Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority, 61757-61761 [2012-24771]

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• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 197 (Thursday, October 11, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61757-61761]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-24771]



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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 
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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 
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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.
[FR Doc. 2012-24771 Filed 10-10-12; 8:45 am]
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