[Federal Register: June 15, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 114)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of
Authority
Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of
the Department of Health and Human Services (45 FR 67772-76, dated
October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR 69296, October 20, 1980, as
amended most recently at 70 FR 30120-30121, dated May 25, 2005) is
amended to reflect the establishment of the Office of Workforce and
Career Development within the Office of the Director, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as
follows:
After the mission statement for the Office of the Chief Science
Officer (CAS), insert the following:
Office of Workforce and Career Development (CAL). The mission of
the Office of Workforce and Career Development (OWCD) is to improve
health outcomes by ensuring a competent and sustainable workforce
through excellence and innovation in workforce and career development.
In carrying out its mission, OWCD: (1) Develops goals and objectives,
and provides leadership, policy formation, scientific oversight, and
guidance in program planning and development; (2) plans, directs, and
manages CDC-wide training programs, and internship and fellowship
programs; (3) provides consultation, technical assistance, and training
on epidemiology, public health informatics, and prevention
effectiveness to CDC/ATSDR, states, other agencies, other countries,
and domestic and international organizations; (4) develops, designs,
and implements an accredited comprehensive strategic human resource
leadership development and career management program for all
occupational series throughout CDC; organizational development, career
management, employee development, and training; (5) maximizes economies
of scale through systematic planning and evaluation of agency-wide
training initiatives to assist CDC employees in achieving required
competencies; (6) assists in the definition and analysis of training
needs of public health workers, and develops and evaluates
instructional products designed to meet those needs; (7) works with
partners, internally and externally, to develop a strategic vision for
the public health workforce; (8) collaborates with the Office of
Strategy and Innovation (OSI) to develop workforce goals for all of
CDC/ATSDR; (9) coordinates the Excellence in Learning Council to
coordinate, inform, and share strategic vision for all of CDC's
Coordinating Centers/Coordinating Offices (CC/CO); (10) conducts
internal succession planning, forecasting services, and environmental
scanning to ascertain both current and future public health workforce
needs; and (11) in carrying out the above functions, collaborates, as
appropriate, with the CDC Office of the Director, CDC CC/COs, domestic
and international agencies and organizations.
Office of the Director (CAL1). (1) Provides leadership and overall
direction for OWCD; (2) develops goal and objectives, and provides
leadership, policy formation, scientific oversight, and guidance in
program planning and development; (3) plans, coordinates, and develops
research plans for OWCD; (4) provides scientific leadership OWCD
research-related activities; (5) ensures adherence to CDC and HHS
science-related policies, e.g., ethical conduct of research,
information security, extramural research, data sharing; and responds
to allegations of scientific
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misconduct; (6) provides training related to scientific policies; (7)
ensures quality of scientific products developed by OWCD staff; (8)
oversees and manages OWCD clearance process for scientific and
technical documents; (9) oversees and manages OWCD Institutional Review
Board-related activities and procedures; (10) develops policies
governing OWCD's internal and external partnership activities; (11)
coordinates all program reviews including all written and visual
materials; (12) reviews, prepares, and coordinates legislation,
Congressional testimony, and briefing materials; (13) develops proposed
legislation, analyze bills, and provides for other legislative-related
activities; (14) plans and prepares OWCD promotional and marketing
materials; and (15) in carrying out the above functions, collaborates,
as appropriate, with the CDC Office of the Director, CDC CC/COs,
domestic and international agencies and organizations.
Management and Operations Activity (CAL13). (1) Provides
leadership, oversight, and guidance in the management and operations of
OWCD's programs; (2) plans, coordinates, and provides administrative
management support, advice, and guidance to OWCD, involving the areas
of fiscal management, personnel, travel, and other administrative
services; (3) coordinates the development of the OWCD annual budget
submission; (4) directs and coordinates the activities of the office;
(5) conducts management analyses of OWCD programs and staff to ensure
optimal utilization of resources and accomplishment of program
objectives; (6) plans, allocates, and monitors OWCD resources; (7)
maintains liaison and collaborates with other CDC components and
external organizations in support of OWCD management and operations;
(8) works closely with other federal agencies involved with OWCD
interagency agreements; (9) provides fiscal management and stewardship
of grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements; (10) develops and
implements administrative policies, procedures, and operations, as
appropriate for OWCD, and prepares special reports and studies, as
required, in the administrative management areas; (11) provides
coordinated services to OWCD for all conference/meeting management;
(12) coordinates OWCD requirements relating to contracts, grants,
cooperative agreements, reimbursable agreements, procurement, and
materiel management; and (13) in carrying out the above functions,
collaborates, as appropriate, with the CDC Office of the Director, CDC
CC/COs, domestic and international agencies and organizations.
Strategic Workforce Activity (CAL14). (1) Develops strategic vision
for training for CDC/ATSDR; (2) works with partners, internally and
externally, to develop a strategic vision/plan for the public health
workforce; (3) collaborates with the OSI to develop workforce goals for
all of CDC/ATSDR; (4) co-chairs the Excellence in Learning Council to
coordinate, inform, and share strategic vision for all of CDC's CC/COs;
(5) works with the Excellence in Learning Council to develop and
standardize learning policies for CDC/ATSDR; (6) conducts environmental
scanning to ascertain both current and future public health workforce
needs, and establishes priorities for the public health workforce based
on the scanning; (7) provides forecasting services to anticipate the
workforce needs; (8) determines the distribution and impact of best
practices; (9) develops strategic plan for workout development at CDC
and establishes system(s) for monitoring implementation and impact of
this plan; (10) works with Atlanta Human Resources Center and the
Office of the Chief Operating Officer (OCOO) to develop particular
elements for strategic planning of internal succession planning,
workforce retention, targeted recruitment, and change management; (11)
oversees development and implementation of demonstration projects in
the best practices for workforce development and assures dissemination
of results of these projects; (12) establishes policies governing major
learning initiatives, and new learning or partnership activities; (13)
works collaboratively within the OWCD, and with CDC's Office of the
Director, the Financial Management Office, the OCOO, and other
components of CDC in planning, developing, and implementing policies
related to training initiatives, including but not limited to,
Individual Learning Accounts, Individual Development Plans, and loan
repayment programs; (14) provides oversight or serves as a primary
liaison for contracts relating to OWCD policy and partnership
activities; (15) provides leadership, advocacy, and coordination of
learning policies and partnership development activities; and (16) in
carrying out the above functions, collaborates, as appropriate, with
the CDC Office of the Director, CDC CC/COs, domestic and international
agencies and organizations.
Career Development Division (CALC). (1) Plans, directs, and manages
CDC-wide competency-based training and service programs, including the
Epidemic Intelligence Service, the Preventive Medicine Residency,
Public Health Informatics Fellowship, Prevention Effectiveness
Fellowship, the CDC Experience, the Knight Journalism Fellowship, and
the Public Health Prevention Service (PHPS) programs, as well as
various internship and fellowship programs, developing new programs as
strategically indicated; (2) develops and maintains standards,
criteria, and core competencies for fellowship programs across the
agency, ensuring scientific rigor and consistency with adult learning
principles; (3) provides consultation, technical assistance, and
training on epidemiology, public health informatics, and prevention
effectiveness to CDC/ATSDR, states, other agencies, other countries,
and domestic and international organizations; (4) provides
epidemiologic, informatics, decision analysis, and health economics
assistance to states, other agencies, and other countries through the
field assignment of fellows; (5) assumes an active national and
international leadership role in applied public health training and
competency development for the disciplines of epidemiology, informatic,
health economics, and decision sciences; (6) evaluates programs to
ensure training is relevant and responsive to needs of fellows and
health agencies; (7) develops and maintains a strategic plan for
recruitment in accordance with the CDC workforce diversity goals; (8)
evaluates performance and monitors the completion of program
requirements by fellows; (9) receives, coordinates, and approves, as
appropriate, requests for epidemiologic assistance (EPI-AIDs) and the
expenditures of funds; (10) establishes capacity in the public health
community to conduct and use epidemiologic, economic and decision
analysis, and public health informatics; (11) provides and maintains
leadership in the development, acquisition application, and evaluation
of economic and decision science, and informatics methods for use in
public health; (12) provides technical assistance in the area of
economics and economics workforce development throughout CDC and other
organizations; (13) disseminates economic and decision analysis,
informatics, and preventive medicine training materials used in
programs for adaptation and use by the health workforce; and (14) in
carrying out the above functions, collaborates, as appropriate, with
the CDC Office of the Director, CDC CC/COs, domestic and
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international agencies and organizations.
Training and Curriculum Services Division (CALD). (1) Develops,
designs, and implements a comprehensive strategic human resource
leadership development and career management program for all
occupational series throughout CDC; (2) develops and implements
training strategies and activities that contribute to the agency's
mission, accomplishments, and organizational performance; (3) maintains
employee training records; (4) develops and administers intern and
professional development programs, the long-term training program, and
the mentoring program; (5) conducts comprehensive training needs
assessment of CDC employees nationwide; (6) manages the classroom
facilities including establishing policy and scheduling room usage; (7)
provides analysis and data to correlate individual training with
corporate strategic plans; (8) develops and maintains assessment tools
to identify core competency requirements for each occupational series
throughout the agency; (9) provides consultation, guidance, and
technical assistance to managers and employees in organizational
development, career management, employee development, and training;
(10) develops and delivers educational programming to meet the
identified needs of the public health workforce; (11) promotes,
develops, and implements training needs assessment methodology to
establish priorities for training interventions; (12) evaluates the
efficiency and effectiveness of education/training needs assessments,
development of training tools, implementation methods, and the impact
of education/training on the quality of laboratory practice; (13)
designs, produces, and delivers informational and instructional
products; (14) registers participants of laboratory and public health
courses offered by CDC; (15) maximizes economies of scale through
systematic planning and evaluation of agency-wide training initiatives
to assist CDC employees in achieving required competencies; (16)
implements and monitors the CDC Training Management System (Learning
Management System) for compliance with the Government Employees
Training Act; (17) assists in the definition and analysis of training
needs of public health workers, and develops and evaluates
instructional products designed to meet those needs; (18) develops and
maintains continuing education unit accreditation; (19) designs,
produces and delivers a variety of visual materials and instructional
products; (20) develops and conducts training to facilitate the timely
transfer of newly emerging laboratory technology and standards for
laboratory practice; (21) provides technical assistance, consultation,
and training for trainers to improve the capacity of regional
organizations and state health agencies to develop and maintain
decentralized training networks for laboratory professionals; (22)
fosters communications to assist regional, state, and local health
agencies in the identification and utilization of laboratory resources
in support of the Nation's health objectives; (23) provides technical
assistance and consultation for programs at the national, state,
regional and international levels to develop the leadership and
management competencies of current and emerging public health
officials, including, but not limited to, the National Public Health
Leadership Institute and the Management Academy for Public Health; and
(24) in carrying out the above functions, collaborates, as appropriate,
with the CDC Office of the Director, CDC CC/COs, domestic and
international agencies and organizations.
Dated: June 3, 2005.
William H. Gimson,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
[FR Doc. 05-11795 Filed 6-14-05; 8:45 am]
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