[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 73 (Wednesday, April 15, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21008-21009]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-07939]


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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 84 FR 65981, dated December 12, 2019) is 
amended to reorganize the Center for Preparedness and Response, Deputy 
Director for Public Health Service and Implementation Science, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention.
    Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as 
follows:
    Delete in its entirety the titles and functional statements for 
Division of State and Local Readiness (CBCB) insert the following:
    Division of State and Local Readiness (CBCB). The Division of State 
and Local Readiness (DSLR): (1) Provides program support, technical 
assistance, guidance, technical integration, and capacity building of 
preparedness planning across public health, healthcare, and emergency 
management sectors; and (2) provides fiscal oversight to state, local, 
tribal, and territorial public health department Cooperative Agreement 
recipients for the development, monitoring, and evaluation of public 
health capabilities, plans, infrastructure, and systems to prepare for 
and respond to terrorism, outbreaks of disease, natural disasters, and 
other public health emergencies.
    Office of the Director (CBCB1). (1) Provides national leadership 
and guidance that supports and advances the work of state, local, 
tribal, and territorial public health emergency preparedness programs; 
(2) coordinates the development of guidelines and standards for 
programmatic materials within the division to provide technical 
assistance and program planning at the state, local, tribal, and 
territorial level; (3) represents and communicates the interests and 
needs of the state, local, tribal, and territorial jurisdictions on 
state and local preparedness and response issues; (4) develops and 
ensures effective partnerships with national stakeholders and 
preparedness and response partners; (5) provides oversight and 
management of division contracts, recipient awards and fiscal 
accountability; and (6) manages the IT strategy and infrastructure to 
support recipient programmatic and fiscal activities.
    Program Implementation Branch (CBCBB). (1) Provides consultation, 
technical assistance, and training to state, territorial, tribal, and 
local health departments in management and operation of activities to 
support public health emergency preparedness programs and recovery, 
including the infrastructure and systems necessary to manage and use 
deployed medical countermeasure assets; (2) facilitates partnerships 
between public health preparedness programs at federal, state, and 
local levels to ensure their consistency, sharing of promising 
practices, and integration; (3) collaborates with and supports other 
divisions in CPR and other national centers across CDC to ensure high 
quality technical assistance is available to the grantees on 
preparedness capabilities; (4) monitors programmatic activities of 
cooperative agreements of state, local, tribal, and territorial 
organizations to assure program objectives and key performance 
indicators are achieved, including reviews of Cities Readiness 
Initiative response plans; (5) provides assistance to state and local 
governments and public health agencies to prepare for effective 
responses to large scale public health events; (6) evaluates and 
identifies gaps in jurisdictional operational readiness and facilitates 
plans and develops tools to address identified gaps; (7) maintains an

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information sharing platform to post resources and facilitate the 
sharing of best practices across CDC and jurisdictions; (8) improves 
the delivery of technical assistance to the public health entities; (9) 
serves as an agent of information to improve recipient access to 
healthcare preparedness tools and expertise and (10) collaborates with 
the Department during exercises or upon a federal deployment of assets.
    Evaluation and Analysis Branch (CBCBC). (1) Assesses the 
effectiveness of the Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) 
Cooperative Agreement via performance measurement and evaluation; (2) 
develops and coordinates a strategy to measure and report on 
jurisdictional operational readiness; (3) provides analytic support and 
evaluation expertise to DSLR and CPR; and (4) fosters innovation and 
efficiency in evaluation and research through collaboration with 
healthcare and health security partners.
    Field Assignee Services Branch (CBCBD). (1) Works with recipients 
to advance state and local preparedness efforts through placement of 
CDC field staff within state and local public health agencies; (2) 
provides scientific participation in development and implementation of 
field-based science initiatives and strategies; (3) provides 
situational awareness to CDC leadership when activated for public 
health responses; (4) provides consultation and technical assistance to 
state, territorial, tribal and local health departments in developing, 
implementing, and evaluating CPR activities and performance in support 
of CDC recommendations and those of their host site; (5) provides 
direct support for public health preparedness and epidemiologic 
capacity at the state, territorial, tribal, and local levels; (6) 
contributes as leaders in preparedness and epidemiology for a myriad of 
public health issues; (7) participates in the development of national 
preparedness and response policies and guidelines for public health 
emergencies and encourages and facilitates the transfer of guidelines 
into clinical and public health practice; (8) analyzes data to assess 
progress toward achieving program objectives and provides input for 
program management and evaluation reports for publications; (9) serves 
as liaison or focal point to assist state, territorial, tribal, and 
local partners in linking with proper resources, contacts, and 
obtaining technical assistance; (10) provides technical supervision and 
support for the CDC field staff and trainees as appropriate; (11) 
provides input into the development of branch and division policy, 
priorities, and operational procedures; (12) serves as an agent of 
information or technology transfer to ensure that effective methodology 
in one program is known and made available to other state and local 
programs; (13) analyzes technical and epidemiologic information to 
present at national and international scientific meetings and publishes 
programmatic, surveillance, epidemiologic information in collaboration 
with host agencies; and (14) develops and implements a comprehensive 
training and field placement program for entry-level public health 
preparedness and response professionals.

Sherri A. Berger,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2020-07939 Filed 4-14-20; 8:45 am]
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