[Federal Register: September 30, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 188)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Renewal of Charter for the Secretary's Advisory Committee on
National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2020
AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the
Secretary, Office of Public Health and Science, Office of Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: As stipulated by the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as
amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services is hereby announcing that the charter for the Secretary's
Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Objectives for 2020 (Healthy People 2020 Advisory Committee; HPAC) has
been renewed.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Emmeline Ochiai, Executive Secretary,
Secretary's Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease
Prevention Objectives for 2020, Department of Health and Human
Services, Office of Public Health and Science, Office of Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion, 1101 Wootton Parkway, Room LL-100,
Rockville, MD 20852; Telephone: (240) 453-8259; Fax (240) 453-8281.
Additional information is available on the Internet at http://
www.healthypeople.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Every ten years, through the Healthy People
initiative, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
leverages scientific insights and lessons from the past decade, along
with the new knowledge of current data, trends, and innovations to
develop the next iteration of the national health promotion and disease
prevention objectives. Healthy People provides science-based, ten-year
national objectives for promoting health and preventing disease. Since
1980, Healthy People has set and monitored national health objectives
to meet a broad range of health needs, encourage collaborations across
sectors, guide individuals toward making informed health decisions, and
measure the impact of our prevention and health promotion activities.
Healthy People 2020 will reflect assessment of major risks to health
and wellness, changing public health priorities, and emerging
technologies related to our nation's health preparedness and
prevention.
The Committee will continue to provide advice and consultation to
the Secretary of Health and Human Services for developing and
implementing the next iteration of the national health promotion and
disease prevention goals and objectives and provide recommendations for
initiatives to occur during the implementation phase of the goals and
objectives. HHS will use the recommendations to form the development of
the national health promotion and disease prevention objectives for
2020 and the process for implementing the objectives. The intent is to
develop and launch objectives designed to improve the health status and
reduce health risks for Americans by the year 2020. Renewal of the HPAC
charter provides authorization for the Committee to operate until
September 4,
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2011. A copy of the Committee charter can be obtained by contacting the
Committee's Executive Secretary. A copy of the Committee charter also
can be obtained by accessing the FACA database that is maintained by
the Committee Management Secretariat under the General Services
Administration. The Web site address for the FACA database is http://
fido.gov/facadatabase.
Dated: September 23, 2009.
Penelope Slade-Sawyer,
RADM, USPHS, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health (Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion), Office of Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion.
[FR Doc. E9-23539 Filed 9-29-09; 8:45 am]
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