Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 35 / Friday, February 21, 1997 / Notices 8033

National Institutes of Health; Notice of

Closed Meetings

Pursuant to Section 10(d) of the

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as

amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice

is hereby given of the following

meetings of the National Institute of

Mental Health Special Emphasis Panel:

Agenda/Purpose: To review and evaluate

grant applications.

Committee Name: National Institute of

Mental Health Special Emphasis Panel.

Date: March 14, 1997.

Time: 10 a.m.

Place: River Inn, 924 25th Street NW.,

Washington, DC 20037.

Contact Person: Jean G. Noronha,

Parklawn, Room 9C–26, 5600 Fishers Lane,

Rockville, MD 20857, Telephone: (301) 443–

6470.

Committee Name: National Institute of

Mental Health Special Emphasis Panel.

Date: March 19, 1997.

Time: 2 p.m.

Place: Parklawn, Room 9C–26, 5600

Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857.

Contact Person: Phyllis D. Artis, Parklawn,

Room 9C–26, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,

MD 20857, Telephone: (301) 443–6470.

The meetings will be closed in accordance

with the provisions set forth in secs.

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5, U.S.C.

Applications and/or proposals and the

discussions could reveal confidential trade

secrets or commercial property such as

patentable material and personal information

concerning individuals associated with the

applications and/or proposals, the disclosure

of which would constitute a clearly

unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program Numbers 93.242, 93.281, 93.282)

Dated: February 13, 1997.

LaVerne Y. Stringfield,

Committee Management Officer, NIH.

[FR Doc. 97–4258 Filed 2–20–97; 8:45 am]

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Public Health Service

National Institutes of Health

Office of Research on Women’s

Health; Notice of Meeting—‘‘Beyond

Hunt Valley: Research on Women’s

Health for the 21st Century’’

Notice is hereby given that the Office

of Research on Women’s Health, Office

of the Director, National Institutes of

Health, will convene a meeting on April

5, 6, and 7, 1997, at the Pyramid Crowne

Plaza Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The purpose of the meeting is to update

the current biomedical and behavioral

research agenda for women’s health, as

presented in the Report of the National

Institutes of Health: Opportunities for

Research on Women’s Health, a

publication based on a conference held

in Hunt Valley, Maryland, September

1991.

The NIH/FAES is accredited by the

Accreditation Council for Continuing

Medical Education to sponsor

continuing medical educations for

physicians.

The NIH/FAES designates this

educational activity for a maximum of

10 hours in category 1 credit towards

the AMA Physician’s Recognition

Award. Each physician should claim

only those hours of credit that he/she

actually spent in the educational

activity.

The first day, April 5 will be devoted

to receiving public testimony from 1:00

p.m. to 5:00 from individuals

representing organizations interested in

biomedical and behavioral research on

women’s health issues. On April 6 and

7 concurrent working groups will

discuss women’s health research, with

particular reference to differences

among populations of women. The

schedule for April 6 is 8:30 a.m. to 5:30

p.m. and on April 7 the meeting will

end approximately at 2:30 p.m. All

sessions of the meeting are open to the

public.

Studies have shown that differences

exist among women, in regards to health

status and health outcomes. Also, some

diseases, disorders, and conditions are

more common among some populations

of women than others. The reasons for

these differences have not been

delineated. Some studies have

implicated socioeconomic status, access

to health care, individual behavior and

attitudes, provider attitudes, culture and

race/ethnicity as different reasons.

However, some differences cannot be

explained totally on the basis of any of

these examples.

The purpose of this conference is to

identify where differences exist in the

diverse populations of women and to

modify the NIH research agenda to

better enable the identification of why

these differences exist. In addition,

strategies, based upon the research

which can result in an improved health

status and health outcome for all

women, will be developed.

Experts in the fields of basic and

clinical science, practitioners interested

in women’s health, representatives of

scientific, professional and women’s

health organizations, and women’s

health advocates will be asked to assess

the current status of research in

women’s health, in these, and other

areas, identify gaps in existing

knowledge, and recommend scientific

approaches and strategies to take

advantage of promising opportunities

for research on women’s health.

Open sessions will be devoted to

identifying those factors which may

influence health status and health

outcomes including, but not limited to,

racial, cultural and ethnic beliefs,

attitudes, behavior environmental

influences, biologic difference, effects of

the changing health care environment,

and socioeconomic status.

Sessions that follow will be devoted

to identifying major factors among

populations of women within each life

stage/age group and examples of

diseases, disorders, and conditions

where population differences most

impact women’s health, and

recommend research (and public policy)

strategies to address these gaps in

knowledge.

The Office of Research on Women’s

Health invites individuals representing

organizations with an interest in

research areas related to women’s health

to provide written and oral testimony on

these topics and on career issues for

women scientists.

Due to time constraints, only one

representative from each organization

may present oral testimony, with

presentations limited to 10 minutes. A

letter of intent to present such testimony

should be sent by interested individuals

and organizations to Ms. Nancy Teed,

Houston Associates, 1010 Wayne

Avenue, Suite 1200, Silver Spring, MD

20910. The date of receipt of the letter

will establish the order of presentations

at the April meeting.

Presenters should send three (3)

written copies of their testimony,

including a brief description of their

organization, to the above address no

later than March 20, 1997.

Individuals and organizations wishing

to provide written statements only made

send three (3) copies of their statements

to the above address by March 20, 1997.

All written testimony will be made

available to the conferees prior to the

April 6 meeting day. Comments and

questions related to the April meeting

should be addressed to Ms. Teed.

This meeting is the second of three

regional public hearings and scientific

workshops of similar design to be

convened by the Office of Research on

Women’s Health. At the conclusion of

this series of meetings, the Office of

Research on Women’s Health will

convene a national meeting to address

the deliberations and recommendations

from the regional public hearingsand

scientific workshops for the purpose of

developing a report of priorities for

research on women’s health for the 21st

century.