[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 194 (Thursday, October 6, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62083-62085]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-25862]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of 
Authority

    Part N, National Institutes of Health (NIH), of the Statement of 
Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority for the 
Department of Health and Human Services (40 FR 22859, May 27, 1975, as 
amended most recently at 66 FR 6617, January 22, 2001, and redesignated 
from Part HN as Part N at 60 FR 56605, November 9, 1995), is amended as 
set forth below to reflect organizational changes in the National 
Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD).
    Section N-B, Organization and Functions, is amended as follows: 
Immediately after the paragraph headed ``National Institute of Minority 
Health and Health Disparities'' (NE, formerly HNE), insert the 
following:
    Office of the Director (OD) (NE 1 formerly HNE 1). Determines and 
provides leadership to the Institute's programs, plans, and policies; 
Provides leadership for the NIH minority health and health disparities 
research and activities including the implementation of the Minority 
Health and Health Disparities Research and Education Act (Pub. L. 106-
525) and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. 111-
148) and other relevant public laws as they relate to the NIMHD 
mission; Directs an integrated system of coordination for the NIH 
health disparities research program; Directs the Institute's 
development and coordination of minority health and health disparities 
research programs, activities, and strategic partnerships with the NIH 
Institutes and Centers, NIH Office of the Director, Federal agencies, 
State, local, tribal, and regional public health agencies and private 
entities; Provides leadership for the NIH health disparities strategic 
plan and budget; Leads the management, communications, legislation, 
strategic planning, science policy and ethics activities for the 
Institute; and Provides leadership for developing and revising the 
national definition for health disparity population in consultation 
with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
    Office of Extramural Research Administration (OERA) (NE 16, 
formerly HNE 16). Responsible for the administration of the Institute's 
extramural research dealing with peer review activities, grants 
management, extramural grants policy, and ethics issues (patient 
rights, animal rights, financial conflict of interest, etc.); 
Facilitates Institute-wide communication and coordination regarding 
extramural policy, planning, and analysis; Provides advice and guidance 
to the Director regarding the Institute's peer and objective review 
processes as well as NIH extramural programs, policies and procedures; 
Recommends mechanisms to be used or develops mechanisms to accomplish 
program objectives; Provides leadership to program, review, and grants 
management staff in writing solicitations for grants and contracts and 
reviews funding opportunity announcements for clearance; Develops, 
implements, and manages integrated policies and procedures affecting 
all NIMHD extramural activities, and assures appropriate training, 
information dissemination, and systems for NIMHD extramural staff and 
the extramural research community; Interprets, advises, and ensures 
NIMHD staff adherence to and understanding of impact of NIH and 
Department of Health and Human Services extramural

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policies; Represents the Institute as liaison for NIH Guide to Grants 
and Contracts and the NIH Early Notification System (ENS); and 
Administers the Public Health Service Guidelines on Misconduct in 
Science and manages the Institute's Confidentiality Certificate program 
and the Grant Appeals Process.
    Office of Administrative Management (OAM) (NE 17, formerly HNE 17). 
Directs, coordinates, and conducts administrative activities of the 
Institute including personnel and staffing, purchase and maintenance of 
equipment and supplies, and acquisition and management of space; 
Performs analytical studies related to the administrative organization, 
processes and procedures of the Institute and establishes effective 
administrative controls; Designs and conducts management analyses, 
studies and surveys including manpower utilization, workload 
measurement, work simplification, etc., for all parts of the Institute; 
Develops and/or provides advice on the development and implementation 
of general administrative policies, procedures and guidelines 
throughout the Institute; Interprets, analyzes, and makes 
recommendations concerning delegations and re-delegations of program 
and administrative authorities and develops appropriate delegating 
documents; Supervises, directs, manages, and coordinates the planning 
and execution of the Institute's budget process and financial 
management operations, which includes providing guidance to Institute 
leadership and staff on budget preparation and management; Oversees the 
records management activities of the Institute; Coordinates the 
Institute's committee management functions; and Oversees and 
coordinates the Institute's information technology (IT) activities.
    Office of Communications and Public Liaison (OCPL) (NE 18, formerly 
HNE 18). Serves as the focal point for the Institute's communications, 
public affairs, media relations, and public liaison activities; 
Develops and conducts a comprehensive communications program utilizing 
various communications vehicles to interpret, develop, test, and 
disseminate the programs, policies, goals and research accomplishments 
supported and carried out by the NIMHD to diverse audiences including 
the public, the media, the biomedical community, healthcare providers, 
and specialized groups; Develops short- and long-term communications 
policies, goals, objectives, and strategies in support of the mission 
and priorities of the Institute; Manages the Institute's Web site 
including content, policies, standards, guidelines, and a central Web-
based resource for information and research findings on minority health 
and health disparities; Coordinates NIH communications activities 
related to minority health and health disparities in collaboration with 
the NIH Institutes and Centers; Coordinates and manages the Institute's 
intranet content; Manages correspondence control, and clearance 
services for the Institute; Coordinates and collaborates with other 
organizational components on health communications research activities.
    Office of Strategic Planning, Legislation, and Scientific Policy 
(OSPLSP) (NE 19, formerly HNE 19). Serves as the focal point for 
NIMHD's science policy, strategic planning and evaluation activities; 
Provides leadership for the development of strategic plans, policies, 
goals, objectives, and techniques in support of the Institute's 
mission; Coordinates, develops, and implements an ongoing strategic 
planning process for the Institute and ensures that the Institute has a 
long-range, sustainable vision and program plan for carrying out its 
mandates; Leads the Institute's efforts to plan, coordinate, review, 
and evaluate research and other activities on minority health and 
health disparities conducted or supported by the NIH Institutes and 
Centers, consistent with the NIMHD's authorizing statute; Provides 
leadership for the development of an integrated and effective NIH 
health disparities strategic plan and budget consistent with the 
authorizing statute; Provides leadership for the legislative activities 
of the Institute, which includes analyzing and tracking legislation 
relevant to the mission of the Institute, and makes recommendations for 
legislative proposals; and Conducts and coordinates policy analysis 
related to various aspects of minority health and health disparities.
    Division of Scientific Programs (DSP) (NE 3, formerly, HNE 3). 
Serves as the focal point for planning, directing, implementing and 
managing the Institute's extramural research programs, including its 
legislatively mandated extramural research programs and other research, 
research training, research capacity building, career development, and 
community-based participatory research initiatives; Manages a diverse 
portfolio of special projects with respect to minority health 
conditions and other populations with health disparities; and 
Determines program priorities and recommends funding strategies to 
achieve program goals.
    Division of Data Management and Scientific Reporting (DDMSR) (NE 4, 
formerly, HNE 4). Provides leadership for knowledge management and 
scientific reporting; Maintains a Health Disparities Information (HDI) 
database to facilitate the collection, interpretation, and analysis of 
data, education, dissemination, and communication of information to 
various audiences in collaboration with other Institute organizational 
components; Collaborates with the NIMHD OSPLSP to analyze and 
synthesize data on minority health and health disparities research 
conducted and supported by the NIH Institutes and Centers; Coordinates 
reporting requests on the Institute and NIH activities on minority 
health and health disparities research; Provides epidemiological and 
statistical expertise for the Institute on planning, designing, and 
implementing research studies, and to support research programs; 
Coordinates data-collection activities and reporting on minority health 
and health disparities including the Institute's implementation of 
relevant policies, regulations, and laws; Provides advice to the 
Institute senior management and program officials on data collection 
standards and guidelines; Coordinates Institute activities under the 
Privacy Act; and Administers the Institute's Freedom of Information Act 
activities.
    Division of Intramural Research (OIR) (NE 5, formerly, HNE 5). 
Provides leadership for the Institute's intramural research program to 
prevent, diagnose, treat and understand diseases and conditions that 
disproportionately affect health disparity populations ; Plans, 
develops, and conducts innovative transdisciplinary research focusing 
on the linkage between biological and nonbiological determinants of 
health in health disparity populations to include basic, behavioral, 
social sciences and clinical research; Develops, coordinates and 
implements training and career development programs in minority health 
and health disparities research; Collaborates with and coordinates 
intramural research on minority health and health disparities conducted 
by the NIH Institutes and Centers; Integrates new research into the 
Institute's program structure; and Provides advice to the Institute 
Director and staff on matters of scientific interest to the Institute.
    Delegations of Authority Statement: All delegations and 
redelegations of authority to officers and employees of NIH that were 
in effect immediately prior to the effective date of this 
reorganization and are consistent with

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this reorganization shall continue in effect, pending further 
redelegation.

    Dated: August 8, 2011.
Francis S. Collins,
Director, National Institutes of Health.
[FR Doc. 2011-25862 Filed 10-5-11; 8:45 am]
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