[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 186 (Monday, September 27, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59277-59278]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-23785]
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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 75 FR 51091-93, dated August 18, 2010) is
amended to reflect the reorganization of the Division of Adult and
Community Health within the National Center for Chronic Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion, Office of Noncommunicable Diseases,
Injury and Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as
follows:
Delete in its entirety the mission statement for the Division of
Adult and Community Health (CUCE) and insert the following.
Division of Adult and Community Health (CUCE). (1) Develops and
promotes community-based interventions and programs; (2) provides
national and international leadership in health education and health
promotion; (3) conducts studies to enhance public health activities in
health services and managed care; (4) manages public health research,
training, cooperative, and intervention activities in diverse settings
such as cities, universities, state health departments, and other
countries; (5) promotes the understanding and improvement of the
determinants and issues related to arthritis, aging, epilepsy, and
emerging chronic disease and health promotion issues; (6) coordinates
activities with other federal, state, and local governmental agencies,
academia, and nongovernmental organizations, in cooperation with other
components of NCCDPHP.
Delete in its entirety the functional statement for the Office of
the Director (CUCE1) and insert the following:
Office of the Director (CUCEI). (1) Manages, coordinates, and
evaluates the activities and programs of the division; (2) ensures that
division activities are coordinated with other components of CDC both
within and outside the center, with federal, state, and local health
agencies, and with voluntary and professional health agencies; (3)
provides leadership and coordinates division responses to requests for
research, consultation, training, collaboration, and technical
assistance or information on managed care, health promotion, aging,
epilepsy, and arthritis; (4) provides administrative, logistical, and
management support for division field staff; (5) provides
administrative and management support for the division including
guidance on the organization of personnel and the use of financial
resources, and oversight of grants, cooperative agreements, contracts,
and reimbursable agreements; (6) provides leadership and technical
assistance to communities to promote policy, systems, and environmental
changes that improve community health; (7) supports a network of
academic researchers, public health agencies, and community members
that conducts applied research in disease prevention and control.
Delete in their entirety the title and functional statement for the
Arthritis, Epilepsy and Quality of Life Branch (CUC[ccedil]) and insert
the following:
State Support, Arthritis, Epilepsy and Quality of Life Branch
(CUCEC). (1) Directs and supports activities to reach people affected
by arthritis and improve their quality of life by fostering public
health science and translating science into population based
interventions; (2) coordinates CDC Preventive Health and Health
Services Block Grant (PHHSBG) activities and develops and administers
guidelines, uniform reporting procedures, and evaluation criteria for
state programs supported by PHHSBG; (3) directs and supports activities
that improve quality of life for people affected by epilepsy, including
improving access to appropriate medical care and self-management
support, improving policy and systems to support people with epilepsy,
supporting surveillance, epidemiologic, and prevention research,
combating stigma and increasing public awareness and knowledge about
epilepsy; (4) directs and administers surveillance efforts that provide
knowledge to influence the public health community to improve health
related quality of life and well-being through public health action;
(5) develops, validates refines and promotes health-related quality of
life and well-being measures for use in surveillance, program planning,
evaluation and public health intervention and policy development; (6)
directs and coordinates the evaluation of community and state-based
intervention programs for arthritis and epilepsy; (7) develops
arthritis and health-related quality of life epidemiology capacity and
other programmatic capabilities in state health department settings;
and (8) disseminates health promotion and disease prevention programs
and information through state and national partners.
Delete item (4) of the functional statement for the Emerging
Investigations and Analytic Methods Branch (CUC1J and insert the
following:
(4) performs research on adverse childhood events, mental health,
and alcohol.
Delete in their entirety the title and functional statement for the
Community Health and Program Services Branch (CUCEG) and insert the
following:
Community Health and Equity Branch (CUCEG). (1) Provides technical
assistance to state and local health agencies, community-based
organizations, academic institutions, and other federal, national, and
international organizations to plan, implement, and evaluate community-
based chronic disease prevention and health promotion programs, with an
emphasis on improving equity and reducing disparities; (2) develops,
implements, and evaluates training in the areas of chronic disease
intervention, social determinants of health, and community health
promotion for state and local health departments, other agencies, and
community organizations; (3) supports health promotion and disease
prevention research conducted at university-based prevention centers;
(4) develops chronic disease epidemiology capacity in state health
departments through training and support of chronic disease field
epidemiologists and other capacity building efforts; (5) provides
professional statistical and programming services to the division,
including assistance in design of data collection instruments, computer
programming, and statistical analysis; (6) provides administrative and
management support for the branch, including oversight of grants,
cooperative agreements, contracts, and reimbursable agreements.
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Dated: September 3, 2010.
William P. Nichols,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2010-23785 Filed 9-24-10; 8:45 am]
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