[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 188 (Tuesday, September 29, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 51937]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-25970]
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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.-5:30 p.m., October 20, 1998. 8:30
a.m.-3:30 p.m., October 21, 1998.
Place: Holiday Inn Select Atlanta-Decatur Hotel & Conference
Plaza, 130 Clairemont Avenue, Decatur, Georgia 30030.
Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
The meeting room accommodates approximately 50 people.
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 and mix of intramural and extramural research,
including laboratory research, and provides guidance on intramural
and extramural scientific program matters, both present and future,
particularly from a long-range viewpoint. 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 recommends areas of research to be supported by
contracts and provides concept review of program proposals and
announcements.
Matters to Be Discussed: The Science and Program Review Work
Group (SPRWG) will meet from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on October 20,
1998, to discuss (1) outcome of the August 11-12 ACIPC meeting; (2)
grant awards for fiscal year 1998; (3) upcoming program
announcements; (4) extramural grant review process; and (5) progress
on standing Work Group issues. On October 21, 1998, from 8:30 a.m.
to 3:30 p.m., the full Committee will meet to discuss (1) an update
from the Director, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
(NCIPC); (2) an update on Safe America and Partnership Council; (3)
a report from SPRWG regarding the October 20 oversight meeting; (4)
national injury research agenda issues; and (5) a presentation on
NCIPC's traumatic brain injury program and spinal cord injury
registries.
Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
Contact Person for More Information: Mr. Thomas E. Blakeney,
Executive Secretary, ACIPC, NCIPC, CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, M/S
K61, Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3724, telephone 770/488-1481.
Dated: September 22, 1998.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 98-25970 Filed 9-28-98; 8:45 am]
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