[Federal Register: October 6, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 193)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

 
National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics: Meeting

    Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the Department of 
Health and Human Services announces the following advisory committee 
meeting.

    Name: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), 
Subcommittee on Populations.
    Time and Date: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., November 13, 2003, 8:30 a.m. 
to 5 p.m., November 14, 2003.
    Place: The Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, 
CA 94105, Phone: (415) 512-1111.
    Status: Open.
    Purpose: The Subcommittee on Populations, NCVHS, is holding a 
hearing to discuss issues relating to statistics for the 
determination of health disparities in racial and ethnic 
populations. The focus will be on issues related to the collection 
and use of data on race and ethnicity for Asian American, Native 
Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander populations. Invited panelists will 
address methodologic issues (e.g., misclassification, small area 
analysis, confidentiality concerns) in the collection of data on 
race and ethnicity, use of mixed race data, language issues, 
measurement of ethnic identity, and perspectives on variables beyond 
race and ethnicity needed to determined health disparities in racial 
and ethnic groups.
    For Further Information Contact: Additional information about 
this meeting as well as summaries of past meetings and a roster of 
committee members may be obtained from Audrey L. Burwell, Office of 
Minority Health, 1101 Wooton Parkway, 6th Floor, Room 600, 
Rockville, Maryland 20852, telephone: (301) 443-9923, e-mail alburwell@osophs.dhhs.gov; or Marjorie S. Greenberg, Executive 
Secretary, NCVHS, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention, Room 2413, 3311 Toledo Road, 
Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone: (301) 458-4245. Information 
also is available on the NCVHS home page of the HHS web site: http://www.ncvhs.hhs.gov/
 where an agenda and more details about 
participation in the meeting or Subcommittee deliberations will be 
posed when available.
    Should you require reasonable accommodation, please contact the 
CDC Office of Equal Employment Opportunity on (301) 458-4EEO (4336) 
as soon as possible.

    Dated: September 23, 2003.
James Scanlon,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Data Policy, Office 
of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
[FR Doc. 03-25284 Filed 10-3-03; 8:45 am]

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