[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 199 (Friday, October 14, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 63926]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-26589]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Board of Scientific Counselors, Office of Infectious Diseases 
(BSC, OID)

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC), announces the following meeting of the aforementioned 
committee:

    Time and Date: 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., November 9, 2011.
    Place: CDC, Global Communications Center, 1600 Clifton Road, 
NE., Building 19, Auditorium B3, Atlanta, Georgia 30333.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
    Purpose: The BSC, OID, provides advice and guidance to the 
Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services; the Director, 
CDC; the Director, OID; and the Directors of the National Center for 
Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, the National Center for 
Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, and the National Center 
for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC, in the 
following areas: strategies, goals, and priorities for programs; 
research within the national centers; and overall strategic 
direction and focus of OID and the national centers.
    Matters To Be Discussed: The meeting will include brief updates 
from OID and the three infectious disease national centers, a report 
from the OID/BSC Food Safety Modernization Act working group, and 
presentation of the recently released strategic framework for CDC's 
infectious disease programs. The main topic of the meeting will 
include a focused discussion, with breakout groups, on the changing 
roles and responsibilities for public health infectious disease 
laboratories and the challenges and opportunities related to new 
diagnostics, other technologic advances, and a changing economic 
environment.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Person for More Information: Robin Moseley, M.A.T., 
Designated Federal Officer, OID, CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., 
Mailstop D10, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, Telephone: (404) 639-4461.
    The Director, Management Analysis and Services Office has been 
delegated the authority to sign Federal Register notices pertaining 
to announcements of meetings and other committee management 
activities, for both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

    Dated: October 6, 2011.
Catherine Ramadei,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2011-26589 Filed 10-13-11; 8:45 am]
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