[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 156 (Tuesday, August 14, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45430-45433]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 07-3953]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of 
Authority

    Part C (Centers for Disease control and Prevention) of the 
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of 
the Department of Health and Human Services (45 FR 67772-76, dated 
October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR 69296, October 20, 1980, as 
amended most recently at 72 FR 38600--38601, dated July 13, 2007) is 
amended to reflect the reorganization of the Coordinating Office for 
Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as 
follows: Delete in their entirety the titles and functional statements 
for the

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Coordinating Office for Global Health (CW), and insert the following:
    Coordinating Office for Global Health (CW). The mission of the 
Coordinating Office for Global Health (COGH) is to work with partners 
in CDC and around the glove through technical assistance and health 
system development to promote improved health and health diplomacy, and 
protect citizens of the U.S. and the world.
    To carry out its mission, working with and through global programs, 
COGH: (1) Serves as the principal Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) organization to develop and foster collaborations, 
partnerships, program integration, and resource leveraging among public 
and private organizations and to increase the CDC's global health 
impact in order to achieve global health goals; (2) coordinates review 
of current global health status and evolving issues; (3) provides 
strategic direction for CDC's global health policies and programs; (4) 
identifies and develops activities to ensure CDC's technical expertise 
is used to maximize global health impact; (5) stimulates global health 
research and program development based on assessments of current global 
health needs and available resources; (6) conducts and stimulates 
activities to strengthen global health capacity and systems through 
public health workforce, systems, and process development and 
improvements; (7) coordinates cross-cutting CDC global health 
activities and global health emergency response efforts; and (8) 
manages CDC global field operations through a system of regional and 
country directors.
    Office of the Director (CWA). (1) Manages, directs, and evaluates 
the activities of COGH; (2) provides leadership in the formulation and 
implementation of CDC's global health strategies, policies, and goals; 
(3) advises the Director, CDC, on global health issues; (4) ensures 
coordination of the CDC response to global health emergencies; (5) 
leads the development of, and fosters strategic and working 
partnerships, in support of the global health goals; (6) coordinates 
CDC's legislative agenda and activities related to global health; (7) 
provides leadership in determining requirements for CDC's funding and 
staffing needs for global health programs; (8) manages the distribution 
of, and provides oversight for, CDC categorical global health program 
funding; (9) coordinates, in cooperation with the Office of Strategy 
and Innovation, the development, measurement, and assessment of 
progress toward CDC's global health goals, efforts to improve global 
health equity, fostering of excellence and innovation, and executive 
decision support; (10) coordinates, in cooperation with Office of the 
Chief of Public Health Practice and the Office of the Chief Science 
Officer, CDC's global health practice and science activities; (11) 
coordinates, in cooperation with the Office of Enterprise 
Communications, internal and external global health communications, 
media relations, issues management across CDC global programs, and 
develops and maintains the COGH intra-, extra-, and internet and web 
sites; (12) coordinates, in cooperation with the Office of Workforce 
and Career Development, efforts to ensure a competent and sustainable 
CDC and global health workforce through workforce and career 
development for CDC internationally assigned staff, both direct hires 
and locally employed staff, and assisting partner countries in their 
workforce and career development efforts; (13) convenes and supports 
the Global Health Leadership Board; (14) provides business services 
support for COGH and program services for global health programs; (15) 
develops and implements supplemental administrative policies and 
procedures that govern business administration, procurement practices, 
facilities management, time and attendance reporting, travel, records 
management, personnel and a wide scope of other business services; (16) 
plans, coordinates, tracks, and provides management advice and 
direction of fiscal management for the organization's annual budgets 
and spend plans; (17) provides consultation on human capital needs and 
facilitates hiring and training practices as described in the Office of 
Personnel Management and agency guidelines; (18) coordinates and 
manages all business services related to management, administration, 
and training for COGH; (19) working with and through global programs, 
coordinates issues related to telecommunications, office space and 
design, physical security, procurement of equipment, furniture, IT 
services, and facilities management; (20) provides assistance in 
formulating, developing, negotiating, managing, and administering 
various COGH contracts; and (21) maintains liaison with the other 
offices within COGH and other business services offices within CDC.
    Global Program Services Office (CWA2). The mission of the Global 
Program Services Office (GPSO) is to support CDC-wide programs and 
staff through the efficient, professional and timely delivery of 
critical global health mission-support services. To carry out its 
mission, GPSO performs the following functions: (1) Provides agency-
wide support for global travel services; (2) provides agency-wide 
leadership and support in ensuring consistency for global assignments, 
systems, and operations; (3) provides a point of contact for overseas 
staff for deployment support, services, and entitlements; (4) 
administers the CDC Exchange Visitors Program and is responsible for 
agency-wide immigration-related activities; (5) provides leadership, 
expertise and technical assistance to CDC programs regarding extramural 
and procurement transactional functions; (6) provides a liaison with 
the Department of State for embassy related issues; (7) provides a 
liaison with the information technology office, global program offices, 
and overseas offices to advocate and coordinate global technology and 
systems; and (8) consults regularly with CDC Programs on strategic and 
operational issues regarding mission-support services provided by COGH-
GPSO through a Governance Council and Customer Feedback Forum.
    Global Operations Management Office (CWA23). (1) Advises the COGH 
Director and Chief Management Official on important issues related to 
assignments, systems, and operations for international activities 
impacting programmatic implementation; (2) services as the focal point 
for CDC services for international assignees; (3) coordinates the 
operational support services for CDC global programs; (4) coordinates 
development of policies for overseas services management, locally 
employed staff, and overseas travel; (5) coordinates and documents 
international services management policy agency-wide with the 
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and with the Department 
of State (DOS), ascertaining the need for, and proposing administrative 
improvements and legislative requirements to improve operations and 
avoid management problems; (6) participates as a member of the 
government-wide working group for the interagency system for management 
of shared administrative support services (ICASS), overseas building 
operations and rightsizing liaison, capital security cost-sharing 
reconciliation, and property management (inventory, government-owned 
vehicles, furniture, furnishings, appliances, equipment); (7) in 
carrying out the above responsibilities, coordinates activities with 
coordinating center/offices/implementing programs,

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DHHS, Office of Global Health Affairs, other governmental and non-
governmental organizations, and other partners, as appropriate; (8) 
administers CDC Exchange Visitors Program and is responsible for 
agency-wide immigration-related activities; (9) coordinates processes 
for all overseas staff assignments including family support; (10) 
provided agency-wide passport, visa, and clearance services; (11) 
services as the CDC office responsible for obtaining DHHS and DOS 
clearances/approvals for all international TDY travel by CDC employees; 
(12) provides travel services to CDC employees traveling overseas 
including order issuance, country and DHHS clearances, as well as 
voucher preparation in support of the CDC global mission; (13) provides 
services to CDC employees stationed overseas who commence entitlement 
travel; (14) provides support and services to overseas assignees who 
are removed from their post for medical or security reasons; (15) 
provides reports to CDC programs regarding work volume, process 
timeliness, travel costs and customer satisfaction results; and (16) 
provides policy expertise to all employees performing international, 
entitlement or emergency travel.
    Extramural and Procurement Services Office (CWA24). (1) Working 
with and through global programs, provides support in the development 
and implementation of Funding Opportunity Announcements and Request for 
Financial Assistance; (2) as an extension of program, provides 
leadership in establishing and implementing the Objective Review Panel 
Process leading to funding determinations; (3) monitors and evaluate 
the business services components of recipient organizations achievement 
of goals and objectives; (4) manages the credit card processes for CDC 
programs with an overseas presence; (5) coordinates and approves 
individual international credit card transactions for CDC programs with 
an overseas presence; (6) manages the procurement processes from 
request to implementation; (7) participates in strategic planning 
development and implementation of CDC program support goals; and (8) 
provides routine and continuous feedback to recipients of Extramural 
and Program Support services and their managers regarding services 
provided.
    Division of Global Preparedness and Program Coordination (CWE). The 
Division of Global Preparedness and Program Coordination supports CDC 
global programs for global health preparedness and global health 
protection and promotion through leadership and coordination for global 
health programs. This includes agency-level oversight for CDC's system 
of international offices, and cross-cutting situational awareness for 
health status, program status, and partnership issues in all geographic 
regions of the world. To carry out its mission, the division performs 
the following functions: (1) Fosters collaborations, partnerships, 
integration, and resource leveraging to increase CDC's impact and 
achieve global health goals; (2) manages and supports all CDC global 
health field operations using CDC Country Director or Country 
Representative structures where there are multiple CDC programs in a 
country; (3) provides, in cooperation and coordination with GPSO, 
support for all CDC global health field operations; (4) coordinates 
management and oversight of critical global health preparedness and 
emergency response activities across CDC, including situational 
awareness and partnership management at the global and regional level; 
(5) coordinates with and responds to requests from a wide array of 
internal CDC and external partners and stakeholders; and (6) provides 
stewardship and leadership support to global health preparedness 
programs housed in the division.
    Office of the Director (CWE1). (1) Provides leadership, oversight 
and overall direction for the activities of the division; (2) provides 
leadership and guidance on policy, program planning and evaluation, 
program management, and operations; (3) plans, allocates, and monitors 
resources; (4) provides leadership and management oversight in carrying 
out CDC global field programs; (5) provides liaison with other CDC 
organizations, other Federal agencies, national ministries of health, 
international organizations, non-governmental organizations, private 
sector, and others with whom CDC cooperates in global health programs 
and activities; (6) in collaboration with the COGH Science Officer, and 
the Associate Directors of Science from the CDC global programs, 
promotes high standards in science and ethics among CDC's international 
activities; and (7) in collaboration with the COGH Strategy and 
Innovation Officer, translates strategy and innovation concepts and 
initiatives out to the network of CDC international offices.
    Global Disease Detection and Emergency Response Branch (CWEB). The 
Global Disease Detection and Emergency Response Branch provides 
leadership and works with partners around the globe to increase 
preparedness to prevent and control naturally-occuring and man-made 
threats to health. Specifically, it: (1) Administers CDC's Global 
Disease Detection program through coordination with relevant 
implementing programs; (2) coordinates global aspects of CDC's 
terrorism preparedness and emergency response activities in 
collaboration with CDC's Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness 
and Emergency Response; (3) plans, supports, and coordinates 
international influenza pandemic preparedness in collaboration with 
relevant partners in CDC and DHHS; (4) provides leadership and support 
for the CDC global emergency preparedness and response program designed 
to prevent, if possible, and to prepare for, detect and respond to 
biological, chemical, radiological incidents, naturally occurring or 
man-made, of international interest; (5) works cooperatively with all 
CDC and U.S. government organizations involved in global emergency 
preparedness and response as well as with World Health Organization and 
other international organizations and partner countries; (6) assists in 
developing country-level epidemiologic, laboratory, and other capacity 
to ensure country emergency preparedness and response to outbreaks and 
incidents of local importance and of international interest; and (7) 
maintains staff in the Director's Emergency Operations Center to serve 
as a central focus for CDC's global outbreak/incident response 
activities.
    Geographic and Program Coordination Branch (CWEC). (1) Directs and 
manages human and financial resources in consolidated CDC country 
offices; (2) provides leadership, support and coordination for the 
agency-wide responsibilities of CDC country offices; (3) provides core 
support and coordination to CDC country offices through regional 
liaison teams, in cooperation with the GPSO; (4) facilitates new 
opportunities for international activities of the national centers' 
programs, and provides technical and management support for existing 
activities; (5) promotes partnerships and coordination in strategic 
areas with key country, regional, international and U.S. Government 
institutions; (6) provides leadership on cross-cutting global health 
issues; and (7) coordinates country-based assessments, planning and 
performance monitoring and evaluation.
    Division of Global Public Health Capacity Development (CWF). The 
Division of Global Public Health Capacity Development contributes to 
improving the health of the people of the United States and other 
nations by partnering with ministries of health, educational 
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agencies, and international organizations to strengthen capacity of 
countries around the world to improve public health. To carry out its 
mission, the division performs the following functions: (1) Works with 
partners to build strong, transparent, and sustained public health 
systems through training, consultation, capacity building, and 
technical assistance in applied epidemiology, public health 
surveillance, evaluation, and laboratory systems; and promotes 
organizational excellence in public health through strengthening 
leadership and management capacity; (2) assists in developing and 
implementing COGH policy on public health system strengthening and 
sustainability; and (3) collaborates with other ODC organizations, 
Federal agencies, international agencies, partner countries, and non-
governmental organizations assisting ministries of health to build 
public health capacity in other areas of public health.
    Office of the Director (CWF1). (1) Provides leadership, overall 
direction, and evaluation for the division; (2) formulates and 
implements CDC's strategy for developing global public health capacity 
in applied epidemiology, public health systems, laboratory operations 
and management, and leadership; (3) provides leadership and guidance on 
policy, program planning, program management, and operations; (4) 
plans, allocates, and monitors resources; (5) provides leadership in 
assisting national ministries of health, international agencies, and 
non-governmental organizations in the delivery of epidemiologic 
services and the development of international epidemiologic networks; 
(6) provides liaison with other CDC organizations, other Federal 
agencies, national ministries of health, and international 
organizations; and (7) provides consultations with partners and 
stakeholders including nongovernmental organizations and the private 
sector on program development and overall public health systems and 
sub-systems.
    Sustainable Management Development Program (CWF12). (1) Partners 
with ministries of health, educational institutions, and non-
governmental organizations in developing countries, to promote 
organizational excellence in public health through strengthening 
leadership and management capacity; (2) works with partners to build 
capacity for public health leadership and management development 
through a multi-phased approach including situational analysis, 
capacity development, technical assistance, and sustainability; (3) 
develops strategic institutional partnerships for public health 
leadership and management capacity-building efforts; (4) develops 
faculty to enhance in-country leadership and management training 
capacity through the Management for International Public Health course 
and in-country training-of-trainers; (5) provides support to training 
faculty in partner institutions to conduct performance needs 
assessments; develops locally appropriate curricula; and designs in-
country leadership and management workshops that provide participants 
with practical skills needed to manage public health teams, programs, 
and organizations; and (6) works with partner institutions to ensure 
the long-term sustainability of global public health leadership and 
management development programs.
    Capacity Development Branch (CWFB). (1) With partners, designs and 
conducts evidence-based instruction in public health disciplines needed 
to strengthen their public health systems, including instructional 
design, epidemiology, surveillance, laboratory operations and 
management, communications, and economic evaluation; (2) working with 
the technical program components, provides consultation to ministries 
of health in development of surveillance systems (e.g. Integrated 
Disease Surveillance, injury, chronic diseases, infectious diseases, 
etc.); (3) creates and maintains computer-based and distance-based 
learning methods, and develops the capacity of partners to create, 
evaluate, and share their own; (4) develops and evaluates competency-
based training materials; (5) maintains a divisional training material 
library and Web site; and (6) collaborates within CDC and with national 
or international organizations in development of competency-based 
training materials, evaluation of training, and design of surveillance 
systems needed to accomplish the mission.
    Program Development Branch (CWFC). (1) Assists partners in 
assessing their needs for health systems strengthening; (2) plans, 
directs, supports, and coordinates field epidemiology and laboratory 
training programs, Data for Decision Making Projects, and other 
partnerships with ministries of health; (3) provides leadership and 
management oversight in assisting ministries of health in capacity 
building by training epidemiologists and other health professionals 
through the development of competency-based, residency-style, applied 
training programs; (4) provides leadership and expertise in assisting 
national ministries of health to utilize trained public health workers 
for developing health policy, and implementing and evaluating health 
programs; (5) assigns and manages expert consultants as long-term, in-
country advisors to ministry of health programs; and (6) collaborates 
within CDC, with other Federal agencies, and with national and 
international organizations in support of partner programs.

    Dated: August 3, 2007.
William H. Gimson,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 07-3953 Filed 8-13-07; 8:45 am]
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