[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 186 (Monday, September 27, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59277-59278]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-23785]


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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 75 FR 51091-93, dated August 18, 2010) is 
amended to reflect the reorganization of the Division of Adult and 
Community Health within the National Center for Chronic Disease 
Prevention and Health Promotion, Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, 
Injury and Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
    Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as 
follows:
    Delete in its entirety the mission statement for the Division of 
Adult and Community Health (CUCE) and insert the following.
    Division of Adult and Community Health (CUCE). (1) Develops and 
promotes community-based interventions and programs; (2) provides 
national and international leadership in health education and health 
promotion; (3) conducts studies to enhance public health activities in 
health services and managed care; (4) manages public health research, 
training, cooperative, and intervention activities in diverse settings 
such as cities, universities, state health departments, and other 
countries; (5) promotes the understanding and improvement of the 
determinants and issues related to arthritis, aging, epilepsy, and 
emerging chronic disease and health promotion issues; (6) coordinates 
activities with other federal, state, and local governmental agencies, 
academia, and nongovernmental organizations, in cooperation with other 
components of NCCDPHP.
    Delete in its entirety the functional statement for the Office of 
the Director (CUCE1) and insert the following:
    Office of the Director (CUCEI). (1) Manages, coordinates, and 
evaluates the activities and programs of the division; (2) ensures that 
division activities are coordinated with other components of CDC both 
within and outside the center, with federal, state, and local health 
agencies, and with voluntary and professional health agencies; (3) 
provides leadership and coordinates division responses to requests for 
research, consultation, training, collaboration, and technical 
assistance or information on managed care, health promotion, aging, 
epilepsy, and arthritis; (4) provides administrative, logistical, and 
management support for division field staff; (5) provides 
administrative and management support for the division including 
guidance on the organization of personnel and the use of financial 
resources, and oversight of grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, 
and reimbursable agreements; (6) provides leadership and technical 
assistance to communities to promote policy, systems, and environmental 
changes that improve community health; (7) supports a network of 
academic researchers, public health agencies, and community members 
that conducts applied research in disease prevention and control.
    Delete in their entirety the title and functional statement for the 
Arthritis, Epilepsy and Quality of Life Branch (CUC[ccedil]) and insert 
the following:
    State Support, Arthritis, Epilepsy and Quality of Life Branch 
(CUCEC). (1) Directs and supports activities to reach people affected 
by arthritis and improve their quality of life by fostering public 
health science and translating science into population based 
interventions; (2) coordinates CDC Preventive Health and Health 
Services Block Grant (PHHSBG) activities and develops and administers 
guidelines, uniform reporting procedures, and evaluation criteria for 
state programs supported by PHHSBG; (3) directs and supports activities 
that improve quality of life for people affected by epilepsy, including 
improving access to appropriate medical care and self-management 
support, improving policy and systems to support people with epilepsy, 
supporting surveillance, epidemiologic, and prevention research, 
combating stigma and increasing public awareness and knowledge about 
epilepsy; (4) directs and administers surveillance efforts that provide 
knowledge to influence the public health community to improve health 
related quality of life and well-being through public health action; 
(5) develops, validates refines and promotes health-related quality of 
life and well-being measures for use in surveillance, program planning, 
evaluation and public health intervention and policy development; (6) 
directs and coordinates the evaluation of community and state-based 
intervention programs for arthritis and epilepsy; (7) develops 
arthritis and health-related quality of life epidemiology capacity and 
other programmatic capabilities in state health department settings; 
and (8) disseminates health promotion and disease prevention programs 
and information through state and national partners.
    Delete item (4) of the functional statement for the Emerging 
Investigations and Analytic Methods Branch (CUC1J and insert the 
following:

    (4) performs research on adverse childhood events, mental health, 
and alcohol.
    Delete in their entirety the title and functional statement for the 
Community Health and Program Services Branch (CUCEG) and insert the 
following:
    Community Health and Equity Branch (CUCEG). (1) Provides technical 
assistance to state and local health agencies, community-based 
organizations, academic institutions, and other federal, national, and 
international organizations to plan, implement, and evaluate community-
based chronic disease prevention and health promotion programs, with an 
emphasis on improving equity and reducing disparities; (2) develops, 
implements, and evaluates training in the areas of chronic disease 
intervention, social determinants of health, and community health 
promotion for state and local health departments, other agencies, and 
community organizations; (3) supports health promotion and disease 
prevention research conducted at university-based prevention centers; 
(4) develops chronic disease epidemiology capacity in state health 
departments through training and support of chronic disease field 
epidemiologists and other capacity building efforts; (5) provides 
professional statistical and programming services to the division, 
including assistance in design of data collection instruments, computer 
programming, and statistical analysis; (6) provides administrative and 
management support for the branch, including oversight of grants, 
cooperative agreements, contracts, and reimbursable agreements.


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    Dated: September 3, 2010.
William P. Nichols,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2010-23785 Filed 9-24-10; 8:45 am]
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