[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 192 (Friday, October 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 51872]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-26243]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Announces
the Following Workshop
Name: Workshop on Enhancing Community Participation to Restore
Public Trust and Improve Science in Health Research.
Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., October 16, 1997. 8 a.m.-4:45
p.m., October 17, 1997.
Place: CDC, Auditorium A, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, Georgia
30333.
Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
The meeting room accommodates approximately 100 people.
Purpose: The primary 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 include: identifying
strategies for partnering with communities in research and overcoming
distrust; legacy from the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis; review
of human subjects protection; role of the community in protecting human
subjects; assets that communities bring to research; and assets that
researchers bring to communities.
After the above comments and discussions, the workshop will be
divided into five breakout sessions which will include: (I) Strategies,
Issues, and Barriers; (II) Research Design Scenarios; (III) Critique of
Strategies Elicited in Breakout Session II; (IV) Community Concerns and
Issues; and (V) Final Recommendations.
Contact Persons for More Information: Michael J. Sage, Deputy
Chief, Radiation Studies Branch, Division of Environmental Hazards and
Health Effects, National Center for Environmental Health, CDC, 4770
Buford Highway, NE (F-35), Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 770/
488-7040, FAX 770/488-7044; or Kate M. MacQueen, Ph.D., Division of
HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention,
CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, NE (E-45), Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone
404/639-6146, FAX 404/639-6129.
Dated: September 29, 1997.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 97-26243 Filed 10-2-97; 8:45 am]
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