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most helpful for improving maternal 

health services? In what ways? 

4. The measure currently used by 

AHRQ for severe maternal morbidity 

uses 21 indicators (https://www.cdc.gov/ 

reproductivehealth/ 

maternalinfanthealth/smm/severemorbidity-ICD.htm) identified with 

ICD–10CM10CM/PCS codes in 

administrative data. Considering these 

indicators, 

a. What codes might be missing? Are 

there changes you would you 

recommend? 

b. In what ways would the changes 

that you propose make a severe 

maternal morbidity measure more 

useful to your organization? 

c. Would a measure with the 

refinements you propose be useful for 

surveillance? Population health 

management? Clinical quality 

improvement? Program evaluation? 

Research? Public reporting or 

accountability programs? In what ways? 

5. What other measures of maternal 

health and/or morbidity would your 

organization find useful/effective for 

improving maternal health services, 

including any potential measures for 

use in either the prenatal or postpartum 

time periods? 

AHRQ is interested in all of the 

questions listed above, but respondents 

are welcome to address as many or as 

few as they choose and to address 

additional areas of interest not listed. It 

is helpful to identify the question to 

which a particular answer corresponds. 

This RFI is for planning purposes 

only and should not be construed as a 

policy, solicitation for applications, or 

as an obligation on the part of the 

Government to provide support for any 

ideas in response to it. AHRQ will use 

the information submitted in response 

toto this RFI at its discretion and will 

not provide comments to any 

respondent’s submission. However, 

responses to this RFI may be reflected 

in future solicitation(s) or policies. The 

information provided will be analyzed 

and may appear in reports. 

Dated: January 29, 2024. 

Marquita Cullom, 

Associate Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Reorganization of the National Center 

for Environmental Health 

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), the Department of 

Health and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: CDC has modified its 

structure. This notice announces the 

reorganization of the National Center for 

Environmental Health (NCEH). NCEH 

retitled three branches and established 

the Environmental Public Health 

Tracking Branch. 

DATES: This reorganization was 

approved by the Director of CDC on 

January 26, 2024 and became effective 

January 26, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

D’Artonya Graham, Office of Strategic 

Business Initiatives, Office of the Chief 

Operating Officer, Office of the Director, 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS 

TW–2, Atlanta, GA 30329; Telephone 

770–488–4401; Email: reorgs@cdc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 88 FR 69188–69190, 

dated October 5, 2023) is amended to 

reflect the reorganization of the National 

Center for Environmental Health, 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention. Specifically, the changes are 

as follows: 

I. Under Part C, Section C–B, 

Organization and Functions, make the 

following changes: 

• Update the functional statements and 

retitle all references to the Asthma 

and Community Health Branch 

(CNCC) to the Asthma and Air Quality 

Branch (CNCC) 

• Update the functional statements and 

retitle all references to the Lead 

Poisoning Prevention and 

Environmental Health Tracking 

Branch (CNCD) to the Lead Poisoning 

Prevention and Surveillance Branch 

(CNCD) 

• Update the functional statements and 

retitle the Emergency Management, 

Radiation, and Chemical Branch 

(CNCE) to the Emerging 

Environmental Hazards and Health 

Effects Branch (CNCE) 

II. Under Part C, Section C–B, 

Organization and Functions, after the 

Emerging Environmental Hazards and 

Health Effects Branch insert the 

following organizational unit: 

• Environmental Public Health 

Tracking Branch (CNCG) 

III. Under Part C, Section C–B, 

Organization and Functions, insert the 

following: 

Asthma and Air Quality Branch 

(CNCC) (1) develops, implements, and 

evaluates asthma programs and 

strategies that are part of the National 

Asthma Control Program to reduce 

asthma morbidity and mortality; (2) 

conducts epidemiologic research and 

investigations of asthma morbidity and 

mortality; (3) develops program, 

conducts epidemiologic analysis and 

supports other activities to address 

social determinants of health related to 

asthma disparities; (4) supports 

surveillance activities for asthma, and 

other respiratory diseases, as 

appropriate, to quantify burden and 

guide programs; (5) identifies the 

evidence for, promotes, and tracks 

interventions that reduce the burden of 

asthma, focusing on populations with a 

disproportionate burden of the disease; 

(6) develops and disseminates training, 

tools, communication products, and 

other resources to strengthen and 

sustain asthma control activities and 

technical capacity among national, state, 

tribal, local, territorial and other 

program partners; (7) provides technical 

consultation to state, local, private, 

international, and other federal agencies 

on asthma control, surveillance, 

epidemiology, and evaluation 

(including economic evaluation; (8) 

disseminates and promotes information 

from surveillance and health studies 

related to asthma control; (9) conducts 

epidemiologic research and 

investigations of the potential health 

effects of ambient air pollutants, 

including wildfire smoke; (10) designs 

and evaluates behavioral, 

communication, policy, technological, 

and community design interventions to 

reduce exposures to air pollution and 

improve health; (11) supports activities 

to reduce indoor air pollution; (12) 

develops and coordinates training and 

decision support tools to strengthen and 

sustain air pollution activities and 

technical capacity among national, state, 

tribal, local, and territorial program 

partners; (13) provides technical 

consultation to federal, state, tribal, 

local, territorial, private, and 

international agencies on environmental 

issues related to air pollutants; (14) 


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disseminates, communicates, and 

promotes information to protect 

communities from adverse health 

impacts from air pollution; and (15) 

coordinates asthma- and air qualityrelated activities throughout CDC. 

Lead Poisoning Prevention and 

Surveillance Branch (CNCD) (1) 

establishes, monitors, and evaluates 

goals and objectives for a national 

childhood lead poisoning prevention 

program and blood lead surveillance 

system for CDC; (2) develops and 

implements an integrated national 

program to eliminate childhood lead 

poisoning through partnerships with 

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, other federal 

agencies, and national organizations; (3) 

coordinates efforts of federal, state, 

local, tribal and territorial agencies that 

have programs related to childhood lead 

exposure and prevention to achieve 

national objectives and performance 

standards related to eliminating 

childhood lead poisoning; (4) supports 

state, local, tribal and territorial health 

agencies, and other stakeholders, in 

planning, developing, and 

implementing childhood lead poisoning 

prevention programs and blood lead 

surveillance systems; (5) collects, 

analyzes, and disseminates data on 

blood lead levels in U.S. children; (6) 

develops, conducts, and evaluates 

epidemiologic research on childhood 

lead poisoning including risk factors, 

geographic distribution, and trends; (7) 

works collaboratively across, NCEH, 

CDC and with external partners to build 

capacity for science, innovation, and 

translation research to accelerate 

progress towards national lead 

poisoning prevention goals; (8) develops 

and implements, in concert with other 

federal agencies, national organizations, 

and other appropriate groups, a training 

agenda for public health professionals 

related to childhood lead poisoning 

prevention and surveillance activities; 

(9) administers the CDC/NCEH Federal 

Advisory Committee relevant to lead 

poisoning prevention; and (10) 

coordinates lead poisoning prevention 

and surveillance activities through the 

Division, Center, and with other 

components of CDC and external 

stakeholders, as appropriate. 

Emerging Environmental Hazards and 

Health Effects Branch (CCNCE) (1) 

promotes public health protection from 

environmental hazards and exposures, 

as well as environmental health 

disasters—both natural and 

technological—through education, 

training, and information dissemination 

to the general public as well as the 

public health and clinician 

communities; (2) serves as the CDC lead 

to prepare for and respond to natural, 

nuclear/radiological, and chemical 

emergencies; (3) provides CDC 

leadership to protect public health and 

safety through independent oversight of 

the Army destruction mission including 

stockpiled weapons and recovered 

chemical weapons; (4) addresses 

environmental health emerging hazards 

by conducting surveillance, public 

health response, and environmental 

epidemiologic investigations and 

studies; (5) responds to outbreak or 

cluster investigations of non-infectious 

etiology; and (6) builds the 

environmental epidemiology capacity of 

domestic and international public 

health partners. 

Environmental Public Health 

Tracking Branch (CNCG) (1) develops 

and maintains the National 

Environmental Public Health Tracking 

Network, the cornerstone of the 

Environmental Public Health Tracking 

Program, which connects environmental 

and health data at the national, state, 

and local levels to drive innovative, 

cutting-edge programs and solutions 

that protect and improve the health of 

communities across the country; (2) 

collects, integrates, analyzes, and 

disseminates non-infectious disease, 

environmental, and sociodemographic 

data from a collective of partners at the 

national, state, and local levels; (3) 

delivers health, exposure, and hazards 

data, information summaries, and tools 

to enable analysis, visualization, and 

reporting of insights drawn from data; 

(4) provides timely, local, accessible 

information that drives actions to 

improve community health; and (5) 

empowers environmental and public 

health practitioners, healthcare 

providers, community members, policy 

makers, and others to make informationdriven decisions that affect their health. 

Delegations of Authority 

All delegations and redelegations of 

authority made to officials and 

employees of affected organizational 

components will continue in them or 

their successors pending further 

redelegation, provided they are 

consistent with this reorganization. 

(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3101) 

Robin Bailey, Jr., 

Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

National Institute of Allergy and 

Infectious Diseases; Notice of Closed 

Meeting 

Pursuant to section 1009 of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended, notice is hereby given of the 

following meeting. 

The meeting will be closed to the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in sections 

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

as amended. The contract proposals and 

the discussions could disclose 

confidential trade secrets or commercial 

property such as patentable material, 

and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the contract 

proposals, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: National Institute of 

Allergy and Infectious Diseases Special 

Emphasis Panel; HHS–NIH–CDC–SBIR PHS 

2024–1 Phase I and Phase II: Reagents for 

Immunologic Analysis of Non-mammalian 

and Underrepresented Mammalian Models 

(Topic 129). 

Date: February 26–29, 2024. 

Time: 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate contract 

proposals. 

Place: National Institute of Allergy and 

Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of 

Health, 5601 Fishers Lane, Room 3G56, 

Rockville, MD 20892 (Video Assisted 

Meeting). 

Contact Person: Poonam Tewary, Ph.D., 

Scientific Review Officer, Scientific Review 

Program, Division of Extramural Activities, 

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious 

Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 5601 

Fishers Lane, Room 3G56, Rockville, MD 

20852, (301) 761–7219, tewaryp@

mail.nih.gov. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.855, Allergy, Immunology, 

and Transplantation Research; 93.856, 

Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 

Research, National Institutes of Health, HHS) 

Dated: January 26, 2024. 

Lauren A. Fleck, 

Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

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