[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 18 (Thursday, January 28, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 4424]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-2012]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Office of the Director, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC), Announces the Following Meeting

    Name: Guide to Community Preventive Services (GCPS) Task Force 
Meeting.
    Times and Dates: 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m., February 10, 1999. 8 a.m.-
3:30 p.m., February 11, 1999.
    Place: The Sheraton Buckhead Hotel Atlanta, 3405 Lenox Road, 
Atlanta, Georgia 30326. Telephone 404/261-9250.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. 
The meeting room accommodates approximately 75 people.
    Purpose: The mission of the Task Force is to develop and publish 
a Guide to Community Preventive Services, which is based on the best 
available scientific evidence and current expertise regarding 
essential public health services and what works in the delivery of 
those services.
    Matters to be Discussed: Agenda items include an update on the 
Healthy Aging Project by the Health Care Financing Administration; a 
progress report on the development of the Guide; a discussion of the 
key issues for methods development; a discussion on the key 
decisions for chapter development: review of logic frameworks and 
proposed interventions for the Sociocultural Environment, Sexual 
Behavior, and Cancer chapters; a discussion of the implementation 
and evaluation plans for the Guide; a discussion of cost 
effectiveness; a progress report on the draft manuscripts: Methods, 
Data Collection Procedures and Instrument for Systematic Reviews, 
Quality of Execution, and Scope and Organization of the Guide; a 
discussion on the timeline for the development of the Guide; an 
update on the revisions and field test results of the Vaccine 
Preventable Diseases chapter; a discussion on the prevention 
research agenda issues and a discussion on planning the evidentiary 
database.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Persons interested in reserving a space for this meeting should 
call 404/639-4301 by close of business on February 5, 1999.
    Contact Person for Additional Information: Marguerite 
Pappaioanou, Chief, CPS Guide Development Activity, Division of 
Prevention Research and Analytic Methods, Epidemiology Program 
Office, CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, M/S D-01, Atlanta, Georgia 
30333. Telephone 404/639-4301.
    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.

    Dated: January 22, 1999.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 99-2012 Filed 1-27-99; 8:45 am]
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