for vaccine preventable and respiratory 
disease surveillance to include guidance and coordination of NCIRD 
surveillance activities and systems, as well as leadership on issues 
related to internal and external integration of CDC surveillance 
activities; (8) coordinates, facilitates and integrates domestic and 
international respiratory and vaccine preventable disease surveillance 
activities through existing methods while developing new approaches, 
tools and analyses for these activities; (9) fosters a 
multidisciplinary approach to epidemiology, statistics, informatics, 
laboratory methods and evaluation; (10) facilitates cross-cutting 
health services research and economic analyses in the area of vaccine 
preventable and respiratory diseases and immunization programs and 
their impact on and relationships to health insurance reform; (11) 
provides leadership in developing a center-wide prevention 
effectiveness priority agenda and facilitates the development and 
ongoing implementation of integrated modeling activities; (12) provides 
leadership in facilitating the development and implementation of the 
center's overarching influenza surveillance, research, and prevention 
strategy (pandemic and seasonal); and (13) provides leadership across 
the divisions with respect to linking preparedness and response 
elements to the overall influenza prevention and control strategy, and 
interfaces with other parts of CDC with respect to this strategy.

    Dated: April 19, 2011.
James D. Seligman,
Acting Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2011-10503 Filed 4-29-11; 8:45 am]
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