[Federal Register: September 16, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 179)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices: Meeting

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) announces the following Federal Committee meeting.

    Name: Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
    Times and Dates:
8:30 am-5 pm, October 15, 2003
8 am-2:30 pm, October 16, 2003
    Place: Atlanta Marriott Century Center, 2000 Century Boulevard, 
NE., Atlanta, Georgia 30345-3377.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
    Purpose: The Committee is charged with advising the Director, 
CDC, on the appropriate uses of immunizing agents. In addition, 
under 42 U.S.C. 1396s, the Committee is mandated to establish and 
periodically review and, as appropriate, revise the list of vaccines 
for administration to vaccine-eligible children through the Vaccines 
for Children (VFC) program, along with schedules regarding the 
appropriate periodicity, dosage, and contraindications applicable to 
the vaccines.
    Matters to be Discussed: The Agenda will include discussions on 
the smallpox civilian program; Department of Defense Smallpox 
Vaccine Update; report from the smallpox vaccine safety working 
group; consideration for the timing of revaccination for smallpox; 
site care for non-health care workers; recommended childhood and 
adolescent immunization schedule; briefing on IOM report; influenza 
vaccine recommendation; pneumococcal conjugate vaccine; VFC Vote on 
Hepatitis B Vaccine; Federal Advisory Stakeholder Engagement Survey 
Results; working group and Departmental updates.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    For Further Information Contact: Demetria Gardner, Epidemiology 
and Surveillance Division, National Immunization Program, CDC, 1600 
Clifton Road, NE, (E-61), Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone 404/639-
8096, fax 404/639-8616.
    The Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, has been 
delegated the authority to sign Federal Register notices pertaining 
to announcements of meetings and other committee management 
activities for both the CDC and ATSDR.

    Dated: September 9, 2003.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 03-23538 Filed 9-15-03; 8:45 am]

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