[Federal Register: January 31, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 20)]
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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 72842-72843, dated December 7, 2005) is
amended to reflect the establishment of the Division for Heart Disease
and Stroke Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Delete in its entirety the title and functional statement for the
Cardiovascular Health Branch (CL33), Division of Adult and Community
Health (CL3).
After the mission statement for the Program Services Branch
(CUCLD), Office of Smoking and Health (CUCL), insert the following:
Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (CUCM). (1) Plans,
directs, and coordinates programs to reduce morbidity, risk factors,
costs, disability, mortality, and disparities associated with heart
disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular disease outcomes; (2)
provides national leadership, technical assistance, expert
consultation, and training to state and local health agencies in
intervention, surveillance, evaluation, and communication or marketing
activities related to implementing state programs, registries, and
other surveillance systems associated with reducing and preventing
cardiovascular disease outcomes; (3) provides national leadership and
coordination of the agency-wide cardiovascular collaborative; (4)
implements surveillance systems and conducts surveillance of outcomes
and utilization of health care and prevention resources related to
heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and other
cardiovascular diseases to monitor trends and evaluate program impact
on morbidity, mortality, risk factor improvement, cost, disability, and
disparities; (5) conducts epidemiologic studies and disseminates
findings to identify emerging risk factors with potential for
prevention and control strategies; (6) conducts prevention research
studies and disseminates findings to identify and evaluate the
feasibility and effectiveness of potential prevention and control
strategies in health care systems and at the community level; (7)
identifies, implements, and evaluates programs to prevent and control
heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, other
cardiovascular disease outcomes, and disparities through the
translation and communication of best practices in health care and risk
factor prevention into widespread health systems policies and community
changes; (8) collaborates with other
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cardiovascular health related activities at CDC, including the Lipid
Standardization Program, within the National Center for Environmental
Health/Division of Laboratory Sciences, and the Thrombosis Lab, within
the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities/
Division of Hematologic Diseases; (9) maintains liaison and
collaborative relationships with official, private, voluntary agencies,
educational institutions, or other groups involved in the prevention
and control of heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases
or risk factors; (10) provides technical assistance and consultation to
other nations and to the World Health Organization in the global
prevention and control of cardiovascular disease.
Office of the Director (CUCM1). (1) Establishes and interprets
policies and determines program priorities; (2) provides leadership and
guidance in program planning and development, program management,
program evaluation, budget development, and division operations; (3)
monitors progress toward achieving division objectives and assessing
the impact of programs; (4) insures that division activities are
coordinated with other components of CDC both within and outside the
center, with Federal, state and local agencies, and related voluntary
and professional organizations; (5) coordinates division responses to
requests for technical assistance or information on primary and
secondary heart disease and stroke prevention practices, behaviors and
policies, including division activities and programs; (6) serves as the
co-lead for the Healthy People 2010 heart disease and stroke objectives
for the nation; (7) provides national leadership in coordinating and
implementing activities to support a public health action plan to
prevent heart disease and stroke; (8) develops and produces
communications tools and public affairs strategies to meet the needs of
division programs and mission; (9) develops health communication
campaigns at the national and state levels; (10) guides the production
and distribution of print, broadcast, and electronic materials for use
in programs at the national and state levels; (11) provides leadership,
consultation and technical assistance on health communication issues
for heart disease and stroke prevention; (12) reports accomplishments,
future directions, and resource requirements; (13) provides program
management and administrative support services; (14) represents the
division at official professional and scientific meetings.
Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch (CUCMB). (1) Monitors the
epidemiology of cardiovascular disease risk factors, behaviors,
outcomes, costs, barriers, awareness, access to care, geographic
variations and disparities; (2) prepares routine surveillance reports
of national and state trends in cardiovascular disease risk factors,
behaviors, outcomes, and disparities, which includes the mapping of
geographic variations; (3) develops, designs, implements, and evaluates
new cardiovascular disease registries and other surveillance systems
that address gaps in existing CDC surveillance systems; (4) prepares
epidemiologic and scientific papers for publication in medical and
public health journals and for presentation to national public health
and scientific conferences on surveillance and epidemiologic findings;
(5) identifies, investigates, implements, and evaluates new
surveillance methodologies and technologies that involve electronic
data abstraction and transfer to State and national registries and
spatial analysis; (6) proposes and serves as technical advisers and
project officers for epidemiologic research projects that fill gaps in
surveillance and intervention and investigates emerging risk factors
that will lead to the prevention of cardiovascular disease and the
elimination of disparities in cardiovascular disease; (7) serves as
scientific and technical experts in cardiovascular disease epidemiology
and surveillance methodology to state health departments or to advisory
groups at the national/international level; (8) provides scientific
leadership in the development, extension, and improvement of
surveillance systems, epidemiologic strategies, and/or service to
cardiovascular health programs; (9) facilitates integration of
epidemiology and surveillance across the division.
Applied Research and Evaluation Branch (CUCMC). (1) Develops a
comprehensive applied research and translation agenda, including
evaluation, research and health economic research; (2) plans, develops,
and implements projects related to applied research, evaluation
research, and health economics research; (3) prepares scientific papers
for publication in public health media journals and for presentation at
national and international conferences, meetings and seminars on
applied research, evaluation research and health economics research;
(4) synthesizes a body of best science and practice that can be applied
to various public health settings; (5) prepares and disseminates
products that translate applied research, evaluation research, and
health economics science to state programs and other; (6) develops a
comprehensive division evaluation plan addressing all facets of
division activities, including state-based program evaluation, research
evaluation, and evaluation training needs; (7) provides applied
research, evaluation, and health economics expertise and technical
assistance to the division, center, CDC, and national and international
partners.
Program Development and Services Branch (CUCMD). (1) Provides
programmatic leadership and support for state-based heart disease and
stroke prevention programs; (2) provides comprehensive technical advice
and assistance in planning, developing and evaluating the state
programs; (3) provides program policies and guidance outlining CDC's
role and the national goals and objectives of the State Heart Disease
and Stroke Prevention Program; (4) reviews and monitors the state
cooperative agreements and other appropriate grantees; (5) serves as
technical experts in the implementation of policy and environmental
strategies for health promotion, primary and secondary prevention of
heart disease and stroke for states, within CDC and with partners; (6)
provides comprehensive training expertise, including distance learning,
training seminars, meetings, state success documents, and other
materials to promote the programs and assist state grantees with
planning and implementation of a state-based program; (7) implements
and monitors management information systems for state heart disease and
stroke prevention programs to monitor the national progress toward
achieving Health People 2010 and division goals; (8) obtains, analyzes,
and disseminates, data from state-based heart disease and stroke
prevention programs to develop operational strategies for translation
of results into improved program practice; (9) provides leadership in
the development of partnerships between state programs and
organizations at the national and state level; (10) provides technical
assistance to state programs on use of data and other basic areas of
epidemiology; (11) develops systematic processes for providing state
program guidance through determining and disseminating promising
program intervention practices and providing opportunities for states
to share information and tools for program improvement; (12) partners
with national organizations that can assist states with priority
activities; (13)
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provides leadership; and technical expertise, in women's cardiovascular
health, health disparities and healthcare interventions for
cardiovascular primary and secondary prevention programs as it relates
to the Well-Integrated Screening and Evaluation for Women Across the
National (WISEWOMAN) Program; (14) develops and implements CDC programs
and research that impact heart disease and stroke risk factors in
financially vulnerable, uninsured and underinsured women aged 40-64;
(15) facilitates the integration of program services across the
division.
Dated: January 20, 2006.
William H. Gimson,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
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