[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 197 (Thursday, October 11, 2012)]
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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 77 FR 53888-53889, dated September 4, 2012) is
amended to reflect the reorganization of the National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control, Office for Non-communicable Diseases, Injury
and Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as
follows:
After the listing for the National Center for Injury Prevention and
Control (CUH), delete in their entirety the remaining titles and
functional statements and insert the following:
Office of the Director (CUH1). (1) Manages, directs, coordinates
and evaluates the activities of the National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control (NCIPC); (2) develops goals and objectives and
provides leadership, policy formation, scientific oversight, and
guidance in program planning and development; (3) coordinates NCIPC
program activities with other CDC components, other Public Health
Service (PHS) agencies, PHS regional offices, other federal agencies,
state and local health departments, community-based organizations,
business and industry; (4) consults and coordinates activities with
medical, engineering, and other scientific and professional
organizations interested in injury prevention and control; (5) provides
administrative support, program management and fiscal services to the
center; (6) supports the activities of the Secretary's Advisory
Committee for Injury Prevention and Control; (7) coordinates technical
assistance to other nations and international organizations in
establishing and implementing injury prevention and control programs;
(8) directs and coordinates information resources management
activities, the production and distribution of technical and
nontechnical injury prevention and control publications and
information, and the conduct of health education and health promotion
activities; and (9) provides overall guidance and support for center-
wide grant activities.
Office of Policy and Partnerships (CUH12). (1) Manages issues
proactively in order to minimize their negative effects, maximize their
potential opportunities, and avoid the need for crisis management; (2)
reviews, prepares, and coordinates policy and briefing documents; (3)
conducts monitoring and analysis of policy issues potentially affecting
NCIPC and its constituents; (4) provides information for the
development of NCIPC's annual budget submission and supporting
documents; (5) engages in partnerships with external organizations to
meet mutual goals; (6) coordinates partnership activities across NCIPC;
(7) identifies and defines emerging or cross-cutting long-term policy
issues and develops action plans that support and advance action; (8)
advises NCIPC and CDC leadership and staff on policy and partnership
issues relevant to NCIPC; (9) oversees and coordinates performance-
related activities for NCIPC; and (10) provides liaison with staff
offices and other officials of CDC.
Office of Program Management and Operations (CUH13). (1) Plans,
coordinates, and provides administrative and management support,
advice, and guidance to NCIPC; (2) coordinates NCIPC-wide
administrative management and support services in the areas of fiscal
management, personnel, travel, and other administrative services; (3)
prepares annual budget formulation and budget justifications; (4)
coordinates NCIPC requirements relating to contracts, grants,
cooperative agreements, and reimbursable agreements; (5) develops and
implements administrative policies, procedures, and operations, as
appropriate, for NCIPC, and prepares special reports and studies, as
required, in the administrative management areas; and (6) maintains
liaison with related staff offices and other officials of CDC.
Office of Communication (CUH14). (1) Provides ongoing communication
leadership and support to NCIPC's Office of the Director and divisions
in furthering the Center's mission to prevent violence and
unintentional injury and to reduce their consequences; (2) leads
strategic planning for communications and branding programs and
projects for NCIPC and injury and violence issues; (3) through matrix
management, provides strategic communication direction and technical
assistance across NCIPC to ensure all health communication activities
are evidence-based and demonstrate impact; (4) leads and oversees news
media strategy and evaluation, including news response, media
monitoring, proactive media engagement, media training, and long lead
pitching; (5) oversees, manages and executes CDC web and digital
governance through matrix management and work group structures; (6)
leads digital communication and marketing strategies, and manages
digital channels; (7) executes web development for the NCIPC intranet;
provides technical assistance and training to OD offices in accessing
and using NCIPC wiki for internal communication and information
sharing; (8) manages and coordinates clearance of NCIPC print and non-
print materials, ensuring adherence to and consistency with CDC and
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) information and
publication policies and guidelines; (9) facilitates cross-division,
and cross-CIO coordination of health communication activities, sharing
of lessons learned, and development of best practices; (10) serves as
primary liaison between NCIPC and CDC's Office of the Associate
Director for Communication (OADC); (11) coordinates and leads
implementation of CDC-wide communication initiatives and policies,
including health literacy, plain language, and CDC branding; (12)
provides communication support to OD offices and technical assistance
and training in accessing centralized communication systems available
through OADC and other offices; (13) provides oversight and approval
for CDC logo licensing requests from external partner organizations and
involving NCIPC divisions and programs; (14) represents NCIPC on cross-
CIO and external committees, workgroups, and at conferences relating to
health communication activities; and (15) in carrying out these
functions, develops and manages relationships with a wide range of
partners and customers, including other PHS agencies, federal and state
departments and agencies, and private organizations.
Office of the Associate Director of Science (CUH17). (1) Ensures
NCIPC produces the highest quality, most useful and most relevant
science possible; (2) guides and mentors other scientists by helping
link scientists with the tools they need to succeed; (3) oversees
scientific clearance for NCIPC and sends documents for cross-clearance
to other centers and reviews documents from other centers for cross
clearance; (4) conducts peer review of intramural research and
scientific programs; (5) provides information and guidance to the staff
regarding scientific
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issues and provides scientific leadership for the center; (6) serves as
a scientific expert and a key resource for information through linkage
to staff and resources in the center; (7) supervises Institutional
Review Board activities and is responsible for Office of Management and
Budget-Paperwork Reduction Act activities for the center; (8) assures
scientists follow CDC's policies on data release and sharing; (9)
provides leadership, management, and oversight for NCIPC's external
advisory board; (10) provides oversight and support for the Extramural
Research Program Office (ERPO) to include planning, developing,
coordinating, and evaluating extramural research activities in
cooperation with centers, divisions, and offices within the Office of
Non-communicable Diseases, Injury and Environmental Health; (11)
directs the extramural research program by planning, coordinating,
developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating extramural
research that is designed to address center priorities; (12)
participates with divisions and offices within the center to establish
research priorities for the center; (13) provides scientific leadership
in the areas of extramural research supported by the center; (14)
promotes and prepares initiatives to stimulate extramural research in
relevant priority areas; (15) coordinates and conducts in-depth
external peer review and secondary program relevance review of
extramural research applications by use of consultant expert panels;
(16) makes recommendations to the center director on award selections
and staff members serve as the program officials in conjunction with
CDC grants management and policy officials to implement and monitor the
scientific, technical, and administrative aspects of awards; (17)
facilitates scientific collaborations between external and internal
investigators; (18) disseminates and evaluates extramural research
progress, findings, and impact; and (19) develops extramural research
policies and implements those policies within NCIPC.
Division of Violence Prevention (CUHC). (1) Provides leadership in
developing and executing a national program for the prevention and
control of non-occupational violence-related injuries and death which
addresses, but is not limited to, youth violence, intimate partner
violence, sexual violence, suicide, elder abuse, and child abuse; (2)
develops and disseminates policies, recommendations, and guidelines for
the prevention of violence and its consequences; (3) proposes goals and
objectives for national violence prevention and control programs,
monitors progress toward these goals and objectives, and recommends and
develops guidelines for priority prevention and control activities; (4)
facilitates similar strategic planning activities by other federal,
state, and local agencies, academic institutions, and private and other
public organizations; (5) plans, directs, conducts, and supports
research focused on the causes of violence and the development and
evaluation of strategies to prevent and control violence-related
injuries and deaths; (6) plans, establishes, and evaluates surveillance
systems to monitor national trends in morbidity, mortality,
disabilities, and cost of violence-related injuries and deaths, and
facilitates the development of surveillance systems by state and local
agencies; (7) plans, conducts, supports, and evaluates demonstration
projects and programs to prevent and control violence; (8) provides
technical assistance, consultation, training, and epidemiological,
statistical, educational, and other technical services to assist state
and local health departments and community-based organizations in the
planning, development, implementation, evaluation, and overall
improvement of violence prevention programs; (9) supports the
dissemination of research findings and transfer of violence prevention
and control technologies to federal, state, and local agencies, private
organizations, and other national and international groups; and (10) in
carrying out the above functions, collaborates with other Divisions of
NCIPC, CDC Centers/Institute/Offices (CIO), DHHS agencies, other
federal, state, and local departments and agencies, academic
institutions, and voluntary, private sector, and international
organizations, as appropriate.
Office of the Director (CUHC1). (1) Plans, directs, and evaluates
the activities of the Division; (2) provides national leadership and
guidance in policy formation and program division; (3) provides
national leadership and guidance in policy formation and program
planning, development, and evaluation; (4) provides administrative,
fiscal, and technical support for Division programs and units; (5)
assures multi-disciplinary collaboration in violence prevention and
control activities; (6) provides leadership for developing research in
etiologic, epidemiologic, and behavioral aspects of violence prevention
and control, and for coordinating activities within the division and
others involved in violence prevention; (7) prepares, edits, and
monitors clearance of manuscripts for publication in scientific and
technical journals and publications, including articles and guidelines
published in MMWR, and other publications for the public; (8) prepares,
tracks and coordinates controlled and general correspondence; (9)
prepares responses and coordinates provision of materials requested by
Congress and the Department; (10) collaborates with subject matter
experts, program and policy staff, develops and implements
communication strategies, campaigns, and plans to meet the needs of
division programs and mission; (11) develops tailored messages and
materials to promote dissemination of scientific findings, evidence-
based prevention strategies, priority recommendations, and guidelines
through various media sources; (12) coordinates with NCIPC Office of
Communication to execute and support NCIPC and CDC-wide communication
initiatives and policies; (13) provides consultation on international
violence prevention and control activities of the Division; (14)
collaborates, as appropriate, with other divisions and offices in
NCIPC, and with other CIOs throughout CDC; (15) collaborates, as
appropriate, with non-governmental organizations to achieve the mission
of the Division; and (16) establishes linkages with other CIOs and
national level prevention partners that impact on violence prevention
programs.
Surveillance Branch (CUHCB). (1) Conducts national and
international surveillance and surveys to identify new and monitor
recognized forms of violence and its consequences, analyzes incidence
and prevalence data, and monitors trends in violence and its trajectory
across the lifespan; (2) provides expert consultation to state, local,
and international health agencies on surveillance system design and
implementation and use of surveillance data to describe the burden of
violence; (3) develops and implements uniform definitions for public
health surveillance of various forms of violence and related outcomes;
(4) monitors the activities of contracts, cooperative agreements, and
grants to ensure operational guidelines are met; (5) provides
information on violence surveillance to the scientific community and
the general public through regular publication in peer-reviewed
journals and CDC publications as well as through presentations to
professional conferences and other stakeholder
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groups; (6) works with other branches to provide consultation,
collaboration, and to ensure the use of surveillance data to inform
research and prevention efforts; and (7) provides leadership and
expands collaboration with other federal, state, local, voluntary, and
professional and international organizations in all aspects of
surveillance of violence and its consequences.
Research and Evaluation Branch (CUHCC). (1) Plans, directs,
conducts, and supports etiologic and epidemiologic research focused on
casual factors, risk and protective factors, and psychosocial,
cultural, and contextual determinants for violence and its
consequences; (2) plans, directs, conducts, and supports applied
research focused on the evaluation of strategies, policies, and
interventions to prevent violent behavior and violence-related injuries
and deaths; (3) uses research findings to develop new strategies,
policies, and interventions or improve the impact of existing
strategies, policies, and interventions to prevent and reduce violent
behavior, its risk factors, and its consequences; (4) develops and
evaluates methodologies for conducting program evaluation; (5)
evaluates the effectiveness and impact of violence prevention
interventions, strategies, policies, and interventions as practiced or
implemented by public health agencies and organizations at the
national/regional and state/local levels; (6) conducts research to
examine the context, processes, and factors that influence effective
and efficient dissemination/diffusion, uptake/adoption, implementation,
translation, and sustainability of violence prevention strategies,
policies, and interventions; (7) serves as a resource, collaborates,
and provides technical assistance in applying research and evaluation
results and techniques to the ongoing assessment and improvement of
violence prevention and control programs; (8) collaborates on planning,
translating, and disseminating research and evaluation results to other
branches, grantees, and prevention partners; (9) collaborates with
other branches to stimulate surveillance and programmatic activities
and to ensure integration of activities across the public health model;
(10) monitors activities of contracts, cooperative agreements, and
grants to ensure operational objectives are being met; (11) contributes
to the research literature by publishing regularly in peer-reviewed
journals and CDC-sponsored publications that include, but are not
limited to, etiology and evaluation research and syntheses; and (12)
collaborates with other components within CDC, PHS, and DHHS and other
federal agencies, national professional, voluntary and philanthropic
organizations and international agencies.
Prevention Practice and Translation Branch (CUHCD). (1) Provides
leadership and support in public health practice and the application of
science for maximal benefit of violence prevention programmatic
efforts; (2) develops and manages liaison and collaborative
relationships with professional, community, international, federal, and
other voluntary agencies involved in violence prevention activities;
(3) provides support, training, and technical assistance that applies
sound prevention principles and systematic processes to enhance public
health practice, including program development, implementation, and
improvement; (4) applies evidence from translational science and
continuous quality improvement to help communities select, adopt,
adapt, implement, disseminate, sustain, and scale up programs,
strategies, and activities that will lead to successful violence
prevention outcomes; (5) identifies findings, lessons learned and
evidence from the field and collaborates with internal and external
partners to inform research, surveillance, and program evaluation that
builds the evidence base for effective violence prevention; (6)
synthesizes and translates relevant research, evaluation findings,
evidence, and trends and assuring that communication and marketing
technologies are applied to the development of practical tools,
products, trainings, and guidance that enhances violence prevention
programs, strategies, and activities; (7) communicates internally and
externally the important work and progress of the staff, grantees, and
partners; and (8) collaborates with internal and external partners to
disseminate what works to prevent violence into widespread practice.
Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention (CUHD). (1) Provides
leadership and coordination of a national program for the prevention
and control of non-occupational unintentional injuries through
collaborative efforts with federal, state and local agencies, public,
private sector organizations and academic institutions; (2) proposes
goals and objectives for linking health system and injury control
activities with public health activities, including surveillance,
prevention, health care and rehabilitation of injury; (3) proposes
goals and objectives for the prevention and control of unintentional
injuries, monitors and evaluates progress towards their achievement,
determines priority recommendations, develops guidelines and
facilitates implementation strategies in cooperation with governmental
and non-governmental organizations; (4) provides scientific
consultation and technical advice to states and localities to increase
their capacity to develop, implement, and evaluate injury prevention
programs, surveillance activities and the integration of health system
and trauma system initiatives in surveillance, prevention, quality
improvement with initiatives in the public health system; (5) plans,
establishes and evaluates surveillance systems to monitor national
trends in mortality, morbidity, disabilities, rehabilitation, and the
cost of unintentional injuries; (6) plans, directs, conducts and
supports research to assess environmental, social, behavioral, and
other risk factors and evaluate intervention activities to prevent and
control unintentional injuries; (7) plans and directs strategies to
collect, analyze, and interpret scientific findings from surveillance
and epidemiologic research activities for use in evaluating trends,
setting priorities, and developing intervention strategies for
unintentional injuries, (8) plans, directs, supports and evaluates
demonstration programs to prevent and control unintentional injuries;
(9) supports dissemination of injury prevention and control research
findings and transfer technologies to federal, state and local health
agencies, and public and private sector organizations with
responsibilities and interests related to unintentional injuries and
the linkage between health systems and public health; (10) supports
training to increase the number and competence of personnel engaged in
injury prevention and control research practices; (11) facilitates the
development of scientific approaches to injury prevention and control
through publication of research findings in professional journals and
through participation in national and international meetings, seminars,
and conferences; and (12) supports NCIPC through collaborative efforts
with NCIPC Divisions and Offices, CDC CIOs, DHHS agencies, and other
federal departments and agencies, state and local agencies and
professional and private organizations.
Home, Recreation, and Transportation Branch (CUHDB). (1) Provides
leadership and coordination of a national program for the prevention
and control of non-occupational unintentional injuries that occur at
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home, in the community, and during transportation through collaborative
efforts with federal, state and local agencies, and public and private
sector organizations; (2) proposes goals and objectives for the
prevention and control of unintentional injuries, monitors and
evaluates progress towards their achievement, determines priority
recommendations, develops guidelines, and facilitates implementation
strategies in cooperation with other federal agencies, state and local
health agencies, academic institutions, public and private sector
organizations, and international agencies; (3) provides scientific
consultation and technical advice to states and localities to increase
their capacity to develop, implement, and evaluate unintentional injury
programs and surveillance activities; (4) plans, establishes, and
evaluates surveillance systems to monitor national and state-level
trends in morbidity, mortality, disabilities, and costs of
unintentional injuries; (5) plans, directs, conducts, and supports
research to assess environmental, social, behavioral, and other risk
factors and to develop and evaluate intervention activities to prevent
and control unintentional injuries; (6) plans and directs strategies to
collect, analyze, and interpret scientific findings from surveillance,
behavioral, and epidemiologic research activities for use in evaluating
trends, setting priorities, and developing intervention strategies for
unintentional injuries; (7) plans, directs, supports, and evaluates
demonstration programs to prevent and control unintentional injuries;
(8) supports dissemination of unintentional injury prevention and
control research, translation, and implementation to federal, state,
and local health agencies, public and private sector organizations, and
other national and international groups with responsibilities and
interests related to unintentional injury; (9) supports training to
increase the number and competence of personnel engaged in
unintentional injury prevention and control research and practices; and
(10) disseminates scientific findings, evidence-based prevention
strategies and unintentional injury prevention guidelines through
publication of research findings in professional journals and
government reports; through participation in national and international
meetings, seminars, and conferences; and through the development of
communication initiatives.
Health Systems and Trauma Systems Branch (CUHDC). (1) Conducts
research on the impact of health systems and trauma systems in
decreasing the burden of injury; (2) works with local and state health
programs to determine how to integrate surveillance, injury prevention
and quality improvement activities within health systems and trauma
systems in order to decrease the burden of injury; (3) uses
surveillance systems to monitor traumatic brain injury and poisonings
to create incidence rates and prevention programs to provide data for
planning in the community and the health systems; (4) conducts research
on the medical aspects of injury, disability and health services; (5)
supports epidemiologic analysis, applied research, and demonstration
projects to improve the effectiveness of healthcare and trauma systems,
as well as understand how health and trauma systems can best be
integrated with public health prevention efforts; (6) develops
scientific agendas for the NCIPC extramural research program; (7)
serves as a focal point for traumatic brain injury prevention within
CDC; (8) supports training programs and disseminates research findings
to strengthen the competence of practitioners and researchers in the
areas of traumatic brain injury, poisoning, integration of injury
prevention and control within public health systems, health systems and
trauma systems; and (9) develops guidelines to reduce or mitigate the
impact of poisoning, traumatic brain injury, and to help optimize the
treatment of injuries within various health systems.
Division of Analysis Research and Practice Integration (CUHF). (1)
Works to reduce injuries and violence by providing high quality and
innovative data products, support for state injury prevention and
control programs, injury surveillance, program evaluation, and research
that promote the dissemination and application of science into program
practice at NCIPC and the broader injury and violence prevention field;
(2) provides expertise in statistics, computer programming, data
management, economics, public health practice, surveillance,
evaluation, and research to engage NCIPC and the injury and violence
prevention community; (3) produces new scientific knowledge that
informs policies, practice, and programs in the injury field; (4)
identifies promising or potential best practices in the injury field
that may require additional scientific investigation; (5) develops
evidence-based public health practices, policies, or programs that
prevent or reduce injuries and violence; (6) sustains a public health
infrastructure for injury and violence prevention at federal, state,
local and tribal levels; and (7) promotes state and local health
department's integration of science based public health practice,
state-level surveillance, and evaluation with other public health and
nonpublic health sectors, such as chronic diseases, HIV/AIDS,
transportation initiatives, city or community planning, etc.
Office of the Director (CUHF1). (1) Establishes and interprets
policies and determines program priorities; (2) provides national
leadership and guidance in injury prevention and control program
planning, development, and evaluation; (3) provides administrative,
fiscal, and technical support for division programs and units; (4)
assures multi-disciplinary collaboration in injury and violence
prevention and control program implementation; (5) provides leadership
for the development of research to inform policies, practice, and
programs in the injury field; (6) prepares and monitors clearance of
manuscripts for publication in scientific and technical journals and
publications, including articles and guidelines published in the MMWR,
and other publications for the public; (7) prepares, tracks and
coordinates responses to all inquiries from Congress, the public, and
DHHS; (8) collaborates with subject matter experts, program and policy
staff, develops and implements communication strategies, campaigns, and
plans to meet the needs of division programs and mission; (9) develops
tailored messages and materials to promote dissemination of scientific
findings, evidence-based prevention strategies, priority
recommendations, and guidelines through traditional media outlets,
social media, and other channels; (10) coordinates with the NCIPC
Office of Communication to execute and support NCIPC and CDC-wide
communication initiatives and policies; and (11) establishes linkages
and collaborates, as appropriate, with other divisions and offices in
NCIPC, other CIOs throughout CDC, and with national partners that
impact on injury and violence prevention programs.
Statistics, Programming & Economics Branch (CUHFB). (1) Develops,
evaluates, and implements innovative statistical, economic, policy
research, computer programming, and data management methods for
application to injury surveillance, epidemiologic studies, program
evaluation and programmatic activities; (2) provides expert
consultation in statistics, economics, policy research, programming,
and data management to all NCIPC staff; (3) collaborates with NCIPC
scientists on epidemiologic
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studies and provides associated technical advice in the areas of study
design, sampling, and the collection, management, analysis, and
interpretation of injury data; (4) coordinates, manages, maintains and
provides tabulations and maps from national surveillance systems and
other data sources that contain national, state and local data on
injury morbidity, mortality and economic costs; (5) prepares and
produces high quality statistical, economic and policy reports and
publications material for information presentation and dissemination by
NCIPC staff; (6) advises the Office of the Director, NCIPC, in the area
of data and systems management and on surveillance and statistical
analysis issues relevant to injury program planning and evaluation; and
(7) carries out functions listed in numbers (1) to (6) to collaborate
with other Divisions/Offices in NCIPC, CDC C/I/Os, PHS agencies, other
federal departments and agencies, and private organizations as
appropriate.
Practice Integration and Evaluation Branch (CUHFC). (1) Monitors
and evaluates programs and policies and disseminates findings to
promote program accountability and program improvement; (2) promotes an
enhanced and sustained infrastructure for a public health approach to
injury and violence prevention at state, local and tribal levels; (3)
generates and moves practice based knowledge into program practice and
research fields; (4) provides expertise in science based public health
practice, state-level injury surveillance, and evaluation to state and
local health departments; and (5) collaborates with NCIPC OD offices,
Division of Community Safety and Trauma Systems, and the Division of
Violence Prevention on cross-cutting injury and violence prevention
programs, policies, state-level surveillance, and evaluation.
Dated September 25, 2012.
Sherri A. Berger,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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