[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 84 (Monday, May 2, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24491-24493]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-10503]
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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 76 FR 15984-15985, dated March 22, 2011) is
amended to reflect the reorganization of the National Center for
Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Office of Infectious Diseases,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as
follows: Delete in its entirety the function statements for the
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease (CVG) and the
Office of the Director (CVG1) and insert the following:
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (CVG).
The National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD)
prevents disease, disability, and death through immunization and by
control of respiratory and related diseases. In carrying out its
mission, NCIRD: (1) Provides leadership, expertise, and service in
laboratory and epidemiological sciences, and in immunization program
delivery; (2) conducts applied research on disease prevention and
control; (3) translates research findings into public health policies
and practices; (4) provides diagnostic and reference laboratory
services to relevant partners; (5) conducts surveillance and research
to determine disease distribution, determinants, and burden nationally
and internationally; (6) responds to disease outbreaks domestically and
abroad; (7) ensures that public health decisions are made objectively
and based upon the highest quality of scientific data; (8) provides
technical expertise, education, and training to domestic and
international partners; (9) provides leadership to internal and
external partners for establishing and maintaining immunization, and
other prevention and control programs; (10) develops, implements, and
evaluates domestic and international public health policies; (11)
communicates information to increase awareness,
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knowledge, and understanding of public health issues domestically and
internationally, and to promote effective immunization programs; (12)
aligns the national center focus with the overall strategic goals of
CDC; and (13) implements, coordinates, and evaluates programs across
NCIRD, Office of Infectious Diseases (OID), and CDC to optimize public
health impact.
Office of the Director (CVG1). (1) Provides leadership, expertise,
and service in laboratory and epidemiological sciences and in
immunization program delivery; (2) provides diagnostic and reference
laboratory services to relevant partnerships; (3) works with OID to
ensure spending plans, budget planning, and budget execution are in
line with the overall infectious disease strategies and priorities; (4)
ensures that the NCIRD strategy is executed by the divisions and
aligned with overall CDC goals; (5) co-develops execution strategies
for the center with the division directors; (6) provides program and
science quality oversight; (7) builds leadership at the division and
branch levels; (8) evaluates the strategies, focus, and prioritization
of the division research, program, and budget activities; (9)
identifies and coordinates synergies between center and relevant
partners; (10) ensures that policy development is consistent and
appropriate; (11) facilitates research and program activities by
providing leadership support; (12) proposes resource priorities
throughout the budget cycle; (13) ensures scientific quality, ethics,
and regulatory compliance; (14) fosters an integrated approach to
research, program, and policy activities; (15) liaises with HHS and
other domestic and international immunization and respiratory disease
partners as well as with NCIRD divisions; (16) coordinates center's
emergency response activities related to immunization issues and
complex acute respiratory infectious disease emergencies; (17) applies
communication science, media principles, and web design to support
NCIRD and CDC's efforts to reduce morbidity and mortality caused by
vaccine-preventable and respiratory diseases; ensuring that
communication distributed by the center is timely, accurate, clear and
relevant to intended audiences; (18) provides guidance for key
scientific and laboratory services in the functional areas of
extramural research (research and non-research), human studies
oversight and review, regulatory affairs; activities in the area of
space planning, advising, coordination and evaluation, safety
management and coordination, and shared services in controlled
correspondence, and programmatic services in the area of workforce and
career development; (19) provides and coordinates center-wide
administrative, management, and support services in the areas of fiscal
management, personnel, travel, procurement, facility management, the
Vaccine Management Improvement Project and other administrative
services; and (20) manages the coordination of workforce development
and succession planning activities and provide human capital
management, planning and training consultation services.
Office of Informatics (CVG12). (1) Manages all IT project costs,
schedules, performances, and risks; (2) provides expertise in leading
application development techniques in information science and
technology to affect the best use of resources; (3) performs technical
evaluation and/or integrated baseline reviews of all information
systems' products and services prior to procurement to ensure software
purchases align with OID strategy; (4) provides access to quality data
in support of programmatic data analysis; (5) coordinates all
enterprise-wide IT security policies and procedures with the Office of
the Chief Information Security Officer; (6) ensures operations are in
accordance with CDC Capital Planning and Investment Control guidelines;
(7) ensures adherence to CDC enterprise architecture guidelines and
standards; (8) consults with users to determine IT needs and to develop
strategic and action plans; and (9) participates in the evolution,
identification, development, or adoption of appropriate informatics
standards in conjunction with the OID.
Office of Policy (CVG13). (1) Serves as liaison with CDC/OD and
other Centers/Institutes/Offices (CIO) policy offices, other government
agencies, and external partners on policy, program, legislative, and
budgetary issues related to NCIRD; (2) leads annual NCIRD budget
formulation and development of appropriations materials; (3) provides
expertise and guidance for strategic planning and performance
measurement; (4) oversees and coordinates NCIRD accountability
activities, including Government Accountability Office and Inspector
General studies, audits and reviews; (5) coordinates NCIRD OMB
Paperwork Reduction Act clearances for non-immunization waiver
activities; (6) conducts legislative monitoring and analysis; (7)
provides NCIRD with leadership and advice in the management of
Congressional and governmental relations; (8) serves as liaison to the
CDC Office of Women's Health Committee and the CDC/ATSDR Minority
Initiatives Coordinating Committee; (9) supports the NCIRD divisions
with developing appropriate policy capacity; and (10) manages cross-
cutting policy issues within NCIRD and, as appropriate, with other CIO
and OD offices within CDC.
Office of Laboratory Science (CVG14). (1) Provides leadership,
expertise and service in laboratory science; (2) represents NCIRD's
interests in cross-cutting laboratory services in OID which include,
but are not limited to, laboratory information systems, quality
management systems and bioinformatics; (3) ensures a safe working
environment in NCIRD laboratories; (4) collaborates effectively with
other centers and offices in carrying out its functions; and (5)
manages CDC's intellectual property (e.g., patents, trademarks,
copyrights) and promotes the transfer of new technology from CDC
research to the private sector to facilitate and enhance the
development of diagnostic products, vaccines, and products to improve
occupational safety.
Office of Health Communications Science (CVG15). (1) Support
NCIRD's mission through the planning, development, implementation and
evaluation of science-based health communication activities and
programs; (2) applies communication science, media principles, and web
design to support NCIRD and CDC's efforts to reduce morbidity and
mortality caused by vaccine-preventable and respiratory diseases; (3)
ensures that communication distributed by the center is timely,
accurate, clear and relevant to intended audiences; (4) conducts
projects that translate scientific and medical information into
messages for a variety of audiences using an array of media/formats;
(5) improves understanding of vaccine benefits and risks among
partners, health care providers and public audiences; (6) improves
understanding among specialized audiences such as policy-makers, public
health officials nationally and internally of the center's work; (7)
supports public health partners via technical assistance and other
methods; (8) demonstrates best practices in writing using plain
language and health literacy principles, creating culturally
appropriate materials; and (9) coordinates CDC's pandemic influenza
communication preparedness activities.
Office of Administrative Services (CVG16). (1) Provides direct and
daily management and execution of domestic
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travel processing for federal employees, Commissioned Corps and all
CDC-invited guests; (2) provides direct management and execution of the
administrative aspects of human resources across NCIRD, including
training, and administration of policies and guidelines developed by
Office of Human Resources, Atlanta Operations Center, Department of
Health and Human Services, CDC Ethics Office, Financial Management
Office, Office of Commissioned Corps Personnel, Center for Global
Health, Office of Personnel Management, and Procurement and Grants
Office; (3) provides direct management and execution of the
coordination of office facilities, and supplies technical guidance and
expertise regarding occupancy and facilities management to emergency
situations; (4) provides direct and daily management and execution of
the distribution, accountability and maintenance of CDC property and
equipment; (5) provides direct management and execution of procurement
requisitions, and contracts and performs administrative tasks related
to initiating, processing and maintaining interagency agreements; (6)
provides direct management and execution of the creation, organization,
access, maintenance and disposition of CDC records, and of the
establishment of policies and procedures coordinating a NCIRD response
to Freedom of Information Act requests; and (7) provides direct
management and execution of the coordination of logistics for Federal
government committee meetings and NCIRD conferences.
Office of Science and Integrated Programs (CVG17). (1) Links
strategies and priorities of the primarily programmatic-focused NCIRD
divisions with those of primarily disease-based divisions; (2)
facilitates development and ongoing implementation of integrated
infectious respiratory disease (including influenza) surveillance,
research, and prevention and control activities across the divisions,
both domestically and globally, including supporting implementation of
NCIRD's respiratory diseases strategic prevention priorities; (3)
interfaces with other CDC CIOs working in the area of respiratory
diseases; (4) coordinates and facilitates the center's overall
respiratory and vaccine preventable disease scientific/research agenda;
(5) assumes responsibility for the protection of human research
subjects, scientific review, clearance of manuscripts and other written
materials; (6) provides planning and coordination of overall
surveillance strategies, preparedness, response, and prevention
effectiveness related to a center-wide public health scientific agenda
and in quantifying how programs and activities promote cost-effective
and high impact prevention strategies with respect to immunization and
other vaccine preventable disease programs; (7) provides leadership
(agency and center-wide) for vaccine preventable and respiratory
disease surveillance to include guidance and coordination of NCIRD
surveillance activities and systems, as well as leadership on issues
related to internal and external integration of CDC surveillance
activities; (8) coordinates, facilitates and integrates domestic and
international respiratory and vaccine preventable disease surveillance
activities through existing methods while developing new approaches,
tools and analyses for these activities; (9) fosters a
multidisciplinary approach to epidemiology, statistics, informatics,
laboratory methods and evaluation; (10) facilitates cross-cutting
health services research and economic analyses in the area of vaccine
preventable and respiratory diseases and immunization programs and
their impact on and relationships to health insurance reform; (11)
provides leadership in developing a center-wide prevention
effectiveness priority agenda and facilitates the development and
ongoing implementation of integrated modeling activities; (12) provides
leadership in facilitating the development and implementation of the
center's overarching influenza surveillance, research, and prevention
strategy (pandemic and seasonal); and (13) provides leadership across
the divisions with respect to linking preparedness and response
elements to the overall influenza prevention and control strategy, and
interfaces with other parts of CDC with respect to this strategy.
Dated: April 19, 2011.
James D. Seligman,
Acting Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2011-10503 Filed 4-29-11; 8:45 am]
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