[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 193 (Thursday, October 6, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58421-58423]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-20058]


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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 70 FR 55859-55860, dated September 23, 2005) 
is amended to reflect the establishment of the Coordinating Office for 
Global Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as 
follows:
    Delete in its entirety the title and functional statement for the 
Office of Global Health (CAB).
    After the mission statement for the Coordinating Center for 
Infectious Diseases (CV), insert the following:
    Coordinating Office for Global Health (CW). The mission of the 
Coordinating Office of Global Health (COGH) is to provide leadership 
and work with partners around the globe to: (1) Increase life 
expectancy and years of quality life, especially among those at highest 
risk for premature death, particularly vulnerable children and women, 
and (2) increase the global preparedness to prevent and control 
naturally-occurring and man-made threats to health. To carry out its 
mission, COGH (1) fosters collaborations, partnerships, integration, 
and resource leveraging to increase the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention's (CDC) health impact and achieve global health goals; (2) 
assesses

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evolving global health issues; (3) provides strategic direction to 
support CDC's global health activities; (4) identifies and develops 
activities where CDC's technical expertise maximizes public health 
impact; (5) stimulates research and program development by 
disseminating information acquired through ongoing global health 
initiatives; (6) strengthens global capacity in areas such as public 
health workforce and systems development; and (7) coordinates cross-
cutting CDC global health activities.
    Office of the Director (CWA). (1) Manages, directs, and coordinates 
the activities of the office; (2) provides global business management 
and strategic planning support to achieve its objectives with 
measurable results; (3) provides leadership in the formulation and 
implementation of CDC's global health strategy, and facilitates the 
development of strategic partnerships in support of the goals; (4) 
coordinates CDC's legislative agenda and activities related to global 
public health; (5) provides leadership in policy formation, program 
operations, strategic direction, and fiscal oversight; (6) administers 
CDC's global disease detection program through coordination with 
relevant implementing programs; (7) coordinates CDC's global science 
and public health practice activities; (8) formulates and implements 
CDC's strategy for global workforce and career development; and (9) 
coordinates global health communication issues across CDC.
    Office of Capacity Development and Program Coordination (CWB). The 
Office of Capacity Development and Program Coordination provides 
agency-wide leadership and coordination to strengthen, assist, and 
facilitate the implementation of global programs through the Division 
of Epidemiology and Surveillance Capacity Development and the 
Sustainable Management Development Program.
    Office of the Director (CWB1). (1) Provides leadership and overall 
direction for the office; (2) provides leadership and guidance on 
global health program coordination, policy, program planning, program 
management, operations, and monitoring; (3) provides liaison with other 
CDC coordinating centers/coordinating offices, national centers, other 
federal agencies, national ministries of health, and international 
organizations; and (4) strengthens global public health capacity in the 
areas of informatics, laboratory, science, program management, 
epidemiology, and surveillance.
    Sustainable Management Development Program (CWB12). (1) Strengthens 
public health management training capacity by developing a global 
network of professional management trainers skilled in evidence-based 
decision-making; (2) conducts needs assessment/planning for the 
development of regional/national training programs; (3) provides 
leadership in faculty development in Atlanta; (4) provides or 
facilities in-country technical assistance for regional/national 
training programs; (5) provides or facilities support for evaluation 
and sustainability of management training programs; and (6) 
collaborates within CDC, and with other national or international-based 
organizations in support of the Sustainable Management Development 
Program's mission.
    Division of Epidemiology and Surveillance Capacity Development 
(CWBB). (1) Contributes to improving the health of the people of the 
United States (U.S.) and other nations by partnering with other 
national agencies and international organizations to build strong, 
transparent, and sustained public health systems; assesses, develops, 
promotes, and strengthens public health systems through training, 
consultation, capacity building, and other assistance in applied 
epidemiology, public health surveillance, evaluation, instructional 
design, and other disciplines needed for health policy formulation, 
allocation of health resources, direction, and evaluation of public 
health program operations and effectiveness; (2) provides input into 
Office of Capacity Development and Program Coordination and COGH policy 
on health system strengthening and sustainability; and (3) collaborates 
with other CDC organizations, US government agencies, international 
agencies, foreign governments, and non-profit organizations in support 
of COGH's goals and activities.
    Office of the Director (CWBB1). (1) Provides leadership and overall 
direction for the division; (2) provides leadership and guidance on 
policy, program planning, program management, and operations; (3) 
plans, allocates, and monitors resources; (4) provides leadership and 
management oversight in assisting national ministries of health, 
international agencies, and non-profit organizations in the delivery of 
epidemiologic services and the development of international 
epidemiologic networks; and (5) provides liaison with other CDC 
organizations, other federal agencies, national ministries of health, 
and international organizations.
    Capacity Development Branch (CWBBC). (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, communications, and economic 
evaluation; (2) 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 divisional training material library and 
website; and (6) collaborates within CDC and with other national or 
international-based organizations in development of competency-based 
training materials, evaluation of training, and design of surveillance 
systems needed to accomplish the mission.
    Program Development Branch (CWBBC). (1) Assists partners to assess 
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 training of 
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 healthy programs; and (6) collaborates within CDC and with 
other national and international organizations in support of partner 
programs.
    Office of Global Program Support Services (CWC). The Office of 
Global Program Support Services provides agency-wide leadership and 
support for assignments, systems, and operations in the implementing of 
the global health initiatives. The office's function will provide the 
foundation for the development and application of consistent and 
equitable assignments, systems, and operational policies.
    Office of the Director (CWC1). (1) Advises the COGH Director on 
important issues related to assignments,

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systems, and operations for international activities impacting 
programmatic implementation; (2) serves as the focal point for CDC 
international assignees and travelers; (3) coordinates the operational 
support services for CDC programs; (4) coordinates and documents 
international management policy agency-wide with the Department of 
Health and Human Services and with the Department of State, 
ascertaining the need for, and proposing, administrative improvements 
and legislative requirements to improve operations and avoid management 
problems; (5) coordinates development of policies for overseas 
management, locally employed staff, and overseas travel; (6) provides 
government-wide leadership for the 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, property management, furniture, 
furnishing, appliances, equipment); (6) in carrying out the above 
responsibilities, coordinates activities with coordinating centers/
offices/implementing programs, the Office of Global Health Affairs, 
other governmental and non-governmental organizations, and other 
partners, as appropriate; (7) administers exchange visitor program, 
short-term visitors, and immigration activities for CDE; (8) 
coordinates processes for all overseas staff assignments including 
family support; and (9) provides agency-wide passport, visa, and 
clearance services.

    Dated: September 2, 2005.
William H. Gimson,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC).
[FR Doc. 05-20058 Filed 10-5-05; 8:45 am]
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