[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 93 (Monday, May 14, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22263-22264]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-10224]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control, (BSC, NCIPC)
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the CDC
announces the following meeting for the Board of Scientific Counselors,
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, (BSC, NCIPC). This
meeting is open to the public limited only by the space and ports
available. The meeting room accommodates 70 participants and there will
be 125 ports available. Due to the limited accommodations by phone
ports and room size, we are encouraging the public to please register
using the link provided: Register Here. There will be public comment
periods from 11:10 a.m.-11:40 a.m., on June 19, 2018, and from 11:30
a.m.-11:45 a.m., on June 20, 2018. All public comments will be limited
to two-minutes per speaker.
DATES: The meeting will be held on June 19, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m.,
EDT and June 20, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m., EDT.
ADDRESSES: Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chamblee Campus,
4770 Buford Highway, Building 107, Conference Room 1-A/B, Atlanta,
Georgia 30341 and via Teleconference: Dial-In Number: 1-888-769-9404,
Participant Code: 5536840. (U.S. & Canada Participants) 1-210-234-0065,
Participant Code: 5536840 (International Participants).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gwendolyn H. Cattledge, Ph.D.,
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M.S.E.H., Deputy Associate Director for Science, NCIPC, CDC, 4770
Buford Highway NE, Mailstop F-63, Atlanta, GA 30341, Telephone (770)
488-1430, Email address: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose: The Board will: (1) Conduct, encourage, cooperate with,
and assist other appropriate public health authorities, scientific
institutions, and scientists in the conduct of research,
investigations, experiments, demonstrations, and studies relating to
the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention of physical
and mental diseases, and other impairments; (2) assist States and their
political subdivisions in preventing and suppressing communicable and
non-communicable diseases and other preventable conditions and in
promoting health and well-being; and (3) conduct and assist in research
and control activities related to injury. The Board of Scientific
Counselors makes recommendations regarding policies, strategies,
objectives, and priorities; and reviews progress toward injury
prevention goals and provides evidence in injury prevention-related
research and programs. The Board also provides advice on the
appropriate balance of intramural and extramural research, the
structure, progress and performance of intramural programs. The Board
is designed to provide guidance on extramural scientific program
matters, including the: (1) Review of extramural research concepts for
funding opportunity announcements; (2) conduct of Secondary Peer Review
of extramural research grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts
applications received in response to the funding opportunity
announcements as it relates to the Center's programmatic balance and
mission; (3) submission of secondary review recommendations to the
Center Director of applications to be considered for funding support;
(4) review of research portfolios, and (5) review of program proposals.
Matters To Be Considered: Day One: The agenda will include
discussions on Methodologies for Estimating Rates of Opioid
Prescribing; a request and BSC vote to establish a workgroup to
estimate, or provide reference points for, opioid prescribing for acute
and chronic pain; the Center's focus on science matters to include
research strategies needed to guide the Center's focus on reducing
opioid overdose; and CDC and NIH research to reduce opioid overdose.
Public comments on the formation of the Opioid Prescribing Estimates
workgroup must be made during the comment period on June 19, 2018,
11:10 a.m.-11:40 a.m. to be considered before the BSC vote. Day Two:
The agenda will include discussions on reducing youth violence through
CDC's National Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention, and
discuss improvements to Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting
System (WISQARS) data visualization. Agenda items are subject to change
as priorities dictate.
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 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Claudette Grant,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2018-10224 Filed 5-11-18; 8:45 am]
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