97-29970. The National Immunization Program (NIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Meeting

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


The National Immunization Program (NIP) of the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Meeting

    Name: Adolescent Immunization Meeting.
    Time and Date: 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. December 4, 1997.
    Place: J.W. Marriott Hotel, Lenox, 3300 Lenox Road, NE Atlanta, 
Georgia 30326. Telephone [phone], fax [phone].
    Status: The meeting is open to the public subject to the 
availability of conference room space. The meeting will be a round 
table discussion with public and private medical providers and 
experts who deal with adolescent health and immunization issues. 
Written comments will be accepted during the meeting or at the 
address below. Attendees must provide and pay for their own travel 
expenses.
    Purpose: The meeting will bring together a small group of public 
and private medical experts, in adolescent health and immunization, 
to collaborate with the CDC in developing adolescent immunization 
disease reduction and coverage goals/objectives.
    Matters To Be Discussed: CDC speakers will present background 
information; sample goals/objectives; year 2000 and possible 2010 
Healthy People objectives; and other adolescent immunization health 
information. In addition, CDC speakers will describe vaccine-
preventable diseases associated with adolescents and estimated 
immunization coverage levels.
    Specific agenda items include adolescent immunization coverage 
goals; coverage estimates for childhood and adolescent immunization; 
adolescent disease reduction goals; epidemiology of vaccine 
preventable diseases in adolescents; implementation perspectives; 
HEDIS 3.0 adolescent immunization measures; and managed care 
organization adolescent immunization policies.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact Person for More Information: Edith Gary, Health Services 
Research and Evaluation Branch, Immunization Services Division, CDC, 
NIP, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, M/S E-52, Atlanta, Georgia 30333. 
Telephone [phone], fax [phone], e-mail [e-mail].

    Dated: November 7, 1997.
John C. Burckhardt,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 97-29970 Filed 11-13-97; 8:45 am]
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