[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 3, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24886-24887]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-10639]


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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 Center for Global Health, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as 
follows:
    After the title and functional statement for the Division of Public 
Health Systems and Workforce Development (CWF), delete in their 
entirety the remaining titles and functional statements for the 
Division of Public Health Systems and Workforce Development (CWF) and 
insert the following:
    Office of the Director (CWF1). (1) Provides leadership, overall 
direction, and evaluation for the division; (2) formulates and 
implements CDC's strategy for developing global public health capacity 
in applied epidemiology, public health systems, laboratory operations 
and management, and leadership; (3) provides leadership and guidance on 
policy, program planning, program management, and operations; (4) 
plans, allocates, and monitors resources; (5) provides leadership in 
assisting national ministries of health, international agencies, and 
non-governmental organizations in the delivery of epidemiologic 
services and the development of international epidemiologic networks; 
(6) liaises with other CDC organizations, other Federal agencies, 
national ministries of health, and international organizations; and (7) 
provides consultations with partners and stakeholders, including 
nongovernmental organizations and the private sector, on program 
development and overall public health systems and sub-systems.
    Field and Applied Epidemiology Training Programs Branch (CWFD). (1) 
Plans, directs, supports, implements, and coordinates field 
epidemiology and laboratory training programs (FE(L)TP), Data for 
Decision Making Projects, operational and implementation research 
projects, and other partnerships with ministries of health; (2) assists 
partners in assessing their needs for workforce strengthening and 
development; (3) with partners, designs and conducts evidence-based 
instruction in public health disciplines needed to strengthen their 
public health systems, including instructional design, epidemiology, 
surveillance, laboratory operations and management, communications, and 
economic evaluation; (4) provides leadership and expertise in assisting 
national ministries of health to utilize trained public health workers 
for developing health policy, and implementing and evaluating health 
programs; (5) assigns and manages expert consultants as long-term, in-
country advisors to ministry of health programs; (6) collaborates 
within CDC and with other Federal agencies, and with national and 
international organizations in support of partner programs; (7) 
provides consultation to ministries of health in the development of 
surveillance systems (e.g., communicable and non-communicable disease 
surveillance, injury, chronic diseases, etc.); (8) develops and 
evaluates competency-based training materials for the FETP and similar 
programs for use of the division and its partners; (9) collaborates 
within CDC and with national or international organizations in the 
development of competency-based training materials, evaluation of 
training, and design of surveillance systems needed to accomplish the 
mission; (10) creates and maintains division-wide computer-based and 
distance-based learning methods, and develops the capacity of partners 
to create, evaluate, and share their own; (11) works closely and 
coordinates with the Public Health Systems Strengthening Branch in 
areas of assessment, workforce development to meet system needs; 
laboratory systems, etc.; and (12) maintains a divisional training 
material library and Web site.
    Public Health Systems Strengthening Branch (CWFE). (1) Plans, 
directs, supports, implements, and coordinates public health systems 
development, operational and implementation research projects, and 
other partnerships with ministries of health related to systems 
strengthening; (2) assists partners in assessing their needs for health 
systems strengthening, focusing on public health systems development 
issues; (3) supports partner ministries of health's system 
strengthening efforts through provision of technical assistance, 
including facilitating provision of assistance from relevant subject 
matter expert programs across the agency, to ensure that ministries 
have access to the technical resources they need to fully evaluate 
critical systems and programs; (4)

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improves the management and functionality of public health laboratories 
in partner countries by supporting laboratory systems quality 
improvement, biosafety, and implementation of international laboratory 
standards and guidelines; (5) develops models for continuous tracking 
and improvement of critical outputs and outcomes from the programs 
around the world that the division supports (monitoring and evaluating 
function); (6) implements and coordinates CDC's support to WHO'S 
Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response strategy and directly 
supports the implementation of the International Health Regulations at 
the country level; (7) enhances the skills, knowledge, and capacity of 
the human resources for surveillance by merging those efforts with IT 
solutions that allow the surveillance workforce to function at a high 
level of timeliness and reliability; (8) works with partner countries 
to establish human resource information systems to better track the 
public health workforce within ministries of health; (9) mobilizes 
expertise from across the agency and from partners throughout the USG 
and internationally to provide technical assistance for countries 
interested in building their own dedicated public health institutions 
(``national CDCs''); (10) plans, directs, supports, implements, and 
coordinates public health leadership and management development and 
organizational excellence efforts; (11) provides leadership and 
technical assistance for reconstruction and stabilization efforts aimed 
at rebuilding or strengthening severely disrupted public health systems 
in countries in crisis or emerging from crisis (``fragile states''); 
and (12) coordinates and works closely with the Field and Applied 
Epidemiology Training Programs Branch in areas of assessments and 
workforce development to meet system needs and overall strategies.
    Delete in its entirety the function statement for the Office of the 
Director (CWJ1), Division of Global Disease Detection and Emergency 
Response (CWJ), and insert the following:
    Office of the Director (CWJ1). (1) Provides leadership, oversight, 
evaluation and overall direction and management for the activities of 
the division; (2) develops the division overall strategy and the 
division policies on planning, evaluation, management, and operations; 
(3) plans, allocates, and monitors resources; (4) provides liaison with 
other CDC organizations, other Federal agencies, national ministries of 
health, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, 
private sector, and others that CDC cooperates with in global health 
programs and activities; (5) promotes high standards in science and 
ethics among CDC's international activities; (6) maintains staff in the 
CDC Emergency Operations Center to manage, direct, coordinate and 
evaluate biosurveillance data from domestic and international networks 
and serve as a central focus for global outbreak and incident response 
activities; and (7) maintains and supports the Health Systems 
Reconstruction Office in its efforts to coordinate the implementation 
of training/capacity building initiatives within Haiti and other 
impacted countries.
    Delete in its entirety item (8) of the functional statement for the 
Global Disease Detection Branch (CWJB). Delete item (2) and insert the 
following: (2) provides program support, resources and technical 
assistance to the Global Disease Detection (GDD) Centers around the 
world;
    Delete items (3), (4), (6), and (7) of the functional statement for 
the Global Health Security Branch (CWJC) and insert the following 
accordingly: (3) provides support and coordination at HHS/OGHA 
regarding the development of policies and priorities on international 
influenza; (4) serves as liaison with HHS and technical agency (CDC, 
NIH, FDA) representatives for international pandemic preparedness 
related to budget formulation, program development, strategic planning, 
and global health security policy development; (6) provides technical 
assistance through training, and capacity building in supporting 
efforts to reduce the public health threat from chemical, biological, 
and nuclear disasters that are either natural or man-made; (7) provides 
liaison with the DoS Biosecurity Engagement Program and DoD Defense 
Threat Reduction Agency to coordinate on global biological threat 
reduction;

    Dated: April 19, 2011.
James D. Seligman,
Acting Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2011-10639 Filed 5-2-11; 8:45 am]
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