[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 208 (Thursday, October 28, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 58068]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-28135]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control: Meeting
In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) announces the following committee meeting.
Name: Advisory Committee for Injury Prevention and Control
(ACIPC).
Times and Dates: 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m., November 16, 1999; 8:30
a.m.-3:15 p.m., November 17, 1999.
Place: Holiday Inn Select Atlanta-Decatur Hotel and Conference
Plaza, 130 Clairemont Avenue, Decatur, Georgia 30030.
Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
Purpose: The Committee advises and makes recommendations to the
Secretary, the Assistant Secretary for Health, and the Director,
CDC, regarding feasible goals for the prevention and control of
injury. The Committee makes recommendations regarding policies,
strategies, objectives, and priorities, and reviews progress toward
injury prevention and control. The Committee provides advice on the
appropriate balance of intramural and extramural research, and also
provides guidance on the needs, structure, progress and performance
of intramural programs, and on extramural scientific program
matters. The Committee provides second-level scientific and
programmatic review for applications for research grants,
cooperative agreements, and training grants related to injury
control and violence prevention, and recommends approval of projects
that merit further consideration for funding support. The Committee
also recommends areas of research to be supported by contracts and
cooperative agreements and provides concept review of program
proposals and announcements.
Matters to be Discussed: The purpose of the November 16 meeting
is for the Science and Program Review Work Group (SPRWG) to review
program oversight issues which include discussions on the
biomechanics review; non-Office of Research Grants/National Center
for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) extramural fiscal year
1999 awards; BioCAD and whiplash projects; Injury Control Research
Center request for proposals; and NCIPC research agenda. At the
November 17 meeting of the full Committee, following introduction of
the new NCIPC Acting Director, and the Acting Director's update on
NCIPC, discussions will include (1) A strategic planning update; (2)
NCIPC Division of Violence Prevention update on youth violence and
suicide prevention efforts; reports from the November 16 meetings of
the (3) Subcommittee on Family and Intimate Violence Prevention and
(4) SPRWG; and (5) NCIPC Research priorities.
Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
Contact person for more information: Mr. Wayne Stephens,
Executive Secretary, ACIPC, NCIPC, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, M/S
K61, Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 770/488-1465.
The Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, has been
delegated the authority to sign Federal Register notices pertaining
to announcements of meetings and other committee management
activities, for both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Dated: October 21, 1999.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 99-28135 Filed 10-27-99; 8:45 am]
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