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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 
Translation Advisory Committee for Diabetes Prevention and 
Control Programs: Meeting

    In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention (CDC) announces the following committee meeting.

    Name: Translation Advisory Committee for Diabetes Prevention and 
Control Programs.

    Times and Dates: 9 a.m.-6 p.m., September 15, 1999; 9 a.m.-1 
p.m., September 16, 1999.

    Place: Holiday Inn Select, 130 Clairemont Avenue, Decatur, 
Georgia 30030, telephone 404/371-0204.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available. 
The meeting room accommodates approximately 50 people.
    Purpose: This committee is charged with advising the Director, 
CDC, regarding policy issues and broad strategies for diabetes 
translation activities and control programs designed to reduce risk 
factors, health services utilization, costs, morbidity, and 
mortality associated with diabetes and its complications. The 
Committee identifies research advances and technologies ready for 
translation into widespread community practice; recommends broad 
public health strategies to be implemented through public health 
interventions; identifies opportunities for surveillance and 
epidemiologic assessment of diabetes and related complications; and 
for the purpose of assuring the most effective use and organization 
of resources, maintains liaison and coordination of programs within 
the Federal, voluntary, and private sectors involved in the 
provision of services to people with diabetes.

    Matters to be Discussed: The Guide to Community Preventive 
Services, under the auspices of the U.S. Public Health Service, a 
Task Force on Community Preventive Services is developing a Guide to 
Community Preventive Services. The Guide will summarize what is 
known about the effectiveness of population-based interventions for 
prevention and control. Where data exist, the Guide will also 
summarize information on the cost-effectiveness of these 
interventions. Based on available evidence, the Guide will provide 
recommendations on these population-based interventions and methods 
for their delivery.
    Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
    Contact person for more information: Norma Loner, Committee 
Management Specialist, Division of Diabetes Translation, National 
Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC, 
4770 Buford Highway, NE, M/S K-10, Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3717, 
telephone 770/488-5376.
    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: July 26, 1999.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 99-19497 Filed 7-29-99; 8:45 am]
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