[Federal Register: June 20, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 117)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Guide to Community Preventive Services (GCPS) Task Force: 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 meeting:
Name: Task Force on Community Preventive Services.
Times and Dates: 8 a.m.-6 p.m., June 22, 2005; 8 a.m.-1 p.m.,
June 23, 2005.
Place: Crowne Plaza Atlanta Buckhead 3377 Peachtree Road NE,
Atlanta, Georgia 30326, telephone (404) 264-1111.
Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
Purpose: The mission of the Task Force is to develop and publish
a Guide to Community Preventive Services, which is based on the best
available scientific evidence and current expertise regarding
essential public health and what works in the delivery of those
services.
Matters To Be Discussed: Agenda items include: briefings on
administrative information, marketing plan and current efforts,
update on evaluation of awareness of Community Guide, web-based
abstraction form for systematic reviews, revision and web posting of
the Community Guide protocol manual, discussion about home
visitation programs for violence prevention. Considered reviews and
possible recommendations for the following interventions: Violence
prevention, including: Reducing the harmful consequences of trauma
among juveniles, school violence prevention programs, worksite
health promotion, including: Point-of-decision prompts to increase
stair use: Incentives to stop using tobacco, and reducing
environmental tobacco smoke; HIV risk reduction interventions;
provider assessment and feedback to promote cancer screening.
Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
Contact Person or Additional Information: Peter Briss, M.D.,
Team Leader, Community Guide, Coordinating Center for Health
Information and Service (CoCHIS), National Center for Health
Marking, Division of Scientific Communication, 4770 Buford Highway,
M/S K95, Atlanta, Georgia 770-488-8338. Persons interested in
reserving a space for this meeting should call 770/488-8590 by close
of business on June 21, 2005.
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 CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry.
Dated: June 14, 2005.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 05-12062 Filed 6-17-05; 8:45 am]
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