[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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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.


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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, 
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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 
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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, 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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 
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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, 
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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 
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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.