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b. Which patient conditions (e.g., 

personality disorders; depression; 

schizophrenia; substance use disorder; 

co-occurring disorders (e.g., mental 

health and substance use disorders; 

etc.)) should these measures and/or 

surveys focus on in documenting the 

experience of patients in inpatient 

mental health settings? 

c. In what kinds of inpatient facilities, 

including public and private psychiatric 

hospitals, nonfederal general hospitals 

with separate psychiatric units, the U.S. 

Department of Veterans Affairs medical 

centers, and day treatment or partial 

hospitalization mental health facilities 

should these measures and/or surveys 

be administered? 

6. What measures and surveys that 

assess the experience of patients in 

inpatient mental health settings are 

currently being used? 

a. Which respondent group(s) (e.g., 

patients in inpatient settings; family 

members; providers; etc.) are asked to 

complete these measures and surveys? 

b. In which language(s) are these 

current measures and surveys 

administered? 

c. Which patient conditions (e.g., 

personality disorders; depression; 

schizophrenia; substance use disorder; 

co-occurring disorders; etc.) are the 

focus of current measures and surveys 

about the experience of patients in 

inpatient mental health settings? 

d. What kinds of inpatient facilities 

including public and private psychiatric 

hospitals, nonfederal general hospitals 

with separate psychiatric units, the U.S. 

Department of Veterans Affairs medical 

centers, and day treatment or partial 

hospitalization mental health facilities 

are using these current measures or 

surveys? 

e. What patient experiences relative to 

the use of restraint and seclusion in 

inpatient facilities are captured using 

these current measures or surveys? 

f. Do any current measures or surveys 

collect information about the degree of 

adherence to patient rights in inpatient 

facilities? 

g. How are these currently used 

measures and surveys administered 

(e.g., paper-and-pencil; web-based; etc.) 

to these respondents group(s)? 

h. How are the results/findings of 

these measures and surveys of patient 

experience in inpatient mental 

healthcare used and in which setting(s)? 

i. What is working well/what are the 

strengths of these measures and surveys 

currently in use? 

j. What content areas are missing from 

these measures and surveys currently in 

use? 

k. What content areas are low priority 

or not useful in these currently used 

measures and surveys, and why? 

l. What, if any, challenges are there in 

administering these measures and 

surveys in current use? 

m. How are the results/findings of 

these current measures and surveys 

used to evaluate and/or improve care 

quality in inpatient mental healthcare 

settings? 

Respondents are welcome to address 

as many or as few of these questions as 

they choose and/or to address 

additional areas of interest not listed. 

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 

to 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. Respondents 

are advised that the Government is 

under no obligation to acknowledge 

receipt of the information received or 

provide feedback to respondents with 

respect to any information submitted. 

No proprietary, classified, confidential 

or sensitive information should be 

included in your response. The 

Government reserves the right to use 

any non-proprietary technical 

information in any resultant 

solicitation(s). The contents of all 

submissions will be made available to 

the public upon request. Submitted 

materials must be publicly available or 

able to be made public. 

Dated: April 26, 2022. 

Marquita Cullom, 

Associate Director. 

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HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Solicitation of Nominations for 

Appointment as Members of the 

Community Preventive Services Task 

Force (CPSTF) 

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC), within 

the Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS), is soliciting 

nominations for appointment of 

individuals qualified to serve as new 

members of the Community Preventive 

Services Task Force (CPSTF). New 

CPSTF members will serve a five-year 

term starting in either 2023 or 2024. For 

efficiency and to reduce the burden on 

the public, CDC is soliciting 

nominations to fill vacancies on the 

CPSTF anticipated for both calendar 

years 2023 and 2024. 

DATES: Nomination packages must be 

received on or before 5:00 p.m. EDT, on 

June 24, 2022. Late nomination 

packages will not be considered. 

ADDRESSES: Nomination packages 

should be submitted by either of the 

methods listed below: 

• Electronically by emailing to 

CPSTF@cdc.gov; or 

• U.S. mail to The Community Guide 

Office, Office of the Associate Director 

for Policy and Strategy, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 

Clifton Road NE, MS H21–10, Atlanta, 

GA 30329. Attn: CPTSTF Nominations. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Julie 

Racine-Parshall, Community Guide 

Office, Office of the Associate Director 

for Policy and Strategy, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 

Clifton Road NE, MS H21–10, Atlanta, 

Georgia, 30329. Telephone (770) 488– 

0732; Email: CPSTF@cdc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

submission process, qualification 

requirements, selection process, and the 

time commitment of CPSTF members 

are described below. 

Submission of Nomination Packages 

Nomination packages should include: 

(1) The nominee’s current curriculum 

vitae; 

(2) A brief biographic sketch (less 

than 200 words) of the nominee; 

(3) The nominee’s contact 

information, including mailing address, 

email address, and telephone number; 

and 

(4) A brief explanation of how the 

nominee meets the qualification 

requirements and would contribute to 

the CPSTF. The information provided 

should also attest to the nominee’s 

willingness to serve as a member of the 

CPSTF and identify which year the 

nominee would be available to start (i.e., 

calendar year 2023, 2024, or either 

year). 

After an initial review, CDC will ask 

persons under serious consideration for 

CPSTF membership to provide detailed 

information that will permit evaluation 

of possible significant conflicts of 

interest. 

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all races, genders, ages, and persons 

with disabilities. Interested individuals 

may self-nominate. Organizations and 

individuals may nominate one or more 

persons qualified for membership on the 

CPSTF. Federal employees are not 

eligible to be CPSTF members. 

Individuals nominated prior to this 

nomination period, who continue to 

have interest in serving on the CPSTF, 

may be re-nominated; a new nomination 

package must be submitted in 

accordance with the requirements in 

this notice. 

Qualification Requirements 

To qualify as a member of the CPSTF 

and support its mission, a nominee 

must, at a minimum, demonstrate 

knowledge, experience, and national 

leadership in the following areas: 

• The critical evaluation of research 

or policy, or in the methods of evidence 

review; and 

• Research, evaluation, or 

implementation of community or health 

system-based programs, policies, or 

services to improve population health. 

Strongest consideration will be given 

to individuals with expertise and 

experience: 

• That are applied, with practical 

applications for public health or 

informing policy action; 

• That address broad public health 

considerations, or extends beyond one 

or two highly defined areas; 

• In state or local health departments; 

and 

• In one or more of the following 

areas: Social determinants of health or 

health equity, preventive medicine, 

public health preparedness and 

response, injury or violence prevention, 

public health policy interventions, or 

state-of-the art systematic review 

methods. 

Nominators should highlight the 

relevant information in the nomination 

materials for candidates with experience 

and expertise in any of these areas. 

All nominated individuals will be 

considered for CPSTF membership. 

Applicants must have no substantial 

conflicts of interest, whether financial, 

professional, or intellectual, that would 

impair the scientific integrity of the 

work of the CPSTF and must be willing 

to complete regular conflict of interest 

disclosures. 

Applicants must have the ability to 

work collaboratively with a diverse 

team of professionals who support the 

mission of the CPSTF. Applicants must 

have adequate time to contribute 

substantively to the work products of 

the CPSTF. 

Nominee Selection 

Appointments to the CPSTF will be 

made based on qualifications as 

outlined above (see Qualification 

Requirements) and the current expertise 

needs of the CPSTF. 

Background of the CPSTF 

The CPSTF was established in 1996 

by HHS to identify population health 

interventions that are scientifically 

proven to save lives, increase lifespans, 

and improve quality of life. The CPSTF 

produces recommendations and 

identifies evidence gaps to help inform 

the decision making of federal, state, 

and local health departments, other 

government agencies, communities, 

healthcare providers and organizations, 

employers, schools, and research 

organizations. 

The CPSTF 

(www.thecommunityguide.org/taskforce/about-community-preventiveservices-task-force), is an independent, 

non-federal, unpaid panel of public 

health and prevention experts that is 

statutorily mandated to provide 

evidence-based findings and 

recommendations about community 

preventive services, programs, and 

policies to improve health (Public 

Health Service Act § 399U(a), 42 U.S.C. 

280g–10(a)). Its members represent a 

broad range of research, practice, and 

policy expertise in community 

preventive services, public health, 

health promotion, and disease 

prevention. The CPSTF members are 

appointed by the CDC Director and 

serve five-year terms, with extensions 

possible in order to maintain a full 

scope of expertise, complete specific 

work, and ensure consistency of CPSTF 

methods and recommendations. CDC 

provides ‘‘ongoing administrative, 

research, and technical support for the 

operations of the CPSTF’’ as directed by 

the Public Health Service Act 

§ 399U(c),42 U.S.C. 280g–10(c)). 

The CPSTF bases its 

recommendations on rigorous, 

replicable systematic reviews of the 

scientific literature, which: 

• Evaluate the strength and 

limitations of published scientific 

studies about community-based health 

promotion and disease prevention 

programs, services, and policies; 

• Assess whether the programs, 

services, and policies are effective in 

promoting health and preventing 

disease, injury, and disability; 

• Examine the applicability of these 

programs, services, and policies to 

varied populations and settings; and 

• Conduct economic analyses of 

recommended interventions when 

applicable. 

These systematic reviews are 

conducted, with CPSTF oversight, by 

scientists and subject matter experts 

from the CDC in collaboration with a 

wide range of government, academic, 

policy, and practice-based partners. 

CPSTF systematic review methods are 

described at https://

www.thecommunityguide.org/methodsmanual. CPSTF findings and 

recommendations and the systematic 

reviews on which they are based are 

available at https://

www.thecommunityguide.org/taskforce-findings. 

Time Commitment 

The CPSTF generally conducts three, 

two-day meetings per year. Two of those 

meetings are open to the public and one 

is a closed session business meeting. 

The public meetings are held in-person, 

via video conference, or a combination 

of those two formats. In addition, a 

significant portion of the CPSTF’s work 

occurs between meetings during video 

conferences and via email discussions. 

Member duties include overseeing the 

process of prioritizing CPSTF work, 

participating in the development and 

refinement of systematic review 

methods, serving as members of 

individual review teams, and issuing 

recommendations and findings to help 

inform the decision-making process 

about policy, practice, research, and 

research funding in a wide range of U.S. 

settings. Members help raise awareness 

about CPSTF findings and 

recommendations and the resources 

available through the website. The 

estimated workload for CPSTF members 

is approximately 170 hours a year in 

addition to the three two-day meetings. 

The members are all volunteers and do 

not receive any compensation beyond 

support for travel to in-person meetings 

when they occur. 

Dated: April 27, 2022. 

Angela K. Oliver, 

Executive Secretary, Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention. 

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