[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 93 (Monday, May 14, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22263-22264]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-10224]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for Injury 
Prevention and Control, (BSC, NCIPC)

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the CDC 
announces the following meeting for the Board of Scientific Counselors, 
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, (BSC, NCIPC). This 
meeting is open to the public limited only by the space and ports 
available. The meeting room accommodates 70 participants and there will 
be 125 ports available. Due to the limited accommodations by phone 
ports and room size, we are encouraging the public to please register 
using the link provided: Register Here. There will be public comment 
periods from 11:10 a.m.-11:40 a.m., on June 19, 2018, and from 11:30 
a.m.-11:45 a.m., on June 20, 2018. All public comments will be limited 
to two-minutes per speaker.

DATES: The meeting will be held on June 19, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m., 
EDT and June 20, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m., EDT.

ADDRESSES: Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chamblee Campus, 
4770 Buford Highway, Building 107, Conference Room 1-A/B, Atlanta, 
Georgia 30341 and via Teleconference: Dial-In Number: 1-888-769-9404, 
Participant Code: 5536840. (U.S. & Canada Participants) 1-210-234-0065, 
Participant Code: 5536840 (International Participants).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gwendolyn H. Cattledge, Ph.D.,

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M.S.E.H., Deputy Associate Director for Science, NCIPC, CDC, 4770 
Buford Highway NE, Mailstop F-63, Atlanta, GA 30341, Telephone (770) 
488-1430, Email address: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Purpose: The Board will: (1) Conduct, encourage, cooperate with, 
and assist other appropriate public health authorities, scientific 
institutions, and scientists in the conduct of research, 
investigations, experiments, demonstrations, and studies relating to 
the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention of physical 
and mental diseases, and other impairments; (2) assist States and their 
political subdivisions in preventing and suppressing communicable and 
non-communicable diseases and other preventable conditions and in 
promoting health and well-being; and (3) conduct and assist in research 
and control activities related to injury. The Board of Scientific 
Counselors makes recommendations regarding policies, strategies, 
objectives, and priorities; and reviews progress toward injury 
prevention goals and provides evidence in injury prevention-related 
research and programs. The Board also provides advice on the 
appropriate balance of intramural and extramural research, the 
structure, progress and performance of intramural programs. The Board 
is designed to provide guidance on extramural scientific program 
matters, including the: (1) Review of extramural research concepts for 
funding opportunity announcements; (2) conduct of Secondary Peer Review 
of extramural research grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts 
applications received in response to the funding opportunity 
announcements as it relates to the Center's programmatic balance and 
mission; (3) submission of secondary review recommendations to the 
Center Director of applications to be considered for funding support; 
(4) review of research portfolios, and (5) review of program proposals.
    Matters To Be Considered: Day One: The agenda will include 
discussions on Methodologies for Estimating Rates of Opioid 
Prescribing; a request and BSC vote to establish a workgroup to 
estimate, or provide reference points for, opioid prescribing for acute 
and chronic pain; the Center's focus on science matters to include 
research strategies needed to guide the Center's focus on reducing 
opioid overdose; and CDC and NIH research to reduce opioid overdose. 
Public comments on the formation of the Opioid Prescribing Estimates 
workgroup must be made during the comment period on June 19, 2018, 
11:10 a.m.-11:40 a.m. to be considered before the BSC vote. Day Two: 
The agenda will include discussions on reducing youth violence through 
CDC's National Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention, and 
discuss improvements to Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting 
System (WISQARS) data visualization. Agenda items are subject to change 
as priorities dictate.
    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.

Claudette Grant,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2018-10224 Filed 5-11-18; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4163-18-P