[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 150 (Thursday, August 4, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47189-47190]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-19739]


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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 34075, dated June 10, 2011) is amended 
to reflect the establishment of the Office of Minority Health and 
Health Equity (CAW), Office of the Director (CA), Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (C). This will align this office as a direct 
report to the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC), pursuant to passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable 
Care Act (Pub. L. 111-148).
    I. Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as 
follows:
    Under Part C, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (C), 
Office of the Director (CA), add the following organizational unit 
after the Office of Diversity Management and Equal Employment 
Opportunity (CAV):
    Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (CAW): The mission of 
the Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE) is to 
accelerate CDC's health impact in the U.S population and to eliminate 
health disparities for vulnerable populations as defined by race/
ethnicity, socio-economic status, geography, gender, age, disability 
status, risk status related to sex and gender, and among other 
populations that are identified as at-risk for health disparities. As 
the Office of the Director's organizational focus for eliminating 
health disparities, OMHHE: (1) Provides leadership for CDC-wide 
policies, strategies, action planning, implementation and evaluation to 
eliminate health disparities; (2) coordinates CDC's response to 
Presidential Executive Orders, Congressional mandates, Secretarial and 
HHS/ASH/OPHS Initiatives, and provides timely performance reports on 
minority health and health equity as required; (3) monitors and reports 
on the health status of vulnerable populations and the effectiveness of 
health protection programs; (4) evaluates the impact of policies and 
programs to achieve health disparities elimination; (5) supports 
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external partnerships to advance the science, practice and workforce 
for eliminating health disparities inside/outside CDC; (6) maintains 
critical linkages with federal partners including the Office of the 
Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, and represents CDC 
on related scientific and policy committees; (7) establishes external 
advisory capacity and internal advisory and action capacity; (8) 
improves support of efforts to improve minority health and achieve 
health equity in the U.S. by collaborating with CDC's National Centers 
and other entities; (9) synthesizes, disseminates, and encourages use 
of scientific evidence regarding effective interventions to achieve 
health disparities elimination outcomes; (10) analyzes trends in and 
determinants of health disparities to provide decision support to CDC's 
Executive Leadership in allocating CDC resources to agency-wide 
programs for surveillance, research, intervention and evaluation; (11) 
positions CDC to address relevant provisions in the 2010 Patient 
Protection and Affordable Care Act that address health disparities; 
(12) strengthens CDC's global health work to achieve equity; (13) 
supports CDC's response to public health emergencies in vulnerable 
populations; and (14) ensures administrative effectiveness and 
efficiency of agency-wide efforts to achieve health equity.
    II. Delegation of Authority: All delegations and redelegations of 
authority made to officials and employees of affected organizational 
components will continue in them or their successors pending further 
redelegation, provided they are consistent with this reorganization.

    Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3101.

    Dated: July 27, 2011.
Carlton Duncan,
Acting Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2011-19739 Filed 8-3-11; 8:45 am]
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