[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 19 (Monday, January 30, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4562-4563]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-1817]


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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 50223-24, dated August 12, 2011) is 
amended to reflect the reorganization of National Center for HIV/AIDS, 
Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as 
follows:
    After the title and functional statements for the Division of Viral 
Hepatitis (CVJH), insert the following:
    Division of Adolescent and School Health (CVJJ). (1) In cooperation 
with other CDC components, administers programs addressing priority 
sexual health risks and related health behaviors among youth; (2) 
identifies and monitors priority sexual health risks and related health 
behaviors among youth that result in the transmission of HIV/AIDS, 
other sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy; (3) 
provides consultation, training, educational, and other technical 
services to assist state, territorial, and local education and health 
departments, tribal governments, national nongovernmental 
organizations, and other societal institutions to implement and 
evaluate policy, systems, and environmental changes and interventions 
to reduce priority sexual health risks among youth; (4) in coordination 
with other CDC components, supports international, national, state, 
tribal, and local school-based surveillance systems to monitor priority 
health risk behaviors and health outcomes among youth, along with the 
policies, programs, and practices schools implement to address them; 
(5) conducts evaluation research to expand knowledge of the 
determinants of priority health risk behaviors among youth and to 
identify effective policies and practices that schools and other 
societal institutions can implement to reduce priority health risks 
among youth; (6) develops and disseminates guidelines and tools to help 
schools and other societal institutions apply research synthesis 
findings to reduce priority health risks among youth; (7) provides 
leadership and consultation on the use of a coordinated approach to 
school health; (8) provides leadership and consultation to other 
divisions within NCHHSTP and CDC on how schools work and how to foster 
effective collaboration between public health and education 
departments; (9) provides information to the scientific community and 
the general public through publications and presentations; and (10) in 
accomplishing the functions listed above, collaborates with other 
components of CDC and HHS; the U.S. Department of Education and other 
federal agencies; national professional, voluntary, and philanthropic 
organizations; international agencies; and other societal institutions 
as appropriate.
    Office of the Director (CVJJ1). (1) Plans, directs, and evaluates 
the activities of the division; (2) provides national leadership and 
guidance in policy formulation and program planning and development to 
reduce sexual health risks among youth and improve school health 
programs, policies, and practices; (3) provides leadership and guidance 
for program management and operations; (4) provides leadership in 
coordinating activities between the division and other NCHHSTP 
divisions in addressing priority sexual health risks among adolescents; 
(5) promotes collaboration with other NCHHSTP divisions and other 
governmental and non-governmental organizations for the development of 
policies and evaluation methods; (6) coordinates division responses to 
inquiries from national and local communications media; (7) implements 
science and evidence-based communication programs, initiatives, and 
strategies that target state and local health and education partners, 
media, national organizations, and consumers; (8) systematically 
translates, promotes, and disseminates science-based messages through 
multiple communication products and channels; (9) implements effective 
internal communication strategies targeting the Division of Adolescent 
and School Health (DASH) and other CDC staff; (10) oversees creation, 
production, promotion, and dissemination of materials designed for use 
by the media, partners, national organizations, and consumers, 
including press releases, brochures, fact sheets, toolkits, other print 
and electronic materials, and ensures appropriate clearance of these 
materials; (11) assists in the preparation

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of speeches and congressional testimony for the division director, the 
center director, and other public health officials; (12) provides 
program services support in extramural programs management; and (13) 
collaborates, as appropriate, with other divisions and offices of 
NCHHSTP, other CIOs throughout CDC, and other federal agencies in 
carrying out these activities.
    Program Development and Services Branch (CVJJB). (1) Provides 
consultation, training, educational, and other technical services to 
assist state, territorial, and local education and health departments, 
tribal governments, national nongovernmental organizations, and other 
societal institutions to implement and improve policy, systems, and 
environmental changes and interventions to reduce priority sexual 
health risks among youth; (2) uses the results of surveillance and 
evaluation research and research syntheses to improve the impact of 
school- and community-based interventions designed to reduce priority 
health risks among youth and to promote changes in behaviors related to 
HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted diseases, and unintended 
pregnancy; (3) provides leadership to the nationwide network of leaders 
in school-based HIV prevention to promote linkages between state and 
local public health departments with education agencies; (4) assesses 
training and technical assistance needs and develops strategies to 
build the capacity of funded partners, other external partners, and 
division staff, and (5) provides consultation to other divisions within 
NCHHSTP and CDC on how schools work and how to foster effective 
collaboration between public health and education departments.
    Research Application and Evaluation Branch (CVJJC). (1) Conducts 
evaluation research to expand knowledge of the determinants of priority 
health risk behaviors among youth and to identify effective policies 
and practices that schools and other societal institutions can 
implement to reduce priority health risks among youth; (2) synthesizes 
and disseminates research findings to improve the impact of 
interventions designed to reduce priority sexual health risks among 
youth, including those designed to address cross-cutting issues and 
protective factors; (3) develops and disseminates guidelines and tools 
to help schools and other societal institutions apply research 
synthesis findings to reduce priority health risks among youth; and (4) 
in collaboration with other NCHHSTP divisions and with other 
governmental and non-governmental organizations, develops and promotes 
evidence-based policies, practices, and evaluation methods.
    School-Based Surveillance Branch (CVJJD). (1) Maintains 
international, national, state, tribal, and local school-based 
surveillance systems to identify and monitor priority health risk 
behaviors and health outcomes among youth; (2) maintains national, 
state, tribal, and local surveillance systems to monitor school health 
policies and practices designed to address priority health risk 
behaviors and health outcomes among youth; (3) designs, develops, and 
disseminates a wide variety of products describing school-based 
surveillance data; (4) provides comprehensive technical assistance to 
state and local education and health agencies, tribal governments, and 
ministries of health and education in the planning and implementation 
of school-based surveillance systems; (5) manages extramural funding of 
school-based surveillance systems; and (6) collaborates with other 
branches, divisions, and offices in NCHHSTP and other CIOs throughout 
CDC to accomplish the functions listed above.

    Dated: January 11, 2012.
Sherri A. Berger,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2012-1817 Filed 1-27-12; 8:45 am]
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