[Federal Register: October 6, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 193)]
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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 55859-55860, dated September 23, 2005)
is amended to reflect the establishment of the Coordinating Office for
Global Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as
follows:
Delete in its entirety the title and functional statement for the
Office of Global Health (CAB).
After the mission statement for the Coordinating Center for
Infectious Diseases (CV), insert the following:
Coordinating Office for Global Health (CW). The mission of the
Coordinating Office of Global Health (COGH) is to provide leadership
and work with partners around the globe to: (1) Increase life
expectancy and years of quality life, especially among those at highest
risk for premature death, particularly vulnerable children and women,
and (2) increase the global preparedness to prevent and control
naturally-occurring and man-made threats to health. To carry out its
mission, COGH (1) fosters collaborations, partnerships, integration,
and resource leveraging to increase the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention's (CDC) health impact and achieve global health goals; (2)
assesses
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evolving global health issues; (3) provides strategic direction to
support CDC's global health activities; (4) identifies and develops
activities where CDC's technical expertise maximizes public health
impact; (5) stimulates research and program development by
disseminating information acquired through ongoing global health
initiatives; (6) strengthens global capacity in areas such as public
health workforce and systems development; and (7) coordinates cross-
cutting CDC global health activities.
Office of the Director (CWA). (1) Manages, directs, and coordinates
the activities of the office; (2) provides global business management
and strategic planning support to achieve its objectives with
measurable results; (3) provides leadership in the formulation and
implementation of CDC's global health strategy, and facilitates the
development of strategic partnerships in support of the goals; (4)
coordinates CDC's legislative agenda and activities related to global
public health; (5) provides leadership in policy formation, program
operations, strategic direction, and fiscal oversight; (6) administers
CDC's global disease detection program through coordination with
relevant implementing programs; (7) coordinates CDC's global science
and public health practice activities; (8) formulates and implements
CDC's strategy for global workforce and career development; and (9)
coordinates global health communication issues across CDC.
Office of Capacity Development and Program Coordination (CWB). The
Office of Capacity Development and Program Coordination provides
agency-wide leadership and coordination to strengthen, assist, and
facilitate the implementation of global programs through the Division
of Epidemiology and Surveillance Capacity Development and the
Sustainable Management Development Program.
Office of the Director (CWB1). (1) Provides leadership and overall
direction for the office; (2) provides leadership and guidance on
global health program coordination, policy, program planning, program
management, operations, and monitoring; (3) provides liaison with other
CDC coordinating centers/coordinating offices, national centers, other
federal agencies, national ministries of health, and international
organizations; and (4) strengthens global public health capacity in the
areas of informatics, laboratory, science, program management,
epidemiology, and surveillance.
Sustainable Management Development Program (CWB12). (1) Strengthens
public health management training capacity by developing a global
network of professional management trainers skilled in evidence-based
decision-making; (2) conducts needs assessment/planning for the
development of regional/national training programs; (3) provides
leadership in faculty development in Atlanta; (4) provides or
facilities in-country technical assistance for regional/national
training programs; (5) provides or facilities support for evaluation
and sustainability of management training programs; and (6)
collaborates within CDC, and with other national or international-based
organizations in support of the Sustainable Management Development
Program's mission.
Division of Epidemiology and Surveillance Capacity Development
(CWBB). (1) Contributes to improving the health of the people of the
United States (U.S.) and other nations by partnering with other
national agencies and international organizations to build strong,
transparent, and sustained public health systems; assesses, develops,
promotes, and strengthens public health systems through training,
consultation, capacity building, and other assistance in applied
epidemiology, public health surveillance, evaluation, instructional
design, and other disciplines needed for health policy formulation,
allocation of health resources, direction, and evaluation of public
health program operations and effectiveness; (2) provides input into
Office of Capacity Development and Program Coordination and COGH policy
on health system strengthening and sustainability; and (3) collaborates
with other CDC organizations, US government agencies, international
agencies, foreign governments, and non-profit organizations in support
of COGH's goals and activities.
Office of the Director (CWBB1). (1) Provides leadership and overall
direction for the division; (2) provides leadership and guidance on
policy, program planning, program management, and operations; (3)
plans, allocates, and monitors resources; (4) provides leadership and
management oversight in assisting national ministries of health,
international agencies, and non-profit organizations in the delivery of
epidemiologic services and the development of international
epidemiologic networks; and (5) provides liaison with other CDC
organizations, other federal agencies, national ministries of health,
and international organizations.
Capacity Development Branch (CWBBC). (1) With partners, designs and
conducts evidence-based instruction in public health disciplines needed
to strengthen their public health systems, including instructional
design, epidemiology, surveillance, communications, and economic
evaluation; (2) provides consultation to ministries of health in
development of surveillance systems (e.g. Integrated Disease
Surveillance, injury, chronic diseases, infectious diseases, etc.); (3)
creates and maintains computer-based and distance-based learning
methods, and develops the capacity of partners to create, evaluate, and
share their own; (4) develops and evaluates competency-based training
materials; (5) maintains divisional training material library and
website; and (6) collaborates within CDC and with other national or
international-based organizations in development of competency-based
training materials, evaluation of training, and design of surveillance
systems needed to accomplish the mission.
Program Development Branch (CWBBC). (1) Assists partners to assess
their needs for health systems strengthening; (2) plans, directs,
supports, and coordinates field epidemiology and laboratory training
programs, Data for Decision Making Projects, and other partnerships
with ministries of health; (3) provides leadership and management
oversight in assisting ministries of health in training of
epidemiologists and other health professionals through the development
of competency-based, residency-style, applied training programs; (4)
provides leadership and expertise in assisting national ministries of
health to utilize trained public health workers for developing health
policy, and implementing and evaluating health programs; (5) assigns
and manages expert consultants as long-term, in-country advisors to
ministry of healthy programs; and (6) collaborates within CDC and with
other national and international organizations in support of partner
programs.
Office of Global Program Support Services (CWC). The Office of
Global Program Support Services provides agency-wide leadership and
support for assignments, systems, and operations in the implementing of
the global health initiatives. The office's function will provide the
foundation for the development and application of consistent and
equitable assignments, systems, and operational policies.
Office of the Director (CWC1). (1) Advises the COGH Director on
important issues related to assignments,
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systems, and operations for international activities impacting
programmatic implementation; (2) serves as the focal point for CDC
international assignees and travelers; (3) coordinates the operational
support services for CDC programs; (4) coordinates and documents
international management policy agency-wide with the Department of
Health and Human Services and with the Department of State,
ascertaining the need for, and proposing, administrative improvements
and legislative requirements to improve operations and avoid management
problems; (5) coordinates development of policies for overseas
management, locally employed staff, and overseas travel; (6) provides
government-wide leadership for the working group for the interagency
system for management of shared administrative support services
(ICASS), overseas building operations and rightsizing liaison, capital
security cost sharing reconciliation, and property management
(inventory, government-owned vehicles, property management, furniture,
furnishing, appliances, equipment); (6) in carrying out the above
responsibilities, coordinates activities with coordinating centers/
offices/implementing programs, the Office of Global Health Affairs,
other governmental and non-governmental organizations, and other
partners, as appropriate; (7) administers exchange visitor program,
short-term visitors, and immigration activities for CDE; (8)
coordinates processes for all overseas staff assignments including
family support; and (9) provides agency-wide passport, visa, and
clearance services.
Dated: September 2, 2005.
William H. Gimson,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
[FR Doc. 05-20058 Filed 10-5-05; 8:45 am]
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