[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 2 (Monday, January 5, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 230]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-34238]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Meeting
The National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) of the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces the following
workshop.
Name: Workshop on Public and Occupational Health Concerns at Rocky
Flats, Colorado.
Time and Date: 3 p.m.-9 p.m., January 7, 1998.
Place: Doubletree Hotel, 8773 Yates Drive, Westminster, Colorado
80030-3678, telephone 303/427-4000.
Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
The meeting room accommodates approximately 100 people.
Purpose: The purpose of this workshop is to provide guidance to
public health researchers on the inclusion of communities in the
planning, conduct, and application of research.
History has demonstrated, when medical and public health science is
planned and conducted in the absence of considering the social context
of its work, people have been harmed. As a result, society has
responded with laws and regulations to protect human subjects who
participate in research. Lacking in this discussion has been the issue
of planning and conducting research that involves and impacts
communities. This workshop will provide a unique opportunity to open
dialogue between government, communities, and researchers. This
dialogue should result in a proposed framework through which CDC
promotes public health, advances democratic principles, establishes an
ethical basis for community-based research, enhances scientific
credibility, and provides mechanisms for building public trust while
advancing the science of public health.
Matters to be Discussed: Agenda items will include presentations on
the Dose Reconstruction Project, the National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health studies, and the Workers Medical
Surveillance project. Time will be set aside for public comments and
discussions, with Agency staff, followed by the workshop being divided
into breakout sessions: (1) Environmental Health Issues and (2)
Occupational Health Issues.
Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
Contact Persons for More Information: Michael J. Sage, Deputy
Chief, Radiation Studies Branch (RSB), or Carolyn M. Hart, RSB,
Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects, NCEH, CDC, 4770
Buford Highway, NE, (F-35), Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 770/
488-7040, FAX 770/488-7044.
Dated: December 30, 1997.
Julia M. Fuller,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 97-34238 Filed 12-31-97; 12:53 pm]
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