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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, governmentowned 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] 

BILLING CODE 4160–18–M 

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 

national Center for Public Health 

Informatics within the Coordinating 

Center for Health Information Service, 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention. 

Delete in its entirety the titles and 

functional statements for the 

Information Resources Management 

Office (CAJ5). 

After the mission statement for the 

National Center for Health Statistics 

(CPC), insert the following: 

National Center for Public Health 

Informatics (CPE). The National Center 

for Public Health Informatics (NCPHI) 

protects and improves the public’s 

health through discovery, innovation, 

and service in health information 

technology and informatics. Informatics 

can be defined as the collection, 

classification, storage, retrieval, and 

dissemination of recorded knowledge. 

Public health informatics can be defined 

as the systematic application of 

information and computer science and 

technology to public health practice, 

research and learning. NCPHI assumes a 

leadership role for CDC in public health 

informatics and health information 

technology; ensures progress on CDC 

information resources, informatics, and 

health information systems and 

standards; facilitate cross-national 

center collaboration on informatics and 

health information projects; and 

advances and supports health 

information and informatics initiatives, 

systems, and activities across public 

health. 

Office of the Director (CPE1). (1) 

Plans, directs, coordinates, implements, 

and manages activities of the National 

Center for Public Health Informatics; (2) 

develops and recommends policies and 

procedures relating to informatics 

resources management and support 

services as appropriate; (3) develops 

vision and strategies for informatics and 

its application within public health both 

nationally and internationally; (4) 

assesses CDC-wide needs for informatics 

support; (5) collects external input on 

informatics and applies the knowledge 

gained to agency decision-making; (6) 

establishes CDC-wide informatics 

priorities, including opportunities for 

redirecting resources to areas of greater 

impact; (7) provides for the informatics 

response for cross-cutting urgent and 

emergent needs; (8) establishes 

measures of success/effectiveness of 

CDC informatics activities and provides 

guidance to CDC programs on applying 

these measures; (9) evaluates 

informactics services based on internal 

and external input; (10) establishes and 

maintains internal CDC processes for 

decision making regarding standards, 

guidelines, policies that have 

applicability throughout CDC; (11) 

establishes and ensures the consistent 

application of the CDC enterprise 

architecture to align systems and 

platforms with CDC business objectives 

and goals and optimize the use of 

information resources; (12) establishes 

and ensures the consistent application 

of the CDC unified process to define a 

clear approach to deliver successful 

projects that comply with federal 

regulations and policies and CDC and 

Public Health Information Network 

standards; (13) establishes and ensures 

the adoption of CDC-wide standards and 

specifications that facilitate 

interoperability across sectors and 

provides consistency of functionality; 

(14) establishes relationships for public 

health infromatics across CDC and with 

state and local public health 

organizations and other partners on 

informatics methods, processes, and 

policies; (15) optimizes the portfolio of 

CDC’s informatics projects and systems, 

identifying and facilitating 

opportunities for cross-coordinating 

center/coordinating office/national 

center collaboration in order to leverage 

investments and promote efficiency and 

integration; (16) promotes the 

integration of informatics systems (e.g. 

surveillance) and approaches across 

CDC; (17) collaborates and coordinates 

with all CDC organizations on 

informatics and health information 

technology issues and works closely 

with the Chief Information Officer on 

the interrelationships between 

informatics and information technology 

services, security, and information 

technology capital planning. 

Enterprise Architecture Activity 

(CPE12). (1) Establishes, leads and 

manages the CDC enterprise information 

technology program; (2) ensures that the 

enterprise architecture and its 

associated standards and specifications 

are applied properly throughout 

information resources activities; (3) 

develops, facilitates and maintains 

processes and procedures for evaluating 

and incorporating new technology and 

standards in CDC’s information resource 

environment; (4) develops and 

establishes CDC’s information resource 

current, transitional, and future state 

technology architectures; (5) leads and 

staffs across-agency Enterprise 

Architecture Board; (6) represents CDC 

on Department of Health and Human 

Services and other federal and health 

architecture initiatives; (7) provides 

subject matter expertise on the direction 

and application of technology; (8) 

establishes and manages communities of 

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practices for technology domains; (9) 

develops and maintains a certification 

program to ensure partners’ solutions 

are compatible and compliant with 

Public Health Information Network 

requirements, standards, and 

specifications; 

Science and Research Activity 

(PCE13). (1) Sponsors and conducts 

research on relevant informatics 

approaches and technologies; (2) 

manages a repository of CDC and 

external research on informatics and 

promotes the use of such research 

throughout CDC; (3) develops a research 

agenda on public health informatics as 

a component of the CDC-wide research 

agenda; (4) sponsors and conducts 

research on informatics (e.g. ways of 

protecting privacy of health records in 

an electronic environment, extent to 

which personal health records can be 

used for public health surveillance, 

expanded use of access to other nontraditional health data sources); (5) 

conducts applied research on relevant 

approaches and technologies (e.g. 

applying ideas for standards to systems, 

detection algorithms); (6) conducts 

systematic reviews of available research 

results on informatics to ensure that 

existing knowledge base is available for 

public health informatics; (7) creates 

opportunities for innovation (e.g. 

develop reward systems, establish 

centers of excellence, fund internal pilot 

projects); (8) provides guidance and 

oversight of the practice of science in 

the center; (9) oversees and provides 

leadership in center planning, 

prioritization and evaluation of center 

research; (10) oversees the science 

process in the center; (11) facilitates 

coordination of cross-cutting research in 

the center; (12) assures the quality, 

objectivity and integrity of the practice 

of science in the center; (13) assures 

external peer review of research; (140 

guides the measurement of research 

impact; (15) guides translation of 

research to practice; (16) represents the 

center on the Excellence in Science 

Committee and other committees. 

Program Management Activity 

(CPE14). (1) Develops vision and 

strategies for informatics and its 

application within public health 

(including opportunities for redirecting 

and identifying resources to areas of 

greater impact) and opportunities for 

cross-coordinating center/coordinating 

office/national center collaboration; (3) 

establishes measures of success/ 

effectiveness of CDC informatics 

activities; (4) establishes and maintains 

internal CDC processes for decision 

making regarding metrics, standards, 

guidelines and policies; (5) develops 

and manages the CDC Unified Process 

program for use across the agency; (6) 

Facilitates and staffs informatics 

governance activities; (7) coordinates, 

manages, and optimizes the informatics 

portfolio of projects and systems; (8) 

identifies and incorporates best 

practices for project management within 

the agency; (9) establishes and manages 

mentoring programs and communities 

of practices for project management; 

(10) evaluates health of projects and 

recommends areas for improvement; 

(11) evaluates, designs, and deploys 

processes, procedures, and systems for 

project management and system 

development. 

Business Services Office (CPE15). The 

Business Services Office (BSO) provides 

the coordinating office with a 

centralized business hub where 

customer service and business 

administration is the focal point of all 

business support functions. To carry out 

its mission, the BSO: (1) Develops and 

implements supplemental and/or 

unique-to-NCPHI 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; (2) 

plans, coordinates, tracks, and provides 

management advice and direction of 

fiscal management for the organization’s 

annual budgets and spending plans; (3) 

provides consultation on human capital 

needs and facilitates hiring and training 

practices as described in Office of 

Personnel Management and agency 

guidelines; (4) coordinates and manages 

all business services related to 

management, administration, and 

training for NCPHI; (5) coordinates all 

issues related to physical security, 

telecommunications, office space and 

design, procurement of equipment, 

furniture, and information technology 

services, and facilities management; (6) 

provides assistance to others and 

independently formulates, develops, 

negotiates, manages, and administers 

various NCPHI contracts, grants and 

cooperative agreements; (7) maintains 

liaison with the other offices within 

NCPHI, the coordinating center and 

other business service divisions and 

offices within CDC/ATSDR. 

Division of Alliance Management and 

Consultation (CPEB). (1) Establishes and 

maintains relationships for public 

health informatics across CDC, with 

partners and with other health care 

entities; (2) provides expertise and 

support to CDC staff, partners, and other 

health care entities on informatics 

methods, processes, policies, and 

standards; (3) promotes health standards 

and facilitates forums across CDC, 

sectors, and other federal agencies to 

ensure efficient data exchange, 

interoperability of systems, and 

consistent implementation of methods 

and policy; (4) advances the 

development of a workforce skilled in 

public health informatics by developing 

and providing training across CDC, to 

partners, and to other health care 

entities; (5) promotes the interests of 

public health in the development of 

informatics standards (working with 

federal, state and local, and private 

sector initiatives and organizations) and 

initiatives (e.g. electronic health 

records, networks, the national health 

information infrastructure) to ensure the 

availability and utilization of expanded 

health data for public health purposes; 

(6) enhances the ability of public health 

officials to access and use data, 

information, systems, and technologies 

collected through traditional and nontraditional information systems, and 

through developing approaches to allow 

access while protecting privacy, 

confidentiality, and intellectual 

property rights; (7) enhances and 

maintains partnerships with other 

federal agencies, state and local public 

health departments, national 

organizations, health plans, care 

networks, and regional health 

information networks to meet public 

health informatics needs. 

Division of Knowledge Management 

Services (CPEC). (1) Identifies and 

assesses possible informatics solutions 

for knowledge management and pursues 

appropriate direction for the solution; 

(2) develops, implements, and 

maintains, knowledge management 

solutions that enable efficient delivery, 

sharing, collaboration, management, and 

presentation of information and 

knowledge; (3) develops, implements 

and maintains knowledge management 

solutions that enable efficient delivery, 

sharing, collaboration, management, and 

presentation of information and 

knowledge; (4) delivers credible, timely 

information from scientific and health 

literature to CDC scientists, the public 

health community, and the general 

public by delivering reference services 

and access to published resources, 

evaluating, acquiring, organizing and 

making available knowledge resources, 

and providing training and consultation 

in use of science and health literature. 

Division of Informatics Shared 

Services (CPED). (1) identifies needs and 

opportunities for components that can 

be utilized across multiple informatics 

solutions to ensure interoperability, 

integration and consistency and pursues 

appropriate direction for the solution 

(i.e., buy commercially available, re-use 

or build new); (2) develops, implements 

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and maintains underlying components 

that enable the integration of solutions 

which address cross-cutting CDC or 

partner objectives; (3) identifies the 

need and opportunities for components 

(e.g. messaging specification, 

vocabulary, public health directory, 

secure data transfer) that could be 

utilized across multiple informatics 

solutions to ensure interoperability, 

integration, and consistency; (4) 

manages and allocates shared contractor 

resources (e.g. security, usability, 

quality assurance testing, developers, 

database administrators); (5) manages 

umbrella contracting and other common 

carrier mechanisms to achieve 

information solutions; (6) develops 

standards, quality assurance procedures, 

and guidelines for effective and efficient 

approaches to applications development 

and database management. 

Division of integrated Surveillance 

Systems and Services (CPEE). (1) 

Identifies and assesses informatics 

solutions for integrated surveillance 

nationally and internationally and 

pursues appropriate direction for the 

solution; (2) develops, implements and 

maintains common platforms, 

enterprise-wide systems and 

applications for integrated solutions that 

address cross-cutting CDC or partner 

objectives; (3) develops, manages and 

supports integrated health surveillance, 

information and operational solutions to 

facilitate activities such as surveillance, 

lab reporting, analysis and tracking, 

visualization, reporting and inventory 

management. 

Division of Emergency Preparedness 

and Response (CPEG). (1) Identifies and 

assesses informatics solutions for 

emergency preparedness and response 

and pursues appropriate direction for 

the solution; (2) ensures that capacity 

exists for responding to urgent and 

emergent needs; (3) develops, manages, 

and supports emergency preparedness 

and response solutions to facilitate 

activities such as outbreak investigation, 

event detection and monitoring, and 

response (e.g. flu vaccine finder) and 

ensures capacity for responding to 

urgent and emergent needs; (4) develops 

and manages early disease detection and 

characterization systems, situational 

awareness systems and related analytic 

activities (e.g the biointelligence center, 

aberration detection algorithms). 

Dated: September 27, 2005. 

William H. Gimson, 

Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC). 

[FR Doc. 05–20060 Filed 10–5–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4160–18–M 

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 

National Center for Health Marketing 

within the Coordinating Center for 

Health Information and Service, Centers 

for Disease Control and Prevention. 

Section C–B, Organization and 

Functions, is hereby amended as 

follows: 

Delete in its entirety the titles and 

functional statements for the 

Epidemiology Program Office (CB), the 

Office of Communication (CAA), and 

the Public Health Program Office (CH). 

After the mission statement for the 

Office of the Director (CPA), 

Coordinating Center for Health 

Information and Service (CP), insert the 

following: 

National Center for Health Marketing 

(CPB). The National Center for Health 

Marketing (NCHM) ensures that health 

information, interventions, and 

programs are based on sound science, 

objectivity, and continuous customer 

input; are designed to be accessible, 

appropriately packaged, released in a 

timely manner, and delivered to 

customers, organizations, and target 

populations through the most 

appropriate and effective channels and 

partners; and, are rigorously evaluated 

to measure impact on individual and 

organizational perceptions and 

decisions about health, as well as health 

outcomes across all life stages. In 

carrying out this mission, the NCHM: (1) 

Ensures that the Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC) has the 

necessary data about its customers to 

develop information, interventions, and 

programs that respond to customers’

needs, values, and uses; (2) ensures that 

CDC employs innovative and rigorous 

strategies for reaching its customers 

based on audience and communication 

research; (3) provides value-added, 

cross-cutting scientific support that 

ensures that the best available public 

health science is rapidly and reliably 

translated into effective practice and 

policy; (4) ensures efficient, focused use 

of CDC’s expertise and mechanisms for 

delivering health information and 

services; (5) ensures that customers will 

have effective, real-time access to 

needed health and safety information, 

interventions, and programs through 

communication channels they prefer; (6) 

ensures effective strategic partnerships 

and alliances to extend CDC’s reach; (7) 

increases public awareness and partner 

actions to enhance the public health 

infrastructure; (8) helps people 

understand what public health is as 

well as its relevance and value to people 

across all life stages; (9) promotes and 

facilitates efforts to measure progress 

toward agency goals and evaluates the 

impact of agency program; (10) accesses, 

promotes, and conducts marketing and 

prevention research; (11) develops and 

evaluates strategies for providing 

information, programs, and services; 

(12) develops and tests communication 

messages and programs for public and 

professional audiences; (13) develops 

and coordinates high-priority 

partnerships; (14) delivers CDC 

information and services to the public; 

(15) manages marketing-related shared 

services (e.g., channels, graphics) and in 

carrying out the above functions, 

collaborates, as appropriate, with other 

national centers (NC) of CDC; (16) 

fosters the development and/or 

improvement of methods by which the 

partnership of federal, state, and local 

public health agencies can assure the 

coordinated and effective establishment 

of priorities and responses to public 

health problems; (17) maintains a forum 

for communication, coordination, 

collaboration, and consensus among the 

NCs of CDC, public agencies, and 

private organizations concerned with 

ensuring the quality of public health 

practice; (18) works collaboratively with 

academic institutions, especially 

schools of public health and 

departments of preventive medicine, to 

develop and evaluate prevention 

practices; (19) provides a central service 

for consultation and the design, 

production, and evaluation of media 

and instructional services to support 

CDC’s delivery of public health 

messages; and (20) provides 

consultation, technical assistance on 

health information systems, scientific 

communications, and development of 

community health practice guidelines to 

CDC and the Agency for Toxic 

Substances and Disease Registry 

(ATSDR), states, other agencies, and 

domestic and international 

organizations. 

Office of the Director (CPB1). (1) 

Manages, directs, coordinates, and