[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 155 (Friday, August 9, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 41635]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-20320]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Notice of Meeting
Office of the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), announces the following meeting.
Name: Guide to Community Preventive Services (GCPS) Task Force
Meeting.
Times and Dates: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., August 26, 1996; 8:30 a.m.-5
p.m., August 27, 1996.
Place: CDC, Building 2, Classroom 1, 1600 Clifton Road, NE,
Atlanta, Georgia 30333.
Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
The meeting room accommodates approximately 60 people.
Purpose: The mission of the Task Force is to develop and publish
a Guide to Community Preventive Services, which is based on the best
available scientific evidence and current expertise regarding
essential public health services and what works in the delivery of
those services. The primary purpose of this first meeting is to
develop a shared vision for the Guide, agree on the methods to be
used in its development, and to select the first topics to be
included in the Guide.
Matters to be Discussed: Agenda items include: key issues for
the Guide to Community Preventive Services; defining the Target
Audiences and Developing a Vision for the Anticipated Uses; Nature
of the Content and Format of the Guide; Applicable lessons learned
from the Guidelines Project of the Council on Linkages Between
Academia and Public Health Practice; Methods and Approaches to
Developing the Guide to Community Preventive Services; and Proposed
Approach to the Development of the GCPS.
Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
Contact Person for Additional Information: Marguerite
Pappaioanou, the GCPS Project Director at CDC and Executive
Secretary to the Task Force, Office of the Director, CDC, 1600
Clifton Road, NE, M/S D-27, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone 404/
639-7069.
Persons interested in reserving a space for this meeting should
call 404/639-7100 by close of business on August 21, 1996.
Dated: August 5, 1996.
Nancy C. Hirsch,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 96-20320 Filed 8-8-96; 8:45 am]
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