[United States Government Manual]
[July 01, 1995]
[Pages 270-308]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
200 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20201
Phone, 202-619-0257
SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Donna E. Shalala
Counselor to the Secretary Peter B. Edelman
Confidential Assistant to the Jolinda Gaither
Secretary
Deputy Secretary Walter Broadnax
Chief of Staff Kevin Thurm
Executive Secretary Claudia Cooley
Inspector General June Gibbs Brown
Principal Deputy Inspector Michael F. Mangano
General
Deputy Inspector General for Dennis J. Duquette
Management and Policy
Deputy Inspector General for Thomas D. Roslewicz
Audit Services
Deputy Inspector General for (vacancy)
Investigations
Assistant Inspector General for John E. Hartwig
Criminal Investigations
Deputy Inspector General for George F. Grob
Evaluation and Inspections
Assistant Inspector General for Eileen T. Boyd
Civil Fraud and
Administrative Adjudication
Director, Office for Civil Rights Dennis Hayashi
Deputy Director Omar V. Guerrero
Associate Deputy Director, Paul R. Kretchmar
Management Planning and
Evaluation
Deputy to the Associate (vacancy)
Director, Management
Planning and Evaluation
Associate Deputy Director, Ronald Copeland
Program Operations
Deputy to the Associate Deputy Patricia Mackey
Director, Program
Operations
Director, Policy and Special Marcella Haynes
Projects Staff
Director, U.S. Office of Consumer Bernice Friedlander
Affairs and Special Assistant
to the President
Director, U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs and Polly Baca
Special Assistant to the President
Assistant Secretary (Public Affairs) Avis LaVelle
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Melissa Skolfield
Public Affairs (Policy and
Communications)
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Victor Zonana
Public Affairs (Media)
Director, News Division P. Campbell Gardett
Assistant Secretary (Legislation) Jerry D. Klepner
Special Assistant Irene Bueno
Principal Deputy Assistant Richard J. Tarplin
Secretary
Deputy Assistant Secretary Kimberly C. Parker
(Congressional Liaison)
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Deputy Assistant Secretary Karen L. Pollitz
(Health)
Deputy Assistant Secretary (Human Mary M. Bourdette
Services)
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation David T. Ellwood
Executive Assistant Naomi Goldstein
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Kenneth Thorpe
Health Policy
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Gerald H. Britten
Program Systems
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Wendell E. Primus
Human Services Policy
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Robyn Stone
Disability Aging and Long-
Term Care Policy
General Counsel Harriet S. Rabb
Deputy General Counsel Beverly Dennis III
Deputy General Counsel (Legal Nan Hunter
Counsel)
Special Assistant to the General Andrew Hyman
Counsel
Executive Officer (vacancy)
Associate General Counsel, (vacancy)
Business and Administrative
Law Division
Associate General Counsel, Civil George Lyon
Rights Division
Associate General Counsel, (vacancy)
Children, Families and Aging
Associate General Counsel, Food Margaret Porter
and Drug Division
Associate General Counsel, Health Darrel Grinstead
Care Financing Division
Associate General Counsel, D. McCarty Thornton
Inspector General Counsel
Associate General Counsel, (vacancy)
Legislation
Deputy General Counsel, Program Anna L. Durand
Review
Associate General Counsel, Public Richard Riseberg
Health Division
Deputy General Counsel, Michael S. Wald
Regulation
Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget Elizabeth M. James,
Acting
Principal Deputy Assistant Elizabeth M. James
Secretary for Management and
Budget
Senior Advisor LaVarne Burton
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Dennis P. Williams
Budget
Deputy Assistant Secretary, George Strader
Finance
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Neil Stillman
Information Resources
Management
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Terrence J. Tychan
Grants and Acquisition
Management
Director, Administrative Services Peggy J. Dodd
Center
Assistant Secretary for Personnel Thomas S. McFee
Administration and Director, Equal
Employment Opportunity
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Eugene Kinlow
Personnel Administration and
Deputy Director, Equal
Employment Opportunity
Director, Center for Human Charles J. McCarty
Resource Strategic Planning
and Policy
Chairman, Departmental Appeals Norval (John) D. Settle
Board
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Director, Office of Human Thomas M. King
Resource Information
Management
Director, Office of Personnel (vacancy)
Services
Director, Office of Human (vacancy)
Relations
ADMINISTRATION ON AGING
330 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20201
Phone, 202-619-0556
Assistant Secretary for Aging Fernando M. Torres-Gil
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Portia P. Mittelman
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Program John F. McCarthy
Development and Elder Rights Programs
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Program William F. Benson
Operations and Intergovernmental Affairs
Director, Office of State and Community Edwin L. Walker
Programs
Director, Office of American Indian, Alaskan M. Yvonne Jackson
Native, and Native Hawaiian Programs
Director, Office of Policy Coordination and (vacancy)
Analysis
Director, Office of Administration and Donald D. Smith
Management
Director, Office of Field Operations Alicia V. Ors
ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
370 L'Enfant Promenade SW., Washington, DC 20447
Phone, 202-401-9200
Assistant Secretary Mary Jo Bane
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (vacancy)
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Program Laurence J. Love
Operations
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Ann Rosewater
External Affairs
Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth Olivia Golden
and Families
Commissioner, Administration on Developmental Bob Williams
Disabilities
Commissioner, Administration for Native Gary Kimble
Americans
Director, Office of Child Support Enforcement Mary Jo Bane
Deputy Director, Office of Child Support David Gray Ross
Enforcement
Director, Office of Community Services Donald Sykes
Director, Office of Information Systems Mark Ragan, Acting
Management/Child Support Information
Systems
Director, Office of Financial Management Norman Thompson
Director, Office of Management Norman Thompson, Acting
Director, Office of Policy and Evaluation Howard Rolston
Director, Office of Public Affairs Michael Kharfen
Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement Lavinia Limon
Director, Office of Family Assistance Lavinia Limon, Acting
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PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health
200 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20201
Phone, 202-690-7694
5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857
Phone, 301-443-2403
Assistant Secretary for Health Philip R. Lee
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Jo Ivey Boufford
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health William Corr
Surgeon General of the Public Health Service Audrey F. Manley,
Acting
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Disease Susanne Stoiber, Acting
Prevention and Health Promotion and Health
Planning and Evaluation
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Anthony L. Itteilag
(Management and Budget)
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Martis J. Davis
(Communications)
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Robert O. Valdez,
(Interagency Liaison) Acting
Deputy Assistant Secretary for International (vacancy)
and Refugee Health
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislation Karen L. Pollitz
(Health)
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health Clay E. Simpson, Acting
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Felicia H. Stewart
Affairs
Director, Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Patrick J. Sheeran,
Programs Acting
Director, Office of Family Planning Samuel S. Taylor,
Acting
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health (Policy Roz Lasker
Development)
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women's Health Susan J. Blumenthal
Executive Director, President's Council on Sandra Perlmutter
Physical Fitness and Sports
Director, Office of HIV/AIDS Policy Arthur J. Lawrence,
Acting
Director, National Vaccine Program Office (vacancy)
Director, Office of Emergency Preparedness Frank E. Young
Director, Office of Equal Employment Pedro J. Morales
Opportunity
Director, Office of Disease Prevention and James A. Harrell,
Health Promotion and Health Planning and Acting
Evaluation
Director, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs Anthony F. Fitzpatrick
Director, Office of International Health Linda Vogel
Director, Office of Refugee Health Joanne Luoto
Director, Office of Research Integrity Lyle W. Bivens
Director, PHS Executive Secretariat Robert A. Rickard
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
2101 E. Jefferson Street, Rockville, MD 20852
Phone, 301-227-8364
Administrator Clifton R. Gous
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Deputy Administrator (vacancy)
Director, Office of Planning and Resource Clifton R. Gous, Acting
Management
Director, Office of Science and Data J. Michael Fitzmaurice
Development
Director, Office of the Forum for Quality and Douglas B. Kamerow
Effectiveness in Health Care
Director, Office of Health Technology Thomas V. Holohan
Assessment
Director, Center for Medical Effectiveness Richard J. Greene
Research
Director, Center for General Health Services Donald E. Goldstone
Intramural Research
Director, Center for General Health Services Linda K. Demlo, Acting
Extramural Research
Director, Center for Research Dissemination and Christine Williams,
Liaison Acting
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1600 Clifton Road NE., Atlanta, GA 30333
Phone, 404-639-3311
Director David Satcher
Deputy Director Claire V. Broome
Associate Director, HIV/AIDS James W. Curran
Associate Director, International Health Joe H. Davis
Associate Director, Management and Operations Arthur C. Jackson
Associate Director, Minority Health Rueben C. Warren
Associate Director, Policy, Planning, and Martha F. Katz
Evaluation
Associate Director, Science Dixie Snider, Acting
Associate Director, Washington Helene Gayle
Deputy Director, Washington Office Frances L. dePeyster
Special Assistant to the Associate Director, Robert C. Irwin
Washington
Office of Equal Employment Opportunity Sue J. Porter
Director, Office of Program Support Arthur C. Jackson
Director, Office of Health and Safety Jonathan Y. Richmond
Director, Office of Program Planning and Martha F. Katz
Evaluation
Director, Office of Public Affairs Ann M. Sims, Acting
Director, Epidemiology Program Office Stephen B. Thacker
Director, International Health Program Office Joe H. Davis
Director, National Immunization Program Walter A. Orenstein
Director, Public Health Practice Program Office Edward L. Baker
Director, National Center for Environmental Richard J. Jackson
Health
Director, National Center for Chronic Disease Jim Marks, Acting
Prevention and Health Promotion
Director, National Center for Infectious James M. Hughes
Diseases
Director, National Center for Injury Prevention Mark L. Rosenberg
and Control
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Director, National Center for Prevention Helene Gayle, Acting
Services
Director, National Institute for Occupational Linda Rosenstock
Safety and Health
Director, National Center for Health Statistics John Anderson, Acting
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
1600 Clifton Road NE., Atlanta, GA 30333
Phone, 404-452-4111
Administrator David Satcher
Deputy Administrator Claire V. Broome
Assistant Administrator Barry L. Johnson
Deputy Assistant Administrator William D. Adams
Food and Drug Administration
5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857
Phone, 301-443-1544
Commissioner of Food and Drugs David A. Kessler
Advisor to the Commissioner Mary Pendergast
Chief Mediator and Ombudsman Amanda Pedersen
Chief Counsel Margaret J. Porter
Special Assistant for Investigations John H. Mitchell,
Acting
Special Agent in Charge, Office of Special Tommy L. Hampton
Investigations
Senior Advisor for Science Elkan Blout
Deputy Commissioner for Operations Linda Suydam, Acting
Associate Commissioner for Ronald G. Chesemore
Regulatory Affairs
Director, Center for Biologics Kathryn C. Zoon
Evaluation and Research
Director, Center for Drug Janet Woodcock
Evaluation and Research
Director, Center for Devices and D. Bruce Burlington
Radiological Health
Director, Center for Food Safety Fred R. Shank
and Applied Nutrition
Director, Center for Veterinary Stephen F. Sundlof
Medicine
Director, National Center for Bernard A. Schwetz
Toxicological Research
Director, Office of AIDS and Randy Wykoff
Special Health Issues
Director, Office of Orphan Marlene E. Haffner
Products Development
Deputy Commissioner for Policy William Schultz
Director, Policy Development and Catherine C. Lorraine,
Coordination Staff Acting
Director, Policy Research Staff Jurian Strobos
Director, Regulations Policy and Edwin V. Dutra, Jr.
Management Staff
Deputy Commissioner for External Affairs Sharon Smith Holston
Associate Commissioner for R. Alexander Grant
Consumer Affairs
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Associate Commissioner for Health Stuart L. Nightingale
Affairs
Associate Commissioner for Diane Thompson
Legislative Affairs
Associate Commissioner for Public James O'Hara III
Affairs
Director, Office of Women's Ruth Merkatz
Health
Deputy Commissioner for Management and Systems Mary Jo Veverka
Associate Commissioner for Robert J. Byrd
Management
Associate Commissioner for Paul Coppinger
Planning and Evaluation
Associate Commissioner for James T. McMahon
Information Resources
Management
Health Resources and Services Administration
5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857
Phone, 301-443-2086
Administrator Ciro V. Sumaya
Deputy Administrator John D. Mahoney
Chief Medical Officer William A. Robinson,
M.D.
Associate Administrator for AIDS G. Stephen Bowen
Associate Administrator for Operations and James P. Purvis, Acting
Management
Associate Administrator for Planning, Ronald H. Carlson
Evaluation, and Legislation
Associate Administrator for Communications Sylvia Shaffer
Associate Administrator for Policy Coordination Cherry Tsutsumida,
Acting
Associate Administrator for International George B. Dines
Health
Associate Administrator for Minority Health Ileana C. Herrell
Associate Administrator for Equal Opportunity J. Calvin Adams
and Civil Rights
Associate Administrator for Public Health Douglas S. Lloyd
Practice
Associate Administrator for Information James E. Larson
Resources Management
Director, Office of Rural Health Policy Jeffrey Human
Director, Bureau of Health Professions Fitzhugh M. Mullan
Director, Maternal and Child Health Bureau Audrey H. Nora
Director, Bureau of Health Resources G. Stephen Bowen
Development
Director, Bureau of Primary Health Care Marilyn H. Gaston
Indian Health Service
5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857
Phone, 301-443-1083
Director Michael H. Trujillo,
M.D.
Deputy Director Michel Lincoln
Director of Headquarters Operations Luana L. Reyes, Acting
Director, Communications Staff Tony Kendricks
Director, Policy Review and Coordination Staff Joseph Deffenbaugh,
Acting
Director, Executive Secretariat Darrell Galpin
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Director, Equal Employment Opportunity and Cecelia Heftel
Civil Rights Staff
Associate Director, Office of Administration George Buzzard
and Management
Associate Director, Office of Planning, Ed Simermeyer, Acting
Evaluation, and Legislation
Associate Director, Office of Tribal Activities Douglas Black
Associate Director, Office of Environmental Gary Hartz, Acting
Health and Engineering
Associate Director, Office of Information Richard Church
Resource Management
Associate Director, Office of Health Programs Phillip Smith, M.D.
Associate Director, Office of Human Resources Robert McSwain, Acting
Associate Director, Office of Health Program Eleanore Robertson
Research and Development
National Institutes of Health
9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone, 301-496-4000
Director Harold E. Varmus
Deputy Director Ruth L. Kirschstein
Deputy Director for Intramural Research Michael M. Gottesman
Deputy Director for Extramural Research Wendy Baldwin
Deputy Director for Science Policy and Daryl A. Chamblee,
Technology Transfer Acting
Assistant Director for Program Coordination Vida H. Beaven
Associate Director for Research on Women's Vivian W. Pinn
Health
Associate Director for Research on Minority John Ruffin
Health
Associate Director for Administration Leamon M. Lee
Associate Director for AIDS Research William E. Paul
Associate Director for Clinical Research John I. Gallin
Associate Director for Communications R. Anne Thomas
Associate Director for Disease Prevention William R. Harlan
Associate Director for Extramural Affairs George J. Galasso
Associate Director for Intramural Affairs Philip S. Chen, Jr.
Associate Director for Research Services Stephen A. Ficca
Director, Office of Equal Employment Naomi Churchill
Opportunity
Director, National Cancer Institute Edward J. Sondik,
Acting
Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Claude J.M. Lenfant
Institute
Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Phillip Gorden
Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Director, National Library of Medicine Donald A.B. Lindberg
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Anthony S. Fauci
Infectious Diseases
Director, National Institute on Deafness and James B. Snow, Jr.
Other Communication Disorders
Director, National Institute of Dental Research Dushanka V. Kleinman
Director, National Institute of Neurological Zach W. Hall
Disorders and Stroke
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Director, National Institute of General Medical Marvin Cassman, Acting
Sciences
Director, National Institute of Child Health Duane F. Alexander
and Human Development
Director, National Institute of Environmental Kenneth Olden
Health Sciences
Director, National Eye Institute Carl Kupfer
Director, National Institute on Aging Richard Hodes
Director, National Institute of Arthritis and Michael D. Lockshin,
Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Acting
Director, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse Enoch Gordis
and Alcoholism
Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse Alan I. Leshner
Director, National Institute of Mental Health Rex William Cowdry,
Acting
Director, Division of Research Grants Donal H. Luecke, Acting
Director, Clinical Center John I. Gallin
Director, National Center for Research Judith L. Vaitukaitis
Resources
Director, Fogarty International Center Philip E. Schambra
Director, Division of Computer Research and David Rodbard
Technology
Director, National Institute of Nursing Patricia A. Grady
Research
Director, National Center for Human Genome Francis S. Collins
Research
SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857
Phone, 301-443-4797
Administrator Nelba Chavez
Deputy Administrator Michele W. Applegate,
Acting
Associate Administrator for Management Richard Kopanda, Acting
Associate Administrator for Communications James Friedman, Acting
Associate Administrator for Extramural Programs Joel Goldstein, Acting
Associate Administrator for Policy and Program Frank J. Sullivan
Coordination
Associate Administrator for Alcohol Prevention Bettina M. Scott,
and Treatment Policy Acting
Director, Office on AIDS Cynthia Prather, Acting
Associate Administrator for Women's Services Mary C. Knipmeyer
Director, Office of Applied Studies Daniel Melnick, Acting
Director, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Elaine M. Johnson
Director, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment David J. Mactas
Director, Center for Mental Health Services Bernard S. Arons
Director, Office of Management, Planning, and Michele W. Applegate,
Communications Acting
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HEALTH CARE FINANCING ADMINISTRATION
200 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20201
Phone, 202-245-6113
Administrator Bruce C. Vladeck
Deputy Administrator Helen Smits, M.D.
Executive Associate Administrator (vacancy)
Chairman, Provider Reimbursement Review Board Irvin W. Kues
Director, Equal Employment Opportunity Staff Joanne Hitchcock, M.D.
Director, Executive Secretariat Joyce Somsak
Director, Office of Legislative and Inter- Deborah Chang
Governmental Affairs
Deputy Director Thomas Gustafson
Director, Medicaid Bureau Sally Richardson
Deputy Director Rozann Abato
Director, Office of Managed Care Rodney Armstead, M.D.
Deputy Director Gale Drapala
Associate Administrator for Customer Relations Pamela Gentry, Acting
and Communication
Director, Office of Beneficiary Services Roger Goodacre
Director, Office of Public Affairs Anne Marie Hummel
Director, Office of Public Liaison Martha DiSario
Associate Administrator for Policy Kathleen Buto
Deputy Associate Administrator Barbara Cooper
Director, Bureau of Policy Development Thomas Ault
Deputy Director Barbara Wynn
Director, Office of Research and Demonstrations (vacancy)
Deputy Director Thomas Kickham
Director, Office of the Actuary Richard Foster
Deputy Director (vacancy)
Associate Administrator for Operations and Steven Pelovitz
Resource Management
Deputy Associate Administrator David Butler
Director, Office of the Attorney Advisor Marion Silva
Director, Office of Financial and Human William Broglie
Resources
Deputy Director Ronald Gwyn
Director, Bureau of Program Operations Carol Walton
Deputy Director Gary Kavanagh
Director, Bureau of Data Management and Regina McPhillips
Strategy
Deputy Director Michael Odachowski
Director, Health Standards and Quality Bureau Barbara Gagel
Deputy Director David Clark
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The Department of Health and Human Services is the Cabinet-level
department of the Federal executive branch most concerned with people
and most involved with the Nation's human concerns. In one way or
another--whether it is mailing out Social Security checks or making
health services more widely available--HHS touches the lives of more
Americans than any other Federal agency. It is literally a department of
people serving people, from newborn infants to our most elderly
citizens.
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The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was created on April
11, 1953 (5 U.S.C. app.). The Department was redesignated as the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), effective May 4, 1980, by
the Department of Education Organization Act (20 U.S.C. 3508).
Office of the Secretary
The Secretary of Health and Human Services advises the President on
health, welfare, and income security plans, policies, and programs of
the Federal Government. The Secretary directs Department staff in
carrying out the approved programs and activities of the Department and
promotes general public understanding of the Department's goals,
programs, and objectives. The Secretary administers these functions
through the Office of the Secretary and the five Operating Divisions,
which include: the Administration on Aging, the Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration, the Health Care Financing
Administration, the Administration for Children and Families, and the
Public Health Service. The Office of the Secretary includes the offices
of Deputy Secretary, the Assistant Secretaries, Inspector General, and
General Counsel. Some offices whose public purposes are broadly applied
are detailed further.
Civil Rights The Office for Civil Rights is responsible for the
administration and enforcement of the following laws that prohibit
discrimination in federally assisted health and human services programs:
--title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964;
--section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended;
--the Age Discrimination Act of 1975;
--title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972;
--section 407 of the Drug Abuse Offense and Treatment Act of 1972;
--section 321 of the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Act of 1970;
--the Equal Employment Opportunity provisions of the Communications
Finance Act of 1934, as amended;
--titles VI and XVI of the Public Health Service Act;
--the nondiscrimination provisions of the Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1981;
--section 307(a) of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act;
--titles VII and VIII of the Public Health Service Act; and
--subtitle A, title II, of the Americans with Disabilities Act of
1990.
Consumer Affairs The U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs advises the White
House and the Secretary of HHS on consumer-related policy and programs
and is responsible for handling consumer matters; analyzes and
coordinates implementation of all Federal activities in the area of
consumer protection; and recommends ways in which governmental consumer
programs can be made more effective. The Director of the Office also
chairs the U.S. Consumer Affairs Council.
Regional Offices
The 10 Regional Directors of the Department of Health and Human Services
are the Secretary's representatives in direct, official dealings with
State and local government organizations. They provide a central focus
in each region for departmental relations with Congress and promote
general understanding of Department programs, policies, and objectives.
They also advise the Secretary on the potential effects of decisions and
provide administrative services and support to Department programs and
activities in the regions.
Regional Offices--Department of Health and Human Services
(Areas included within each region are indicated on the map in Appendix A.)
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Region/Address Director Telephone
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1. John F. Kennedy Federal Bldg., Boston, Philip Johnston............................ 617-565-1500
MA 02203
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2. 26 Federal Plz., New York, NY 10278 Alison E. Greene........................... 212-264-4600
3. 3535 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104 Lynn Yeakel................................ 215-596-6492
4. 101 Marietta Twr., Atlanta, GA 30323 Patricia Ford-Roegner...................... 404-331-2442
5. 105 W. Adams St., Chicago, IL 60603 Elaine Weiss............................... 312-353-5160
6. 1200 Main Twr., Dallas, TX 75202 Patricia Montoya........................... 214-767-3301
7. 601 E. 12th St., Kansas City, MO 64106 Kathleen Steele............................ 816-426-2821
8. 1961 Stout St., Denver, CO 80294-3538 Margaret Cary.............................. 303-844-3372
9. Federal Office Bldg., San Francisco, CA Grantland Johnson.......................... 415-556-1961
94102
10. Blanchard Plz. Bldg., 2201 6th Ave., Patrick McBride, Acting.................... 206-615-2010
Seattle, WA 98121
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Administration on Aging
The Administration on Aging is the principal agency designated to carry
out the provisions of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended (42
U.S.C. 3001 et seq). As the lead agency within HHS on all issues
concerning aging, it:
--advises the Secretary, Department components, and other Federal
departments and agencies on the characteristics, circumstances, and
needs of older people;
--develops policies, plans, and programs designed to promote their
welfare and advocates for their needs in HHS program planning and policy
development;
--administers a program of formula grants to States to establish
State and community programs for older persons under the title III of
the act (45 CFR 1321);
--administers a program of grants to American Indians, Alaskan
Natives, and Native Hawaiians to establish programs for older Native
Americans under title VI of the act (45 CFR 1328);
--provides policy, procedural direction, and technical assistance to
States and Native American grantees to promote the development of
community-based systems of comprehensive social, nutrition, and support
services for older persons;
--administers programs of training, research, and demonstration
under title IV of the act; and
--administers ombudsman and legal services oversight and protective
services for older people under title VII of the act.
For further information, contact the Assistant Secretary for Aging.
Phone, 202-401-4541.
Administration for Children and Families
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) was created on April
15, 1991, under authority of section 6 of Reorganization Plan No. 1 of
1953 and pursuant to the authority vested in the Secretary of Health and
Human Services.
The Administration is headed by the Assistant Secretary for Children
and Families, who reports to the Secretary of HHS. The Assistant
Secretary also serves as the Director of Child Support Enforcement. The
Administration provides executive direction, leadership, and guidance to
all ACF components; advises the Secretary and Deputy Secretary on ACF
programs; and recommends actions and strategies to improve coordination
of ACF efforts with other programs, agencies, and governmental levels or
jurisdictions.
Administration on Children, Youth and Families The Administration on
Children, Youth and Families (ACYF) advises the Secretary, through the
Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, on matters relating to
the
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sound development of children, youth, and families. ACYF administers
State grant programs under titles IV-B and IV-E of the Social Security
Act to assist States in providing child welfare services and foster care
and adoption assistance; child care programs authorized under title IV-A
of the Social Security Act and the Child Care and Development Block
Grant; and State grant programs to improve and increase child abuse
prevention and treatment activities and develop family preservation and
family support services. ACYF also administers the Head Start Program;
services for runaway and homeless youth and their families; the Youth
Gang Drug Prevention Program; child welfare services research,
demonstration and training programs, the Adoption Opportunities Program,
and other discretionary child welfare services programs; child abuse and
neglect research and demonstration programs; and the Community Schools
Youth Services and Supervision Grant Program. ACYF also supports and
encourages initiatives to involve the private and voluntary sectors in
the areas of children, youth, and families.
In concert with other components of ACF, ACYF develops and
implements research, demonstration, and evaluation strategies for the
discretionary funding of activities designed to improve and enrich the
lives of children and youth and to strengthen families.
For further information, contact the Commissioner, Administration on
Children, Youth and Families, Administration for Children and Families,
Department of Health and Human Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW.,
Washington DC 20447. Phone, 202-205-8347 or 202-401-2337.
Administration on Developmental Disabilities The Administration on
Developmental Disabilities (ADD) advises the Secretary, through the
Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, on matters relating to
persons with developmental disabilities and their families. ADD serves
as the focal point in the Department for supporting and encouraging the
provision of quality services to persons with developmental
disabilities; assists States, through the design and implementation of a
comprehensive and continuing State plan, in increasing independence,
productivity, and community inclusion of persons with developmental
disabilities; administers the Basic State Grant Program, the Protection
and Advocacy Grant Program, and other discretionary programs; and serves
as a resource in developing policies and programs to reduce or eliminate
barriers experienced by persons with developmental disabilities.
In concert with other components of ACF, ADD develops and implements
research, demonstration, and evaluation strategies for discretionary
funding of activities to improve lives of persons with developmental
disabilities.
For further information, contact the Commissioner, Administration on
Developmental Disabilities, Administration for Children and Families,
Department of Health and Human Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW.,
Washington, DC 20447. Phone, 202-690-6590.
Native Americans The Administration for Native Americans (ANA) advises
the Secretary, through the Assistant Secretary for Children and
Families, on matters relating to American Indians, Alaskan Natives,
Native American Pacific Islanders, and Native Hawaiians-- hereinafter
referred to as Native Americans. ANA represents the concerns of Native
Americans and serves as the focal point in the Department on the full
range of developmental, social, and economic strategies that support
Native American self-determination and self-sufficiency.
ANA administers grant programs to eligible Indian tribes and Native
American organizations in urban and rural areas; provides departmental
liaison with other Federal agencies on Native American affairs, in
conjunction with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Children and
Families; develops and implements research, demonstration, and
evaluation strategies for discretionary funding of activities; and
explores new program concepts and methods for
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increasing the social and economic development of Native Americans.
For further information, contact the Commissioner, Administration for
Native Americans, Administration for Children and Families, Department
of Health and Human Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW., Washington, DC
20447. Phone, 202-690-7776.
Child Support Enforcement The Office of Child Support Enforcement
(OCSE) advises the Secretary on matters relating to child support
enforcement. The Office provides direction, guidance, and oversight to
State Child Support Enforcement (CSE) program offices and on activities
authorized and directed by title IV, part D of the Social Security Act,
and other pertinent legislation. The general purpose of CSE legislation
is to require States to develop programs for establishing and enforcing
support obligations by locating absent parents, establishing paternity
when necessary, and obtaining child support. The Office assists States
in establishing adequate reporting procedures and maintaining records
for operating CSE programs and of amounts collected and disbursed under
such programs, as well as costs incurred in collecting such amounts. The
Office validates applications from States for permission to utilize U.S.
courts to enforce orders for support against absent parents, and
operates the Federal Parent Locator Service. It certifies to the
Secretary of the Treasury the amounts of child support obligations that
require collection in specific instances.
For further information, contact the Child Support Information Officer,
Office of Child Support Enforcement, Administration for Children and
Families, Department of Health and Human Services, 370 L'Enfant
Promenade SW., Washington, DC 20447. Phone, 202-401-9373.
Community Services The Office of Community Services (OCS) advises the
Secretary, through the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, on
matters relating to community programs that promote economic self-
sufficiency. The Office is responsible for administering programs that
serve low-income and needy individuals and addresses the overall goal of
personal responsibility in achieving and maintaining self-sufficiency.
It administers the Community Services Block Grant, Social Services Block
Grant, and the Low-Income Energy Assistance Program and a variety of
discretionary grant programs that foster family stability, economic
security, responsibility, and self-support. Also, it promotes and
provides services to homeless and low-income individuals and develops
new and innovative approaches to reduce welfare dependency.
For further information, contact the Director, Office of Community
Services, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health
and Human Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW., Washington, DC 20447.
Phone, 202-401-9333.
Office of Information Systems Management/Child Support Information
Systems The Office of Information Systems Management/Child Support
Information Systems advises the Assistant Secretary for Children and
Families/Director of Child Support Enforcement on issues and policies
pertaining to information management. It oversees the utilization of
information resources throughout ACF. It directs ACF's information
systems, computer centers, and communications network activities. The
Office approves, monitors, and certifies State information system
projects for ACF programs funded under title IV, parts A, B, E, and F of
the Social Security Act. The Office establishes departmental policy and
coordinates with other Federal agencies regarding State computer-related
projects for computer matching and integrated systems. The Office of
Child Support Information Systems is a separate organizational unit
which reports to the Director of Child Support Enforcement, and which
approves, monitors, and certifies State information systems projects as
specified under title IV, part D of the Social Security Act.
For further information, contact the Director, Office of Information
Systems Management/Child Support Information Systems, Administration for
Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, 370
L'Enfant Promenade SW., Washington, DC 20447. Phone, 202-401-6960.
Financial Management The Office of Financial Management advises the
Assistant Secretary for Children and
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Families on financial management matters. It provides leadership and
direction on budget development and budget execution, financial and
grants policy, oversight and administration of formula, entitlement, and
block and discretionary grants; and resolution of audit findings,
disallowances, and appeals.
For further information, contact the Director, Office of Financial
Management, Administration for Children and Families, Department of
Health and Human Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW., Washington, DC
20447. Phone, 202-401-9238.
Office of Management The Office of Management advises and assists the
Assistant Secretary for Children and Families in the areas of human
resource management, organizational analysis, facilities and
telecommunications management, and acquisitions management. It provides
service to all ACF components on such administration and management
activities as personnel, staff development, labor relations, support
services, management analysis, internal controls, and organizational
studies.
For further information, contact the Director, Office of Management,
Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human
Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW., Washington, DC 20447. Phone, 202-
401-9260.
Policy and Evaluation The Office of Policy and Evaluation recommends to
and advises the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families on all
policy and programmatic matters having substantial impact on program
direction in areas such as program content and objectives, program
evaluation and results, and the costs and benefits of carrying out the
programs. It oversees policy and congressional and legislative affairs,
and manages ACF's regulatory, legislative, research, demonstration, and
evaluation agendas and oversees special initiatives within ACF. The
Office plans, develops, and monitors strategies for promoting ACF policy
and analyzes the impact of programmatic alternatives, including the
fiscal impact.
For further information, contact the Director, Office of Policy and
Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, Department of
Health and Human Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW., Washington, DC
20447. Phone, 202-401-9220.
Public Affairs The Office of Public Affairs (OPA) coordinates public
affairs and communication services for the Assistant Secretary for
Children and Families and for all ACF components. OPA provides
leadership, direction, and oversight in promoting ACF's public affairs
policies, programs, and initiatives. It strategically coordinates ACF's
relationship with the public and private news media and responds to all
media inquiries concerning ACF programs and related issues; directs the
audiovisual and publication management systems for ACF; and serves as
the focal point for intergovernmental coordination activities with State
and local officials, special interest groups, professional and business
organizations, private and voluntary groups, and other Federal agencies.
For further information, contact the Director, Office of Public Affairs,
Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human
Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW., Washington, DC 20447. Phone, 202-
401-9215.
Refugee Resettlement The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) advises
the Secretary, through the Assistant Secretary for Children and
Families, on policies and programs regarding refugee resettlement,
legalized aliens, and repatriation matters. ORR plans, develops, and
directs implementation of a comprehensive program for domestic refugee
and entrant resettlement assistance. The Office provides direction and
technical guidance to the nationwide administration of programs
including Refugee and Entrant Resettlement, State Legislation Impact
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Assistance Grants, and the U.S. Repatriate Program.
For further information, contact the Director, Office of Refugee
Resettlement, Administration for Children and Families, Department of
Health and Human Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW., Washington, DC
20447. Phone, 202-401-9246.
Office of Family Assistance The Office of Family Assistance (OFA)
advises the Secretary, through the Assistant Secretary for Children and
Families, on matters relating to public assistance and economic self-
sufficiency programs. The Office provides leadership, direction, and
technical guidance in administering the following programs nationwide:
Aid to Families with Dependent Children; Aid to the Aged, Blind, and
Disabled in Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands; the Emergency
Assistance Program; the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training
Program; and child care under title IV, part A of the Social Security
Act. OFA develops, recommends, and issues policies, procedures, and
interpretations to provide direction to these programs. It develops and
implements standards and policies for regulating integrated quality
control activities of the Department and the operating divisions. The
Office provides technical assistance to States and assesses their
performance in administering these programs; reviews State planning for
administrative and operational improvements; and recommends actions to
improve effectiveness. It directs reviews, provides consultations, and
conducts necessary negotiations to achieve adherence to Federal laws and
regulations in State plans for public assistance program administration.
Also, it coordinates with ACYF on child care programs.
For further information, contact the Director, Office of Family
Assistance, Administration for Children and Families, Department of
Health and Human Services, 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW., Washington, DC
20447. Phone, 202-401-9275.
Regional Offices--Administration for Children and Families
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Region/Address Administrator Telephone
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I. Boston, MA (Rm. 2000, John F. Hugh Galligan.......................... 617-565-1020
Kennedy Federal Bldg., 02203)
II. New York, NY (Rm. 4049, 26 Federal Mary Ann Higgins....................... 212-264-2890
Plz., 10278)
III. Philadelphia, PA (Rm. 5450, Ralph E. Douglas....................... 215-596-0352
Gateway Bldg., 3535 Market St.,
19104)
IV. Atlanta, GA (Suite 821, 101 Patricia S. Brooks..................... 404-331-5733
Marietta Twr., 30323)
V. Chicago, IL (20th Fl., 105 W. Marion Steffy.......................... 312-353-4237
Adams St., 60603)
VI. Dallas, TX (1200 Main Twr. Bldg., Leon McCowan........................... 214-767-9648
75202)
VII. Kansas City, MO (Rm. 384, Federal Linda Carson........................... 816-426-3981
Bldg., 601 E. 12th St., 64106)
VIII Denver, CO (Rm. 1185, Federal Frank Fajardo.......................... 303-844-2622
. Bldg., 1961 Stout St., 80294-
3538)
IX. San Francisco, CA (Rm. 450, 50 Sharon Fujii........................... 415-556-7800
United Nations Plz., 94102)
X. Seattle, WA (Blanchard Plz., 2201 Stephen Henigson....................... 206-553-2775
6th Ave., 98121)
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Public Health Service
[For the Public Health Service statement of organization, see the
Federal Register of Dec. 2, 1977, 42 FR 61317]
The Public Health Service was established by act of July 16, 1798 (ch.
77, 1 Stat. 605), authorizing marine hospitals for the care of American
merchant seamen. Subsequent legislation has vastly broadened the scope
of its activities.
The Public Health Service Act of July 1, 1944 (42 U.S.C. 201),
consolidated and revised substantially all existing legislation relating
to the Public Health Service. The basic Public Health Service legal
responsibilities have been broadened and expanded many times since 1944.
Major organizational changes have occurred within the Public Health
Service to support its mission to promote the protection and advancement
of the Nation's physical and mental health. This is accomplished by:
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--coordinating with the States to set and implement national health
policy and pursue effective intergovernmental relations;
--generating and upholding cooperative international health-related
agreements, policies, and programs;
--conducting medical and biomedical research;
--sponsoring and administering programs for the development of
health resources, prevention and control of diseases, and alcohol and
drug abuse;
--providing resources and expertise to the States and other public
and private institutions in the planning, direction, and delivery of
physical and mental health care services; and
--enforcing laws to assure the safety and efficacy of drugs and
protection against impure and unsafe foods, cosmetics, medical devices,
and radiation-producing projects.
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health consists of general
and special staff offices that support the Assistant Secretary for
Health and the Surgeon General plan and direct the activities of the
Public Health Service.
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research The Agency was established
by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 (42 U.S.C. 299) as the
successor to the National Center for Health Services Research and Health
Care Technology Assessment. The Agency is the Federal Government's focal
point for health services research. The Agency for Health Care Policy
and Research is the only Federal agency charged with producing and
disseminating scientific and policy-relevant information about the
quality, medical effectiveness, and cost of health care. The Agency's
programs focus on maximizing the value of our national health care
investment by analyzing the costs and improving the outcomes of health
care. Its priorities include:
--reducing health care costs, through studies on the interaction of
cost, quality, and access; microsimulation modeling, to understand the
effect of proposed health care reform; and analyzing health care costs
effected by acute, ambulatory, and long-term care and AIDS;
--expanding clinical practice guideline activities by increasing
production of important guidelines and evaluating their effect on the
cost and quality of health care; and
--enhancing the scientific evidence base for cost-effective clinical
practices, by expanding research to improve clinical decisionmaking and
strengthening clinical information systems for effectiveness research.
The Agency supports and conducts research integral to understanding
the design and performance of the health care delivery system, and
undertakes widespread dissemination of the results of its research and
clinical guidelines it supports. The emphasis on widespread and rapid
dissemination and research on more effective dissemination methods
reflects the goal of the Agency to enhance the value of our national
investment in health care.
The Agency plays an important role in increasing possibilities for
future health services research, including medical effectiveness
research through its support for methodological studies; data
development and research training particularly, related to primary care;
and minority and rural health. The Agency also has an active program in
medical liability.
For further information, call 301-594-8364.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), established as an
operating health agency within the Public Health Service by the
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare on July 1, 1973, is the
Federal agency charged with protecting the public health of the Nation
by providing leadership and direction in the prevention and control of
diseases and other preventable conditions and responding to public
health emergencies. It is composed of 11 major operating components:
Epidemiology Program Office, International Health Program Office,
National Immunization Program Office,
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Public Health Practice Program Office, National Center for Prevention
Services, National Center for Environmental Health, National Center for
Injury Prevention and Control, National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion, National Center for Infectious Diseases, and the
National Center for Health Statistics.
The Agency administers national programs for the prevention and
control of communicable and vector-borne diseases, injury, and other
preventable conditions. It develops and implements programs in chronic
disease prevention and control, including consultation with State and
local health departments. It develops and implements programs to deal
with environmental health problems, including responding to
environmental, chemical, and radiation emergencies.
The Agency directs and enforces foreign quarantine activities and
regulations; provides consultation and assistance in upgrading the
performance of public health and clinical laboratories; organizes and
implements a National Health Promotion Program, including a nationwide
program of research, information, and education in the field of smoking
and health. It also collects, maintains, analyzes, and disseminates
national data on health status and health services.
To ensure safe and healthful working conditions for all working
people, occupational safety and health standards are developed, and
research and other activities are carried out, through the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
The Agency also provides consultation to other nations in the
control of preventable diseases, and participates with national and
international agencies in the eradication or control of communicable
diseases and other preventable conditions.
For further information, call 404-639-3286.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry was established as
an operating agency within the Public Health Service by the Secretary of
Health and Human Services on April 19, 1983. The Agency's mission is to
carry out the health-related responsibilities of the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42
U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), as amended by the Superfund Amendments and
Reauthorization Act of 1986, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
(42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.), and provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act
relating to sites and substances found at those sites and other forms of
uncontrolled releases of toxic substances into the environment. The
Agency provides leadership and direction to programs and activities
designed to protect both the public and workers from exposure and/or the
adverse health effects of hazardous substances in storage sites or
released in fires, explosions, or transportation accidents.
To carry out this mission, the Agency, in cooperation with States
and other Federal and local agencies:
--collects, maintains, analyzes, and disseminates information
relating to serious diseases, mortality, and human exposure to toxic or
hazardous substances;
--establishes appropriate registries necessary for long-term
followup or specific scientific studies;
--establishes and maintains a complete listing of areas closed to
the public or otherwise restricted in use because of toxic substance
contamination;
--assists, consults, and coordinates with private or public health
care providers in the provision of medical care and testing of exposed
individuals;
--assists the Environmental Protection Agency in identifying
hazardous waste substances to be regulated;
--develops scientific and technical procedures for evaluating public
health risks from hazardous substance incidents and for developing
recommendations to
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protect public health and worker safety and health in instances of
exposure or potential exposure to hazardous substances; and
--arranges for program support to ensure adequate response to public
health emergencies.
For further information, call 404-639-0727.
Food and Drug Administration
The name ``Food and Drug Administration'' was first provided by the
Agriculture Appropriation Act of 1931 (46 Stat. 392), although similar
law enforcement functions had been in existence under different
organizational titles since January 1, 1907, when the Food and Drug Act
of 1906 (21 U.S.C. 1-15) became effective.
The Food and Drug Administration's activities are directed toward
protecting the health of the Nation against impure and unsafe foods,
drugs and cosmetics, and other potential hazards.
Office of Operations The Office:
--advises and assists the Commissioner and other key officials on
compliance-oriented matters;
--develops and administers all agency field operations and provides
direction and counsel to regional Food and Drug Directors;
--administers regulation of biological products under the biological
product control provisions of the Public Health Service Act and
applicable provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act;
--works to develop an AIDS vaccine and AIDS diagnostic tests, and
conducts other AIDS-related activities;
--develops and administers programs with regard to the safety,
effectiveness, and labeling of all drug products for human use;
--develops and administers programs with regard to the safety,
composition, quality (including nutrition), and labeling of foods, food
additives, colors, and cosmetics;
--develops and administers programs for controlling unnecessary
exposure of humans to, and assures the safe and efficacious use of,
ionizing and non-ionizing radiation-emitting electronic products;
--develops and administers programs with regard to the safety,
effectiveness, and labeling of medical devices for human use; and
--develops and administers programs with regard to the safety and
effectiveness of animal drugs, feeds, feed additives, veterinary medical
devices (medical devices for animal use), and other veterinary medical
products.
The Office of Operations includes the Office of Regulatory Affairs,
the regional field offices, the Center for Biologics Evaluation and
Research, the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, the Center for
Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, the Center for Devices and
Radiological Health, the Center for Veterinary Medicine, the National
Center for Toxicological Research, the Office of AIDS Coordination, the
Office of Orphan Products Development, and the Office of Biotechnology.
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research The Center develops
Administration policy with regard to the safety, effectiveness, and
labeling of all drug products for human use and reviews and evaluates
new drug applications and investigational new drug applications. It
develops and implements standards for the safety and effectiveness of
all over-the-counter drugs and monitors the quality of marketed drug
products through product testing, surveillance, and compliance programs.
The Center coordinates with the Center for Biologics Evaluation and
Research regarding activities for biological drug products, including
research, compliance, and product review and approval, and develops and
promulgates guidelines on Current Good Manufacturing Practices for use
by the drug industry. It develops and disseminates information and
educational material dealing with drug products to the medical community
and the public in coordination with the Office of the Commissioner. It
conducts research and develops scientific standards on the composition,
quality,
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safety, and effectiveness of human drugs; collects and evaluates
information on the effects and use trends of marketed drug products;
monitors prescription drug advertising and promotional labeling to
assure their accuracy and integrity; and analyzes data on accidental
poisonings and disseminates toxicity and treatment information on
household products and medicines.
In carrying out these functions, the Center cooperates with other
components of the Administration, other Public Health Service
organizations, governmental and international agencies, volunteer health
organizations, universities, individual scientists, nongovernmental
laboratories, and manufacturers of drug products.
For further information, call 301-443-2894.
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research The Center administers
regulation of biological products under the biological product control
provisions of the Public Health Service Act and applicable provisions of
the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. It provides dominant focus in
the Administration for coordination of the Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome (AIDS) program, works to develop an AIDS vaccine and AIDS
diagnostic tests, and conducts other AIDS-related activities. It
inspects manufacturers' facilities for compliance with standards, tests
products submitted for release, establishes written and physical
standards, and approves licensing of manufacturers to produce biological
products.
The Center plans and conducts research related to the development,
manufacture, testing, and use of both new and old biological products to
develop a scientific base for establishing standards designed to ensure
the continued safety, purity, potency, and efficacy of biological
products and coordinates with the Center for Drug Evaluation and
Research regarding activities for biological drug products, including
research, compliance, and product review and approval.
The Center plans and conducts research on the preparation,
preservation, and safety of blood and blood products, the methods of
testing safety, purity, potency, and efficacy of such products for
therapeutic use, and the immunological problems concerned with products,
testing, and use of diagnostic reagents employed in grouping and typing
blood.
In carrying out these functions, the Center cooperates with other
components of the Administration, other Public Health Service
organizations, governmental and international agencies, volunteer health
organizations, universities, individual scientists, nongovernmental
laboratories, and manufacturers of biological products.
For further information, call 301-295-9000.
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition The Center conducts
research and develops standards on the composition, quality, nutrition,
and safety of food and food additives, colors, and cosmetics. It
conducts research designed to improve the detection, prevention, and
control of contamination that may be responsible for illness or injury
conveyed by foods, colors, and cosmetics and coordinates and evaluates
the Administration's surveillance and compliance programs relating to
foods, colors, and cosmetics.
The Center also reviews industry petitions and develops regulations
for food standards to permit the safe use of color additives and food
additives; collects and interprets data on nutrition, food additives,
and environmental factors affecting the total chemical result posed by
food additives; and maintains a nutritional data bank.
For further information, call 202-205-4943.
Center for Veterinary Medicine The Center develops and conducts
programs with respect to the safety and efficacy of veterinary
preparations and devices; evaluates proposed use of veterinary
preparations for animal safety and efficacy; and evaluates the
Administration's surveillance and compliance programs relating to
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veterinary drugs and other veterinary medical matters.
For further information, call 301-295-8752.
Center for Devices and Radiological Health The Center develops and
carries out a national program designed to control unnecessary exposure
of humans to, and ensure the safe and efficacious use of, potentially
hazardous ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. It develops policy and
priorities regarding Administration programs relating to the safety,
effectiveness, and labeling of medical devices for human use; conducts
an electronic product radiation control program, including the
development and administration of performance standards.
The Center plans, conducts, and supports research and testing
relating to medical devices and to the health effects of radiation
exposure; and reviews and evaluates medical devices premarket approval
applications, product development protocols, and exemption requests for
investigational devices. It develops, promulgates, and enforces
performance standards for appropriate categories of medical devices and
Good Manufacturing Practice regulations for manufacturers; and provides
technical and other nonfinancial assistance to small manufacturers of
medical devices.
The Center develops regulations, standards, and criteria and
recommends changes in Administration legislative authority necessary to
protect the public health; provides scientific and technical support to
other components within the Administration and other agencies on matters
relating to radiological health and medical devices; and maintains
appropriate liaison with other Federal, State, and international
agencies, with industry, and with consumer and professional
organizations.
For further information, call 301-443-4690.
National Center for Toxicological Research The Center conducts research
programs to study the biological effects of potentially toxic chemical
substances found in the environment, emphasizing the determination of
the health effects resulting from long-term, low-level exposure to
chemical toxicants and the basic biological processes for chemical
toxicants in animal organisms; develops improved methodologies and test
protocols for evaluating the safety of chemical toxicants and the data
that will facilitate the extrapolation of toxicological data from
laboratory animals to man; and develops Center programs as a natural
resource under the National Toxicology Program.
For further information, call 501-543-7304.
Regional Operations Field operations for the enforcement of the laws
under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration are carried
out by 6 Regional Field Offices located in the cities of the
Department's Regional Offices, through 21 District Offices and 135
Resident Inspection Posts located throughout the United States and
Puerto Rico.
For further information, call 301-443-1594. For a listing of Public
Affairs Offices, see page 305.
Office of Policy The Office directs and coordinates the agency's
rulemaking activities and regulations development system; initiates new
and more efficient systems or procedures to accomplish agency goals in
the rulemaking process and plans regulatory reform steps; and serves as
the agency's focal point for developing and maintaining communications,
policies, and programs with regard to regulations development and
international harmonization, including international standard setting
and bilateral agreements on inspections.
The Office of Policy includes the Policy Development and
Coordination Staff, Policy Research Staff, and Regulations Policy and
Management Staff.
Office of External Affairs The Office:
--advises and assists the Commissioner concerning legislative needs;
--serves as the focal point for overall legislative liaison
activities;
--advises and assists the Commissioner and other key officials on
all public information programs;
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--acts as the focal point for disseminating news on FDA activities;
--advises and assists the Commissioner on health issues which have
an impact on policy, direction, and long-range program goals;
--coordinates agency relations with health professional groups and
represents the agency on issues involving technology assessment and
medical insurance coverage decisions regarding FDA-regulated products;
--advises and assists the Commissioner on consumer affairs issues;
--serves as the agency's focal point for coordinating information
from appropriate agency components about significant consumer affairs
issues;
--advises and assists the Commissioner and other agency officials on
industry-related issues which have an impact on policy, direction, and
goals; and
--serves as the agency's focal point on small business, scientific,
and trade affairs.
The Office of External Affairs includes the Office of Consumer
Affairs, the Office of Health Affairs, the Office of Legislative
Affairs, the Office of Public Affairs, the Office of AIDS and Special
Health Issues, and the Office of Women's Health.
Office of Management and Systems The Office:
--advises and assists the Commissioner regarding the performance of
FDA resource planning, development, and evaluation activities;
--develops program and planning strategy through analysis and
evaluation of issues affecting policies and program performance;
--assures that the conduct of agency administrative and financial
management activities, including budget, finance, personnel,
organization, methods, grants and contracts, procurement and property,
records, and similar support activities effectively supports program
operations;
--coordinates the integration and development of management
information systems; and
--advises the Commissioner on management information systems
policies.
The Office of Management and Systems includes the Office of Planning
and Evaluation, the Office of Information Resources Management, and the
Office of Management.
Health Resources and Services Administration The Administration has
leadership responsibility in the Public Health Service for general
health services and resource issues relating to access, equity, quality,
and cost of care.
To accomplish this goal, the Administration:
--supports States and communities in their efforts to plan,
organize, and deliver health care, especially to underserved area
residents, migrant workers, mothers and children, the homeless, and
other groups with special needs;
--participates in the Federal campaign against AIDS by administering
provisions of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Research Emergency
(CARE) Act, funding service demonstration projects in major cities,
establishing centers to train health professionals serving AIDS
patients, supporting renovation of health facilities for AIDS patients,
and awarding pediatric health care grants;
--provides leadership in improving the education, distribution,
quality, and use of the health professionals needed to staff the
Nation's health care system;
--works to determine impact of managed health care on the medical
and health workforce, with promoted emphasis on primary and preventitive
health care;
--tracks the supply of and requirements for health professionals and
addresses their competence through the operation of a health
practitioner data bank;
--monitors developments affecting health facilities and ensures that
previously aided institutions honor their commitments to provide
uncompensated care;
--administers the National Organ Transplant Act by serving as an
information resource on donation,
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procurement, and transplantation and by promoting other activities
designed to increase the availability of donor organs and bone marrow;
--provides direct, personal health services for Hansen's disease
patients and other designated beneficiaries;
--assists Federal managers to assure that employees and workplace
health factors that increase the Government's productivity are raised to
the highest practical level;
--monitors rural health issues; helps coordinate government and
private efforts on behalf of rural health facilities; and promotes
adaption of telecommunications and other technology to meet health needs
of underserved rural areas;
--processes claims submitted under the National Vaccine Injury
Compensation Program;
--strengthens the public health system by working with State and
local public health agencies;
--works to address special health needs of populations in U.S.
border regions and within immigrant populations;
--oversees management of the Federal initiative to combat infant
mortality through grants to hard-hit communities working to overcome
social and non-financial barriers to prenatal care; and
--coordinates health program activities that address the special
needs and problems of minority populations.
For further information, contact the Associate Administrator for
Communications. Phone, 301-443-2086.
Major Components
Bureau of Primary Health Care The Bureau serves as a national focus for
efforts to ensure the availability and delivery of health care services
in health-professional shortage areas, to medically underserved
populations, and to those with special needs.
To accomplish this goal, the Bureau:
--provides, through project grants to community-based organizations,
funds to meet the health needs of populations in medically underserved
areas by supporting the development of primary health care delivery
capacity;
--provides, through project grants to State, local, voluntary,
public, and private entities, funds to help them meet the health needs
of special populations such as migrants, Alzheimer's disease patients,
the homeless, AIDS victims, Pacific Basin inhabitants, Native Hawaiians,
residents of public housing projects, and victims of black lung disease;
--administers the National Health Service Corps Program, which
recruits and places highly trained health care practitioners for health-
professional shortage areas and populations;
--administers the National Health Service Corps Scholarship and Loan
Repayment Programs, which provide financial assistance to medical,
dental, and nursing students or former students in return for service in
health- professional shortage areas;
--designates health-professional shortage and medically underserved
areas and populations;
--provides leadership and direction for the Bureau of Prisons
Medical Program, the National Hansen's Disease Program;
--provides on a reimbursable basis comprehensive occupational health
consultation and assistance to Federal agencies to enhance productivity
and limit employment-related liability through the Federal Employee
Occupational Health Program; and
--administers the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992 (38 U.S.C. 101
note), which provides that participating manufacturers sell Medicaid-
covered outpatient drugs to eligible entities at discount prices.
For further information, contact the Public Affairs Officer. Phone, 301-
443-4814.
Bureau of Health Professions The Bureau provides national leadership in
coordinating, evaluating, and supporting the development and utilization
of the Nation's health personnel.
To accomplish this goal, the Bureau:
--serves as a focus for health care quality assurance activities,
issues related to malpractice, and operation of the National
Practitioner Data Bank and the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program;
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--supports through grants health professions and nurse training
institutions, targeting resources to areas of high national priority
such as disease prevention, health promotion, bedside nursing, care of
the elderly, and HIV/AIDS;
--funds regional centers that provide educational services and
multidisciplinary training for health professions faculty and
practitioners in geriatric health care;
--supports programs to increase the supply of primary care
practitioners and to improve the distribution of health professionals;
--develops, tests, and demonstrates new and improved approaches to
the development and utilization of health personnel within various
patterns of health care delivery and financing systems;
--provides leadership for promoting equity in access to health
services and health careers for the disadvantaged;
--administers several loan programs supporting students training for
careers in the health professions and nursing;
--funds regional centers to train faculty and practicing health
professionals in the counseling, diagnosis, and management of HIV/AIDS-
infected individuals;
--collects and analyzes data and disseminates information on the
characteristics and capacities of U.S. health training systems;
--assesses the Nation's health personnel force and forecasts supply
and requirements; and
--serves as a focus for technical assistance activities in the
international projects relevant to domestic health personnel problems in
coordination with the Office of the Administrator, Health Resources and
Services Administration.
For further information, contact the Information Officer. Phone, 301-
443-2060.
Bureau of Health Resources Development The Bureau of Health Resources
Development (BHRD) has four major programs: Health Facilities, Organ
Transplantation, HIV Services, and Trauma and Emergency Medical Systems.
The Health Facilities Program monitors compliance by health care
facilities with assurances and/or obligations resulting from Hill-Burton
grants and loans, and health professions and nurse training construction
grants and determines the operational, financial, and engineering
condition of applicants and recipients of Federal House Administration
mortgages for hospital construction.
The Organ Transplantation Program supports the National Organ
Procurement and Transplantation Network, designed to ensure equitable
distribution of available organs to patients and transplant centers, and
a Scientific Registry of demographic and clinical information on
transplant recipients. The program also awards and manages a program of
grants and contracts to organ procurement organizations (OPO's) and
other nonprofit entities to increase the number of organ donors in the
United States. As of October 1994, the Division of Organ Transplantation
assumed oversight of the National Marrow Donor Program, a volunteer
registry of potential, unrelated bone marrow donors.
BHRD's Division of HIV Services administers programs which provide
health care and support services for people living with HIV disease. The
Division is responsible for awarding and monitoring the grant programs
established by titles I and II of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS
Resources Emergency (CARE) Act of 1990. These programs provide resources
to eligible metropolitan with the highest levels of reported AIDs cases
and to States and territories to improve the quality and availability of
health care and support services for individuals and families with HIV
disease.
In addition, the Bureau's Office of Science and Epidemiology (OSE)
administers the Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS),
programs whose goals are to advance knowledge and skills in the delivery
of health and support services to persons with HIV infection. Overall
objectives of the SPNS program are to assess the effectiveness of
difference models of care; support
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innovative program design; and promote replication of effective models.
BHRD's Division of Trauma and Emergency Medical Systems provides
grants to States for developing and implementing trauma care systems,
and to public and nonprofit entities to improve availability and quality
of emergency medical services in rural areas.
Maternal and Child Health Bureau The Bureau develops, administers,
directs, coordinates, monitors, and supports Federal policy and programs
pertaining to health and related-care systems for the Nation's mothers
and children. Programs administered by the Bureau address the full
spectrum of primary, secondary, and tertiary care services and related
activities conducted in the public and private sector which impact upon
maternal and child health.
To accomplish this goal, the Bureau:
--provides national leadership in supporting, identifying, and
interpreting national trends and issues relating to the health needs of
mothers, infants, children (both normal and with special health care
needs), and administers State block and discretionary grants, contracts,
and funding arrangements designed to address these issues;
--administers grant, contracts, and other funding arrangements and
programs under title V of the Social Security Act, as amended, relating
to implementation of State maternal and child health (MCH) service
programs, research, training, and education programs located in
institutions of higher learning and State and local health agencies and
organizations involved in the care of mothers and children;
--administers grants, contracts, and other funding arrangements
under section 2671 of the Public Health Service Act for research and
services pertaining to the health status of pediatric AIDS patients;
--administers grants, contracts, and other funding arrangements
under title V of the Social Security Act, as amended, relating to the
care of persons affected by hemophilia (regardless of age);
--administers grants and contracts under title XIX of the Public
Health Service Act relating to pediatric emergency medical systems
development and care improvement;
--develops, promotes, and directs efforts to improve the management,
financing, operational effectiveness and efficiency of health care
systems and the Healthy Start Initiative to reduce infant mortality,
organizations, and providers of maternal and child health and related
care;
--serves as the principal adviser to and coordinates activities with
other Administration organizational elements, other Federal
organizations within and outside the Department, and with State and
local agencies and professional and scientific organizations;
--provides technical assistance and consultation to the full
spectrum of primary, secondary, and tertiary MCH agencies and
organizations in both the public and private sector; and
--maintains liaison and coordinates with non-Federal public and
private entities to accomplish the Bureau's mission and objectives.
For further information, contact the Information Officer. Phone, 301-
443-3376.
Indian Health Service
The goal of the Indian Health Service is to raise the health status of
American Indians and Alaska Natives to the highest possible level. The
Indian Health Service provides a comprehensive health services delivery
system for American Indians and Alaska Natives, with opportunity for
maximum tribal involvement, in developing and managing programs to meet
their health needs.
To carry out its mission and attain its goal, the Service:
--assists Indian tribes in developing their health programs through
activities such as health management training, technical assistance, and
human resource development;
--facilitates and assists Indian tribes in coordinating health
planning; in obtaining and utilizing health resources available through
Federal, State, and local programs; in operating comprehensive health
programs; and in health program evaluation;
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--provides comprehensive health care services, including hospital
and ambulatory medical care, preventive and rehabilitative services, and
development of community sanitation facilities; and
--serves as the principal Federal advocate in the health care field
for Indians to ensure comprehensive health services for American Indian
and Alaska Native people.
For further information, contact the Indian Health Service
Communications Office. Phone, 301-443-3593.
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the principal biomedical
research agency of the Federal Government. Its mission is to employ
science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health conditions.
To accomplish this goal, the Institute seeks to expand fundamental
knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems, to apply that
knowledge to extend the health of human lives, and to reduce the burdens
resulting from disease and disability. In the quest of this mission, NIH
supports biomedical and behavorial research domestically and abroad,
conducts research in its own laboratories and clinics, trains promising
young researchers, and promotes acquiring and distributing medical
knowledge. Focal points have been established to assist in developing
NIH-wide goals for health research and research training programs
related to women and minorities, coordinating program direction, and
ensuring that research pertaining to women's and minority health is
identified and addressed through research activities conducted and
supported by NIH. Research activities conducted by NIH will determine
much of the quality of health care for the future and reinforce the
quality of health care currently available.
Major Components
National Cancer Institute Research on cancer is a high priority program
as a result of the National Cancer Act, which made the conquest of
cancer a national goal. The Institute developed a National Cancer
Program to expand existing scientific knowledge on cancer cause and
prevention as well as on the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of
cancer patients.
Research activities conducted in the Institute's laboratories or
supported through grants or contracts include many investigative
approaches to cancer, including chemistry, biochemistry, biology,
molecular biology, immunology, radiation physics, experimental
chemotherapy, epidemiology, biometry, radiotherapy, and pharmacology.
Cancer research facilities are constructed with Institute support, and
training is provided under university-based programs. The Institute,
through its cancer control element, applies research findings as rapidly
as possible in preventing and controlling human cancer.
For further information, call 301-496-5737.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute The Institute conducts
studies and research into the clinical use of blood and all aspects of
the management of blood resources, and supports training of personnel in
fundamental science and clinical disciplines for participation in basic
and clinical research programs relating to heart, blood vessel, blood,
and lung diseases.
It coordinates with other research institutes and with all Federal
agency programs relating to the above diseases, including programs in
hypertension, stroke, respiratory distress, and sickle cell anemia.
The Institute plans, conducts, fosters, and supports an integrated
and coordinated program of research, investigations, clinical trials and
demonstrations relating to the causes, prevention, methods of diagnosis
and treatment (including emergency medical treatment) of heart, blood
vessel, lung, and blood diseases through research performed in its own
laboratories and through contracts and research grants to scientific
institutions and to individual scientists.
The Institute also conducts educational activities, including the
collection and
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dissemination of educational materials about these diseases, with
emphasis on the prevention thereof, for health professionals and the lay
public, and maintains continuing relationships with institutions and
professional associations and with international, national, and State
and local officials, and voluntary agencies and organizations working in
these areas.
For further information, call 301-496-2411.
National Library of Medicine The Library, which serves as the Nation's
chief medical information source, is authorized to provide medical
library services and on-line bibliographic searching capabilities, such
as MEDLINE, TOXLINE, and others, to public and private agencies and
organizations, institutions, and individuals. It is responsible for the
development and management of a Biomedical Communications Network,
applying advanced technology to the improvement of biomedical
communications, and operates a computer-based toxicology information
system for the scientific community, industry, and other Federal
agencies. Through its National Center for Biotechnology Information, the
Library has a leadership role in developing new information technologies
to aid in the understanding of the molecular processes that control
health and disease. In addition, the Library acquires and makes
available for distribution audiovisual instructional material, and
develops prototype audiovisual communication programs for the health
educational community. Through grants and contracts, the Library
administers programs of assistance to the Nation's medical libraries
that include support of a Regional Medical Library network, research in
the field of medical library science, establishment and improvement of
the basic library resources, and supporting biomedical scientific
publications of a nonprofit nature.
For further information, call 301-496-6308.
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases The
Institute conducts, fosters, and supports basic and clinical research
into the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the various
metabolic and digestive diseases. It covers the broad areas of diabetes,
blood, endocrine, and metabolic diseases; digestive diseases and
nutrition; and kidney and urologic diseases, joined with the Artificial
Kidney/Chronic Uremia Program, through research performed in its own
laboratories and clinics, research grants, individual and institutional
research training awards, applied research and development programs
through the contract mechanisms, field epidemiologic and clinical
investigation studies on selected populations in the United States, and
collection and dissemination of information on Institute programs.
For further information, call 301-496-5741.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases The Institute
conducts and supports broadly based research and research training on
the causes, characteristics, prevention, control, and treatment of a
wide variety of diseases believed to be attributable to infectious
agents, including bacteria, viruses, and parasites, to allergies, or to
other deficiencies or disorders in the responses of the body's immune
mechanisms. Among areas of special emphasis are: asthma and allergic
disease, clinical immunology, including organ transplantation, venereal
diseases, hepatitis, influenza and other viral respiratory infections,
disease control measures, research and development, antiviral
substances, and hospital-associated infections.
For further information, call 301-496-5717.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development The Institute
conducts and supports biomedical and behavioral research on child and
maternal health; on problems of human development, with special
reference to mental retardation; and on family structure, the dynamics
of human population, and the reproductive process. Specific areas of
research
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include pediatric and maternal AIDS, genetic diseases, short stature,
premature puberty, infertility, minority health, learning disabilities
such as dyslexia, sexually transmitted diseases, and the causes of
infant morbidity and mortality--including low birth weight, premature
birth, and sudden infant death syndrome. The Institute recently added a
National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research, which conducts and
supports research and research training related to the rehabilitation of
people with physical disabilities. Research-related findings are
disseminated to other researchers, medical practitioners, and the
general public to improve the health of children and families.
For further information, call 301-496-5133.
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders The
Institute conducts and supports research and training with respect to
disorders of hearing and other communication processes, including
diseases affecting hearing, balance, voice, speech, language, taste, and
smell through a diversity of research performed in its own laboratories;
a program of research grants, individual and institutional research
training awards, career development awards, center grants, and contracts
to public and private research institutions and organizations.
For further information, call 301-496-7243.
National Institute of Dental Research The Institute supports and
conducts clinical and laboratory research directed toward the ultimate
eradication of tooth decay and of a broad array of oral-facial
disorders.
For further information, call 301-496-6621.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences The Institute,
located in Research Triangle Park, NC, conducts and supports fundamental
research concerned with defining, measuring, and understanding the
effects of chemical, biological, and physical factors in the environment
on the health and well-being of man.
For further information, call 919-541-3211.
National Institute of General Medical Sciences The emphasis of the
Institute's programs for support of research and research training is
basic biomedical science. The activities range from cell biology to
genetics to pharmacology and systemic response to trauma and anesthesia.
For further information, call 301-594-7811.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke The Institute
conducts and supports fundamental and applied research on human
neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, multiple
sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, head and spinal cord injuries, and
stroke. The Institute also conducts and supports research on the
development and function of the normal brain and nervous system in order
to better understand normal processes relating to disease states.
For further information, call 301-496-5751.
National Eye Institute The Institute conducts and supports fundamental
studies on the eye and visual system, and on the causes, prevention,
diagnosis, and treatment of visual disorders.
For further information, call 301-496-4274.
National Institute on Aging The Institute conducts and supports
biomedical and behavioral research to increase the knowledge of the
aging process and associated physical, psychological, and social
factors, resulting from advanced age. Incontinence, menopause,
susceptibility to diseases, and memory loss are among the areas of
special concern.
For further information, call 301-496-5345.
National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism The Institute
conducts and supports biomedical and behavioral research, health
services research, research training, and health information
dissemination with respect to the prevention and treatment of alcohol
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abuse and alcoholism, and provides a national focus for the Federal
effort to increase knowledge and promote effective strategies to deal
with health problems and issues associated with alcohol abuse and
alcoholism.
For further information, call 301-443-3885.
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
The Institute conducts and supports fundamental research in the major
disease categories of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases
through research performed in its own laboratories and clinics,
epidemiologic studies, research contracts and grants, and cooperative
agreements to scientific institutions and to individuals. It supports
training of personnel in fundamental sciences and clinical disciplines,
conducts educational activities, including the collection and
dissemination of health educational materials on these diseases, and
coordinates with the other research institutes and with all Federal
health programs relevant activities in the categorical diseases.
For further information, call 301-496-4353.
National Institute on Drug Abuse The Institute provides national
leadership and conducts and supports biomedical and behavioral research,
health services research, research training, and health information
dissemination with respect to the prevention of drug abuse and the
treatment of drug abusers.
For further information, call 301-443-6480.
National Institute of Mental Health The Institute provides leadership
for a national program to increase knowledge and advance effective
strategies to deal with problems and issues in the promotion of mental
health, and the prevention and treatment of mental illness.
For further information, call 301-443-3673.
Clinical Center The Center is designed to bring scientists working in
the Center's laboratories into proximity with clinicians caring for
patients, so that they may collaborate on problems of mutual concern.
The research institutes select patients, referred to the National
Institutes of Health by physicians throughout the United States and
overseas, for clinical studies of specific diseases and disorders. A
certain percentage of the patients are ``normal volunteers,'' healthy
persons who provide an index of normal body functions against which to
measure the abnormal. Normal volunteers come under varied sponsorship,
such as colleges, civic groups, and religious organizations.
For further information, call 301-496-3227.
Fogarty International Center The Center promotes discussion, study, and
research on the development of science internationally as it relates to
health and administers a number of international programs for advanced
study in the health sciences.
For further information, call 301-496-4625.
National Center for Human Genome Research The Center provides
leadership for and formulates research goals and long-range plans to
accomplish the mission of the Human Genome Project, including the study
of ethical, legal, and social implications of human genome research.
Through grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and individual and
institutional research training awards, the Center supports and
administers research and research training programs in human genome
research and the systematic, targeted effort to create detailed maps of
the genomes of organisms. It provides coordination of genome research,
both nationally and internationally; serves as a focal point within NIH
and the Department for Federal interagency coordination and
collaboration with industry and academia; and sponsors scientific
meetings and symposia to promote progress through information sharing.
Through its Division of Intramural Research (DIR), the Center plans and
conducts a program of laboratory and clinical research related to the
application of genome research to
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the understanding of human genetic disease and the development of DNA
diagnostics and gene therapies.
For further information, call 301-496-0844.
National Institute of Nursing Research The Institute provides
leadership for nursing research, supports and conducts research and
training, and disseminates information to build a scientific base for
nursing practice and patient care, and to promote health and improve the
effects of illness on the American people.
For further information, call 301-496-0523.
Division of Computer Research and Technology The Division conducts an
integrated research, developmental, and service program in computer-
related physical and life sciences in support of Institute biomedical
research programs.
For further information, call 301-496-5206.
National Center for Research Resources The Center administers,
fosters, and supports research for the development and support of
various research resources needed on an institutional, regional, or
national basis for health-related research. Programs are carried out
through research grants and individual and institutional research
training awards; cooperation and collaboration with organizations and
institutions engaged in multicategorical research resource activities;
and collection and dissemination of information on research and findings
in these areas. The Center oversees a centralized program of intramural
research resources through the planning, performance, and reporting of
research projects.
For further information, call 301-496-5605.
Division of Research Grants The Division provides staff support to the
Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, in the
formulation of grant and award policies and procedures, central receipt
of all Public Health Service applications for research and research
training support, and makes initial referral to Service components.
For further information, call 301-594-7333.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
provides national leadership to ensure that knowledge, based on science
and state-of-the-art practice, is effectively used for the prevention
and treatment of addictive and mental disorders. SAMHSA strives to
improve access and reduce barriers to high-quality, effective programs
and services for individuals who suffer from or are at risk for these
disorders, as well as for their families and communities.
Major Components
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention The Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention (CSAP) provides a national focus for the Federal effort to
prevent alcohol and other drug abuse. In carrying out its
responsibility, the Center:
--develops, implements, and reviews prevention and health promotion
policy related to alcohol and other drug abuse, analyzing the impact of
Federal activities on State and local governments and private program
activities;
--provides a national focus for the Federal effort to demonstrate
and promote effective strategies to prevent the abuse of alcohol and
other drugs;
--supports innovative comprehensive, collaborative, community-based
prevention demonstration programs;
--operates grant programs for projects to demonstrate effective
models for the prevention and early intervention of alcohol and drug
use/abuse among high-risk youth, and other specific target
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populations, including those within the workplace;
--sponsors regional and national workshops and conferences on the
prevention of alcohol and other drug abuse;
--supports training for substance abuse practitioners and other
health professionals involved in alcohol and drug abuse education,
prevention, and early intervention;
--provides technical assistance to States and local authorities and
other national organizations and groups in the planning, establishment,
and maintenance of substance abuse prevention efforts;
--reviews and approves or disapproves the State Prevention Plans
developed under the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant
Program authority;
--serves as a national authority and resource for the development
and analysis of information relating to the prevention of abuse of
alcohol and other drugs;
--participates in the dissemination and implementation of research
findings by PHS agencies on the prevention of the abuse of alcohol and
other drugs;
--collaborates with and encourages other Federal agencies and
national, State, and local organizations to promote substance abuse
prevention activities; and
--provides and promotes the evaluation of individual projects, as
well as overall programs.
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment The principal function of the
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) is to provide national
leadership for the Federal effort to enhance approaches and expand
programs focusing on the treatment of substance abusers, as well as
associated problems of physical illness and co-morbidity. In carrying
out its responsibility, the Center:
--collaborates with States, communities, health care providers, and
national organizations to upgrade the quality of addiction treatment, to
improve the effectiveness of substance abuse treatment programs, and to
expand addiction treatment capacity;
--provides financial assistance to targeted geographic areas to
increase treatment programs for substance abuse and other related
disorders, and to strengthen the collaboration among the members of the
substance abuse treatment community;
--provides a focus for addressing the treatment needs of individuals
with multiple drug, alcohol, physical, and co-morbidity problems;
--administers a demonstration grant for projects that will implement
and evaluate the Comprehensive Residential Drug Prevention and Treatment
Program for substance-abusing women and their children;
--coordinates the evaluation of the Center's drug treatment
programs, such as the Comprehensive Residential Drug Prevention and
Treatment Program for substance-abusing women and their children;
--collaborates with the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the
States to promote the development of treatment outcome standards;
--collaborates with the Office of the Administrator and other SAMHSA
components in treatment data collection;
--administers programs for the training of health and allied health
care providers;
--promotes mainstreaming of alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health
treatment into the health care system; and
--administers the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block
Grant Program, including compliance reviews, technical assistance to
States, Territories, and Indian tribes, and the application and
reporting requirements related to the block grant programs.
Center for Mental Health Services The Center for Mental Health Services
(CMHS) provides national leadership to ensure the application of
scientifically established findings and practice-based knowledge in the
prevention and treatment of mental disorders; to improve access, reduce
barriers, and promote high-quality, effective programs and services for
people with or at risk for such disorders, as well as for their families
and communities; and to promote the rehabilitation of people with
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mental disorders. To accomplish its mission, the Center:
--supports service and demonstration programs designed to improve
access to care, quality of treatment, rehabilitation, prevention, and
related services, especially for those traditionally underserved or
inadequately served;
--identifies national mental health goals and develops strategies to
meet them;
--designs and supports evaluations, assessments, and service
research activities to assist States, communities, and providers;
--supports activities to improve the administration, availability,
organization, and financing of mental health care;
--supports technical assistance activities to educate professionals,
consumers, family members, and communities, and promotes training
efforts to enhance the human resources necessary to support mental
health services;
--collects data on the various forms of mental illness, including
data on treatment programs, type of care provided, characteristics of
those treated, prevalence, and such other useful data;
--administers Community Mental Health Services block grants and
other programs providing direct assistance to States;
--collects, synthesizes, and disseminates mental health information
and research findings to States and other governmental and mental
health-related organizations, and the public;
--collaborates with other Federal, State, and sub-State units of
government and the private sector to improve the system of treatment and
social welfare supports for seriously mentally ill adults and severely
emotionally disturbed children and adolescents;
--conducts activities to promote advocacy, self-help, and mutual
support and to ensure the legal rights of mentally ill persons,
including those in jails and prisons; and
--collaborates with the alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health
institutes of NIH on service research issues, as well as on other
programmatic issues.
Office of Management, Planning, and Communications The Office of
Management, Planning, and Communications (OMPC) serves as the focal
point for management, planning, and communications functions in support
of SAMHSA components. In carrying out its responsibility, the Office:
--develops policies, guidelines, and procedures concerning SAMHSA-
wide administrative management;
--conducts SAMHSA's activities in the areas of: financial
management; management analysis and services; grants and contracts
management and services, including cost advisory services; information
systems, including computer support and ADP systems; personnel
management; and general administrative services, including procurement
and material management;
--conducts studies and analyses of SAMHSA-wide policies and
programs;
--provides SAMHSA-wide correspondence control services;
--analyzes legislative issues, develops policy- and position-related
papers, and maintains liaison with congressional committees;
--manages SAMHSA-wide intergovernmental and international activities
and constituent relations;
--organizes and administers SAMHSA's communications and public
affairs activities;
--conducts outreach to the media and related organizations to
facilitate coverage and interpretation of SAMHSA's programs and
objectives;
--provides a mechanism for clearance and review of SAMHSA-wide
communications, education, and information projects and related
activities;
--collects and compiles alcohol and other drug abuse prevention
literature and other materials, and supports the CSAP National
Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information and the Regional Alcohol
and Drug Awareness Resource Network to disseminate such materials among
States, political subdivisions, educational agencies and institutions,
health and drug treatment and rehabilitation networks, and the general
public; and
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--supports a clearinghouse to serve as a focal point for information
dissemination that will meet the mental health service needs of
professionals.
Health Care Financing Administration
[For the Health Care Financing Administration statement of organization,
see the Federal Register of March 29, 1994, 59 FR 14628]
The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) was created as a
principal operating component of the Department by the Secretary on
March 8, 1977, to combine under one administration the oversight of the
Medicare program, the Federal portion of the Medicaid program, and
related quality assurance activities. Today, HCFA serves 68 million
elderly, disabled, and poor Americans through Medicare and Medicaid--
approximately one-quarter of the United States population.
Medicare The Medicare Program provides health insurance coverage for
people age 65 and over, younger people who are receiving social security
disability benefits, and persons who need dialysis or kidney transplants
for treatment of end-stage renal disease. As a Medicare beneficiary, one
can choose how to receive hospital, doctor, and other health care
services covered by Medicare. Beneficiaries can receive care either
through the traditional fee-for-service delivery system or through
coordinated care plans, such as health maintenance organizations and
competitive medical plans, which have contracts with Medicare.
Medicaid The Medicaid Program is a medical assistance program jointly
financed by State and Federal governments for eligible low-income
individuals. Medicaid covers health care expenses for all recipients of
Aid to Families with Dependent Children, and most States also cover the
needy elderly, blind, and disabled who receive cash assistance under the
Supplemental Security Income Program. Coverage also is extended to
certain infants and low-income pregnant women and, at the option of the
State, other low-income individuals with medical bills that qualify them
as categorically or medically needy.
Quality Assurance The Medicare/Medicaid programs include a quality
assurance focal point to carry out the quality assurance provisions of
the Medicare and Medicaid programs; the development and implementation
of health and safety standards of care providers in Federal health
programs; and the implementation of the end stage renal disease and the
peer review provisions.
For further information, contact the Administrator, Health Care
Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, 200
Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20201. Phone, 410-966-3000.
Sources of Information
Office of the Secretary
Inquiries on the following information may be directed to the specified
office, Department of Health and Human Services, Humphrey Building, 200
Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20201.
Civil Rights For information on enforcement of civil rights laws, call
or write the Office for Civil Rights, Cohen Building, Washington, DC
20201. Phone: Washington, DC, metropolitan area (202-863-0100 or TDD,
202-863-0101). Outside Washington, DC,
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metropolitan area (800-368-1019 or TDD, 800-537-7697).
Consumer Activities Call or write the U.S. Office of Consumer Affairs.
Phone, 202-395-7900.
Contracts and Small Business Activities For information concerning
programs, call or write the Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged
Business Utilization. Phone, 202-690-7300.
Employment Inquiries regarding applications for employment and the
college recruitment program should be directed to the Office of
Personnel Services. Phone, 202-619-2560.
Locator Inquiries about the location and telephone numbers of HHS
offices should be directed to the HHS locator, Room G-174, Wilbert H.
Cohen Building, 330 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20201.
Phone, 202-619-0257.
Telephone Directory The Department of Health and Human Services
telephone directory is available for sale by the Superintendent of
Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. Phone, 202-
783-3238.
Office of Inspector General
General inquiries may be directed to the Office of Inspector General,
Department of Health and Human Services, 330 Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20201.
Hotline Individuals wishing to report fraud, waste, or abuse against
Department programs should write to: OIG Hotline, P.O. Box 17303,
Baltimore, MD 21203-7303. Phone, 800-368-5779 (toll-free).
Publications Single copies of most Office of Inspector General
publications are available free of charge. Phone, 202-619-1142.
Administration for Children and Families
General inquiries may be directed to the Administration for Children and
Families, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC 20447.
Phone, 202-401-9200.
Contracts Contact the Division of Acquisition Management, Office of
Management. Phone, 202-401-9306.
Information Center Office of Public Affairs, 7th Floor, Aerospace
Building, 370 L'Enfant Promenade SW., Washington, DC 20744. Phone, 202-
401-9215.
Mental Retardation Call or write the President's Committee on Mental
Retardation for information on HHS' mental retardation programs. Phone,
202-619-0634.
Public Health Service
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health Inquiries on the following
subjects should be directed to the specified office, Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Health, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
Employment The majority of positions are in the Federal civil service.
Employment inquiries should be addressed to the Division of Personnel
Operations, Room 17-34. Phone, 301-443-6900.
Many medical, scientific, and technical positions are filled through
the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service, a uniformed service
of the U.S. Government. Inquiries should be directed to the Division of
Commissioned Personnel, Office of the Surgeon General, Room 4A-07.
Phone, 1-800-279-1606 or 301-594-3483.
Films, Publications, and Other Information Information concerning
films, publications, and other specific information should be directed
to the several health agencies that follow. All other inquiries about
the Public Health Service should be directed to the Office of Health
Communications, Room 721-H, Hubert H. Humphrey Building. Phone, 202-690-
6867.
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
Inquiries on the following subjects may be directed to the appropriate
office at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, 2101 E.
Jefferson St., Rockville, MD 20852.
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Grants Write to the Chief, Grants Management Branch. Phone, 301-594-
1447.
Contracts Write to the Chief, Contracts Management Branch. Phone, 301-
594-2441.
Employment Inquiries should be addressed to the Chief, Organization and
Management Systems Staff. Phone, 301-594-1445.
Publications Single copies of most publications produced by the Agency
are available free of charge from the AHCPR Publications Clearinghouse,
P.O. Box 8547, Silver Spring, MD 20907. Phone, 800-358-9295 (toll-free).
Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration
Inquiries on the following subjects may be directed to the specified
office, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, 5600
Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
Contracts Write to the Director, Division of Grants and Contracts
Management. Phone, 301-443-4147.
Employment Inquiries should be addressed to the Director, Division of
Personnel Management. Phone, 301-443-3408.
Publications Write to the Associate Administrator for Communications
and External Affairs. Phone, 301-443-3783.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Inquiries on the following information may be directed to the office
indicated at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600
Clifton Road NE., Atlanta, GA 30333.
Employment The majority of positions are in the Federal civil service.
For information about positions, inquiries may be addressed to the
Personnel Management Office.
Many medical, scientific, and technical positions are filled through
the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service, a uniformed service
of the U.S. Government. Inquiries may be addressed to Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention Personnel Management Office (phone, 404-
639-3276); or to Division of Commissioned Personnel, Office of the
Surgeon General, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human
Services, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
Films Information concerning availability of audiovisual materials
related to program activities may be obtained from the Office of Public
Affairs. Phone, 404-639-3286.
Publications Single copies of most publications are available free of
charge from the Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. Phone, 404-639-3534.
Bulk quantities of publications may be purchased from the
Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC
20402.
Food and Drug Administration
Inquiries on the following subjects may be directed to the specified
office, Food and Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD
20857.
Consumer Activities FDA Public Affairs Offices are located in 32 cities
across the country. Consumer phones in these same cities provide
recorded messages of interest to the consumer. Phone, 301-443-5006.
Public Affairs Offices--Food and Drug Administration
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Atlanta, GA.................................. 60 8th St. NE., 30309.................................................................... 404-347-7355
Baltimore, MD................................ 900 Madison Ave., 21201.................................................................. 301-962-3731
Boston, MA................................... 1 Montvale Ave., Stoneham, MA 02180...................................................... 617-279-1479
Brooklyn, NY................................. 850 3d Ave., 11232....................................................................... 718-965-5043
Buffalo, NY.................................. 599 Delaware Ave., 14202................................................................. 716-846-4483
Chicago, IL.................................. Suite 550, 300 S. Riverside Plz., S. Chicago, IL 60606................................... 312-353-7126
Cincinnati, OH............................... 1141 Central Pkwy., 45202-1097........................................................... 513-684-3501
Cleveland, OH................................ P.O. Box 838, 3820 Center Rd., Brunswick, OH 44212....................................... 216-273-1038
Dallas, TX................................... 3032 Bryan St., 75204.................................................................... 214-655-5315
Denver, CO................................... P.O. Box 25087, Bldg. 20, Denver Federal Ctr., 80225-0087................................ 303-236-3018
Detroit, MI.................................. 1560 E. Jefferson Ave., 48207............................................................ 313-226-6274
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Houston, TX.................................. Suite 420, 1445 N. Loop West, 77008...................................................... 713-229-2322
Indianapolis, IN............................. Rm. 693, 575 N. Pennsylvania St., 46204.................................................. 317-269-6500
Irvine, CA................................... 14900 MacArthur Blvd., Suite 300......................................................... 714-798-7600
Kansas City, MO.............................. 1009 Cherry St., 64106................................................................... 816-374-6366
Minneapolis, MN.............................. 240 Hennepin Ave., 55401................................................................. 612-334-4103
Nashville, TN................................ 297 Plus Park Blvd., 37217............................................................... 615-736-7277
New Orleans, LA.............................. 4298 Elysian Fields Ave., 70122.......................................................... 504-589-2420
Omaha, NE.................................... 200 S. 16th St., 68102................................................................... 402-221-4676
Orlando, FL.................................. Suite 120, 7200 Lake Ellenor Dr., 32809.................................................. 305-855-0900
Parsippany, NJ............................... 10 Waterview Blvd., 3d Fl., 07054........................................................ 201-645-3265
Philadelphia, PA............................. Rm. 900, 2d and Chestnut Sts., 19106..................................................... 215-597-4390
San Antonio, TX.............................. Rm. B-406, 727 E. Durango, 78206......................................................... 512-229-6737
San Francisco, CA............................ Rm. 526, 50 United Nations Plz., 94102................................................... 415-556-1457
San Juan, PR................................. 466 Fernandez Juncos Ave., 00901-3223.................................................... 809-729-6852
Seattle, WA.................................. 22201 23d Dr. SE., Bothell, WA 98021-4421................................................ 206-483-4953
St. Louis, MO................................ 808 N. Collins Alley, 63102.............................................................. 314-425-5021
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Contracts Contact the Director, Division of Contracts and Grants
Management (HFA-500). Phone, 301-443-6890.
Employment The Administration uses various civil service examinations
and registers in its recruitment for positions such as consumer safety
officers, pharmacologists, microbiologists, physiologists, chemists,
mathematical statisticians, physicians, dentists, animal caretakers,
etc. Inquiries for positions in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area
should be directed to the Personnel Officer (HFA-400). Phone, 301-443-
2234.
Inquiries for positions outside the Washington, DC, area should be
directed to the appropriate local FDA office.
Schools interested in the college recruitment program should write
to the Personnel Officer (HFA-400). Phone, 301-443-2234.
Publications FDA Consumer, FDA's official magazine, is available from
the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington,
DC 20402. Phone, 301-443-3220.
Reading Rooms Freedom of Information, Room 12A-30, phone, 301-443-1813;
Hearing Clerk, Room 123, 12420 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, MD 20852,
phone, 301-443-1751; and Press Office, Room 15-05 (or Room 3807, FB-8,
200 C Street SW., Washington, DC 20204), phone, 301-443-3285.
Speakers Available for presentations to private organizations and
community groups. Requests should be directed to the local FDA office.
Health Resources and Services Administration
Inquiries on the following should be directed to the specified office,
Health Resources and Services Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane,
Rockville, MD 20857.
Employment The majority of positions are in the Federal civil service.
For positions in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, employment
inquiries may be addressed to the Division of Personnel, Room 14A46.
Phone, 301-443-5460 or TDD, 301-443-5278. For information on vacant
positions, call 301-443-1230.
Hiring in other areas is decentralized to the Regional Health
Administrators in each of the 10 HHS regional offices. The U.S.
Government listings in the appropriate commercial telephone directories
will provide specific addresses.
Some health professional positions are filled through the
Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service, a uniformed service of
the U.S. Government. Inquiries may be addressed to Division of
Commissioned Personnel, Office of the Surgeon General, Public Health
Service, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
Films Information concerning the availability of audiovisual materials
related to program activities, including films for recruiting minorities
into health professions and women into dentistry, is
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available from the Office of Communications.
Publications Single copies of most publications are available free of
charge from the Office of Communications, Room 14-45. Bulk quantities of
publications may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents,
Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. Certain technical
publications may be purchased from the National Technical Information
Service, Department of Commerce, Springfield, VA 22151.
Indian Health Service
Inquiries on the following subjects should be directed to the specified
office, Indian Health Service, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
Employment The majority of positions are in the Federal civil service.
For positions in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, employment
inquiries may be addressed to the Division of Personnel Management,
Office of Human Resources, Room 4B-44. Phone, 301-443-6520.
Hiring in other parts of the country is decentralized to the 12 area
offices. The U.S. Government listings are in the commercial telephone
directories for: Aberdeen, SD; Albuquerque, NM; Anchorage, AK; Bemidji,
MN; Billings, MT; Nashville, TN; Oklahoma City, OK; Phoenix, AZ;
Portland, OR; Sacramento, CA; Tucson, AZ; and Window Rock, AZ.
The area offices can be referenced for specific addresses. Some
health professional positions are filled through the Commissioned Corps
of the Public Health Service, a uniformed service of the U.S.
Government. Inquiries may be addressed to the Commissioned Personnel
Management Branch, Room 4B-19. Phone, 301-443-3464.
Publications Single copies of publications describing the Indian Health
Service and the health status of American Indians and Alaska Natives are
available free of charge from the Communications Office, Room 6-35.
Phone, 301-443-3593.
National Institutes of Health
Inquiries on the following subjects may be directed to the office
indicated at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, or
the address given.
Contracts For information on research and development contracts,
contact the Division of Contracts and Grants. Phone, 301-496-6431. For
all other contracts, contact the Division of Procurement. Phone, 301-
496-7488.
Employment A wide range of civil service examinations and registers are
used; staff fellowships are available to recent doctorates in biomedical
sciences; college recruitment is conducted as necessary to meet
requirements. Write to the Office of Information Resources Management.
Phone, 301-496-4197.
PHS Commissioned Officer Program For information on the Commissioned
Officer programs at NIH and the program for early commissioning of
senior medical students in the Reserve Corps of the Public Health
Service, contact the Division of Personnel Management. Phone, 301-496-
4212.
Environment Research on the biological effects of chemical, physical,
and biological substances present in the environment are conducted and
supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences,
Research Triangle Park, NC 22709. Phone, 919-541-3211.
Films Research and health-related films are available for loan from the
National Library of Medicine, Collection Access Section, Bethesda, MD
20984. Films are available for purchase from the National Audiovisual
Center (General Services Administration), Washington, DC 20409.
Publications Publications, brochures, and reports on health and disease
problems, medical research, and biomedical communications are available
from the Division of Public Information, Office of Communications,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 (phone, 301-496-4143);
or Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. Publications
include: Journal of National Cancer Institute; Environmental Health
Perspectives; Scientific Directory and
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Annual Bibliography; NLM--Medline (brochure); and NIH Publications
List. Single copies of these publications are available from NIH. Index
Medicus, Cumulated Index Medicus Annual, and Research Grants Index may
be ordered from the Government Printing Office.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Inquiries on the following subjects may be directed to the specified
office, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 5600
Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.
Contracts Write to the Director, Division of Grants and Contracts
Management. Phone, 301-443-3334.
Employment Inquiries should be addressed to the Director, Division of
Personnel Management. Phone, 301-443-3408.
Publications Write to the Associate Administrator for Communications.
Phone, 301-443-8956.
Health Care Financing Administration
Inquiries on the following subjects may be directed to the Health Care
Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, 7500
Security Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21244-1850.
Contracts and Small Business Activities Contact the Director, Research
Contracts and Grants Division. Phone, 410-786-5157.
Employment Inquiries should be addressed to the Office of Human
Resources, Division of Staffing and Employee Services. Phone, 410-786-
5501. For information on employment in a regional office, contact the
Regional Personnel Officer in the Office of the Regional Director for
that region.
Publications For information on publications, write to the Distribution
Management Branch, Division of Printing and Distribution Services.
Phone, 410-786-7892.
For further information concerning the Department of Health and Human
Services, contact the Information Center, Department of Health and Human
Services, 200 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20201. Phone, 202-
619-0257.