[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 146 (Friday, July 30, 1999)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-19497]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Translation Advisory Committee for Diabetes Prevention and
Control Programs: 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: Translation Advisory Committee for Diabetes Prevention and
Control Programs.
Times and Dates: 9 a.m.-6 p.m., September 15, 1999; 9 a.m.-1
p.m., September 16, 1999.
Place: Holiday Inn Select, 130 Clairemont Avenue, Decatur,
Georgia 30030, telephone 404/371-0204.
Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
The meeting room accommodates approximately 50 people.
Purpose: This committee is charged with advising the Director,
CDC, regarding policy issues and broad strategies for diabetes
translation activities and control programs designed to reduce risk
factors, health services utilization, costs, morbidity, and
mortality associated with diabetes and its complications. The
Committee identifies research advances and technologies ready for
translation into widespread community practice; recommends broad
public health strategies to be implemented through public health
interventions; identifies opportunities for surveillance and
epidemiologic assessment of diabetes and related complications; and
for the purpose of assuring the most effective use and organization
of resources, maintains liaison and coordination of programs within
the Federal, voluntary, and private sectors involved in the
provision of services to people with diabetes.
Matters to be Discussed: The Guide to Community Preventive
Services, under the auspices of the U.S. Public Health Service, a
Task Force on Community Preventive Services is developing a Guide to
Community Preventive Services. The Guide will summarize what is
known about the effectiveness of population-based interventions for
prevention and control. Where data exist, the Guide will also
summarize information on the cost-effectiveness of these
interventions. Based on available evidence, the Guide will provide
recommendations on these population-based interventions and methods
for their delivery.
Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
Contact person for more information: Norma Loner, Committee
Management Specialist, Division of Diabetes Translation, National
Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC,
4770 Buford Highway, NE, M/S K-10, Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3717,
telephone 770/488-5376.
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: July 26, 1999.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 99-19497 Filed 7-29-99; 8:45 am]
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