Meetings: Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for Health Marketing

Federal Register: June 17, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 115)

Notices

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for Health

Marketing (BSC, NCHM)

In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory

Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), CDC announces the following meeting of the aforementioned committee:

Times and Dates: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., July 14, 2009.

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8:30 a.m.-1 p.m., July 15, 2009.

Place: CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., Building 19, Room 256/257,

Atlanta, Georgia 30333.

Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.

The meeting room accommodates approximately 60 people.

Purpose: The Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services

(HHS), and, by delegation, the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), are authorized under Section 301 (42 U.S.C. 241) and Section 311 (42 U.S.C. 243) of the Public Health Service Act

(PHSA), as amended to: develop and implement disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and health education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States. Under these and additional PHSA and other authorities, CDC acts by identifying and defining preventable health problems; maintaining active surveillance of diseases through epidemiologic and laboratory investigations and data collection, analysis, and distribution; conducting operational research aimed at developing and testing effective disease prevention, control, and health promotion programs; administering a national occupational safety and health program; controlling the introduction and spread of infectious diseases; and providing consultation and assistance to other nations and international agencies to assist in improving their disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion activities. CDC carries out these functions through a number of

Coordinating Centers/Offices and National Centers and Institutes with expertise and responsibilities in specific areas.

Matters to be Discussed: The agenda will include discussions regarding two topics on which the BSC decided to focus its reviews: (1)

Discovery activities (i.e., generation of knowledge, science and research); and (2) Diffusion activities (i.e., translation and transfer of knowledge to practice). Agenda items are tentative and subject to change.

Contact Person for More Information: Dionne R. Mason, Committee

Management Specialist, NCHM, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., Mail Stop E-21,

Atlanta, Georgia 30333, Telephone: (404) 498-2314, Fax (404) 498-2221.

The deadline for notification of attendance is June 30, 2009.

The Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, has been delegated the authority to sign Federal Register notices pertaining to announcements of meetings and other committee management activities for both CDC and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

Dated: June 10, 2009.

Elaine L. Baker,

Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC).

FR Doc. E9-14213 Filed 6-16-09; 8:45 am

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