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and renumber the remaining items
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Internal Emergency Management
Branch (CAJSEE). To lead a
comprehensive internal emergency
management program that efficiently
coordinates CDC resources to, first and
foremost, protect lives, then to safeguard
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mitigation, preparedness training,
response, continuity and recovery from
all natural, man-made and technological
hazards that may impact CDC facilities:
(1) Implements, maintains, and updates
CDC’s Occupant Emergency Plan/
Program (OEP); (2) conducts and
evaluates annual tabletop, functional,
and full-scale exercises for all CDC
facilities with Designated Officials and
Occupant Emergency Organizations
(OEO); (3) recommends future
emergency management and emergency
response-related programs, policies,
and/or procedures; (4) provides
leadership and coordination in planning
and implementation for internal
emergencies; and (5) provides
leadership and coordination in planning
and implementation for internal
emergency incidents affecting the CDC
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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 79 FR 32739–32740,
dated June 7, 2014) is amended to
reflect the reorganization of the Global
Immunization Division within the
Center for Global Health.
Section C–B, Organization and
Functions, is hereby amended as
follows:
Delete in its entirety the title and the
mission and function statements for the
Global Immunization Division (CWK)
and insert the following:
Global Immunization Division (CWK).
The Global Immunization Division
(GID) protects the health of Americans
and global citizens by preventing
disease, disability, and death worldwide
from vaccine-preventable diseases. In
carrying out its mission, GID: (1)
Provides national leadership and
coordination of the Center for Global
Health (CGH) efforts to eradicate polio;
eliminate measles and rubella in World
Health Organization (WHO) regions;
strengthens global surveillance to
prevent, detect, and respond to vaccine
preventable diseases; strengthens
routine immunization programs;
introduces new and under-utilized
vaccines; and promotes safe injection
practices in collaboration with
international organizations and CDC
Centers/Institute/Offices (CIOs); (2)
provides technical expertise to global
partners—WHO, United Nations
International Children’s Emergency
Fund (UNICEF), Global Alliance for
Vaccine Immunization (GAVI), and the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
(BMGF)—involved in global
immunization activities and participates
in international advisory group
meetings on immunization issues; (3)
ensures provision of technical expertise
on evidence-based research, strategies,
and policy at global and country levels
in collaboration with multilateral and
bilateral partners; (4) collaborates with
other countries and administers grants
to WHO, Pan American Health
Organization (PAHO), UNICEF, and
other international partners and
advocacy groups as appropriate for the
provision of technical, programmatic,
and laboratory support, and vaccine
procurement for initiatives to support
global immunization targets; (5)
improves surveillance for polio,
measles, rubella, and other vaccine
preventable diseases by working with
individual countries and the WHO
regional offices to improve surveillance
and to collaborate with groups within
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and outside CDC to expand
environmental surveillance; (6) achieves
global immunization targets by
supporting the strengthening of the
implementation of national
immunization policies; (7) strengthens
appropriate vaccination policy
development and implementation,
identifies barriers to vaccine acceptance,
and develops communication strategies
to promote vaccine uptake and disease
reduction; (8) develops strategies to
improve the technical skills and
problem-solving abilities of program
managers and health care workers in
other countries; (9) prepares
immunization articles based on findings
for publication in international
professional journals and for
presentation at international
conferences; and (10) provides technical
and operational leadership for CDC’s
activities in support of the initiatives.
Office of the Director (CWK1). (1)
Provides leadership, management, and
oversight for all division activities
including administrative, budget,
finance, research, workforce
development, management and
operations; (2) assists leadership in the
formulation and defense of GID budget
requests, and monitors and seeks
strategies to mitigate division risks; (3)
provides coordination and oversight of
the division’s personnel actions
including liaison with CGH and CDC’s
human resource office; (4) provides
oversight for workforce planning,
recruitment, deployment, field staff
support, professional development, and
monitoring and evaluation; (5) develops
and promotes partnerships with other
organizations to support global
immunization activities and works
closely with partners in academia; (6)
liaises and coordinates with other CDC
offices engaged in global immunization
activities; (7) provides leadership and
oversight for scientific and
programmatic activities related to the
implementation of GID’s objectives and
ensures that the research and economic
portfolios are integrated across the
branches and with field activities; (8)
identifies program policy priorities
through strategic planning and other
processes as appropriate; (9) clears all
scientific publications from the division
working in close collaboration with
management of GID; (10) provides
coordination of the division’s
communications activities including
liaison with other CDC communications
offices and those of our partner
agencies; (11) represents CDC, CGH, and
the division at global and national
meetings and other fora for global
immunization activities; (12) provides
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oversight for all Embassy/International
Cooperative Administrative Supportive
Services costs for the division’s field
staff; and (13) works in close
collaboration and interfaces with CGH
and other CIOs, global immunization
partners, and other collaborating
partners in matters relating to program
development and research.
Polio Eradication Branch (CWKB). (1)
Achieves global polio eradication in
partnership with the Global Polio
Eradication Initiative (GPEI) and
optimize polio investments toward
future health goals; (2) acts as CDC’s
lead for polio eradication activities in
countries within Africa in partnership
with GPEI; (3) works with polio free
regions to strengthen their efforts to
remain polio-free, particularly in the
areas of surveillance, outbreak
preparedness, containment and legacy
planning; (4) improves surveillance for
polio by working with individual
countries, WHO regional offices, and
groups within and outside CDC to
expand environmental surveillance; (5)
is prepared to respond quickly to
outbreaks of wild poliovirus and
circulating vaccine-derived
polioviruses; (6) leads work in countries
at high risk for polio; (7) leads activities
to achieve poliovirus containment by
the required deadlines; (8) oversees
technical aspects of specific polio
activities funded by CDC; (9) prepares
countries for certification; (10) leads or
collaborates in research to support polio
eradication goals; (11) identifies
opportunities to leverage polio
eradication assets to promote
sustainable improvements in routine
immunization systems, in collaboration
with the Immunization Systems Branch;
(12) defines and ensures a sustainability
legacy for the polio eradication program
in addition to polio eradication itself
and identifies opportunities to
implement strategies toward this goal;
(13) coordinates with key partners
within and outside CDC; (14) promotes
the National Stop Transmission of Polio
(NSTOP)program; (15) develops
priorities for CDC’s involvement in
polio eradication research and
innovation activities; (16) collects and
analyzes data on wild polio virus and
vaccine perceived polio virus incidence,
surveillance performance and
immunization status based on acute
flaccid paralysis surveillance and
supplemental immunization activities
implementation quality; (17) provides
support to regional and country teams
in assessing risk of outbreaks of wild
poliovirus and circulating vaccinederived polioviruses; responding to
outbreaks; planning and implementing
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mitigating activities to prevent
outbreaks; improving surveillance; and
assisting in development of
documentation to support certification
and containment; and (18) supports the
completion of global polio eradication
through strengthening surveillance,
innovation and research.
Accelerated Disease Control and
Vaccine Preventable Diseases
Surveillance Branch (CWKC). (1)
Achieves accelerated disease control
goals for vaccine preventable diseases
(VPD), with a high focus on eliminating
measles and rubella in WHO regions in
partnership with the Measles and
Rubella Initiative (MRI), and
strengthening global surveillance to
prevent, detect and respond to VPDs; (2)
leads global and regional measles
elimination goals; (3) provides expert
technical input toward development,
evaluation, and improvement of
program activities and strategies to
mitigate risk and achieve global and
regional measles elimination goals; (4)
monitors measles incidence and risk
through development and analysis of
high quality surveillance data and risk
estimates, estimating burden of disease/
death and verifying elimination; (5)
develops and maintains outbreak
preparedness and respond rapidly to
outbreaks; (6) oversees the technical
aspects of measles activities funded by
CDC; (7) leads global and regional
rubella control and elimination goals;
(8) provides expert technical input to
countries on the development and
implementation of national plans of
action for rubella vaccine introduction
and the control and elimination of
rubella and congenital rubella
syndrome; (9) leads activities of the
MRI, including participation on working
groups, as appropriate; (10) strengthens
labs and lab networks to ensure
appropriate and timely specimen
collection, testing, and result
dissemination; (11) develops and
maintains outbreak control strategies,
including developing mathematical
models to estimate the target age range
for achieving program goals; (12)
provides technical support to reach
global or regional goals for control of
targeted VPDs; (13) provides expert
technical input towards development,
evaluation, and improvement of
program activities and strategies to
mitigate risk and achieve global and
regional VDP control goals; (14)
monitors prevalence, incidence and risk
through development and analysis of
high quality surveillance data and risk
estimates, estimating burden of disease/
death and verifying elimination; (15)
conducts research and evaluation to
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maximize the cost-effectiveness of
elimination and outbreak control
strategies; (16) oversees the technical
aspects of targeted VPD activities
funded by CDC; (17) provides ongoing
support for development,
implementation, quality, and use of
VPD surveillance; (18) evaluates VPD
surveillance systems and improves the
quality, analysis, and use of surveillance
data for program action and decisionmaking; (19) provides technical
assistance in establishing and
maintaining surveillance for diseases
prevented by new or underutilized
vaccines; (20) conducts research and
evaluation to maximize surveillance
performance and cost-effectiveness; and
(21) leads innovative research and
development to strengthen surveillance
and improve laboratory diagnosis.
Immunization Systems Branch
(CWKD). (1) Achieves global
immunization targets by supporting the
strengthening of the implementation of
national immunization policies;
identifies strategies to increase vaccine
demand; promotes the appropriate
introduction and use of quality
vaccines; and strengthens routine
immunization program delivery and
equitable access to vaccines, while
promoting synergies through the child
health agenda; (2) leads development
and implementation of effective
communication strategies that address
issues related to vaccine demand and
uptake; (3) identifies caregiver,
provider, and community determinants
that affect vaccine demand, in order to
develop evidence-based strategies to
remove barriers and increase demand
for immunization; (4) evaluates vaccine
policy development, implementation,
and impact, and advocates for policies
demonstrated to support acceptance of
vaccine; (5) accelerates progress toward
achieving the millennium development
goals of mortality reduction and disease
prevention by advocating and
promoting the appropriate and equitable
introduction of new and underutilized
vaccines; (6) builds evidence and
rationale for vaccine introduction; (7)
secures WHO-prequalification; (8)
provides technical and programmatic
assistance to countries to introduce new
and underutilized vaccines into their
national immunization programs; (9)
evaluates effectiveness of introduction
of new and underutilized vaccines in
terms of uptake, impact on existing
immunization program function, and
potential impact on disease burden; (10)
works with VPD Surveillance Team and
CDC subject matter experts to build
country capacity for future introduction
of new and underutilized vaccines; (11)
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leads inactive polio virus introduction
to immunization systems in oral polio
virus using countries as mandated
through the Immunization Management
Group of the Global Polio Eradication
Initiative; improves routine
immunization systems globally (or
improves access to and utilization of
vaccines globally through strengthening
of routine immunization systems); (12)
develops, evaluates, and scales-up
evidence-based strategies to tackle
inequities in access to and delivery of
vaccines; (13) develops evaluates, and
scales-up comprehensive and
coordinated approaches to integrate
immunization services; (14) promotes
innovation to improve routine
immunization program efficiencies and
increase coverage and impact; (15)
conducts advocacy to national programs
on the need to strengthen immunization
system abilities to monitor, assess and
respond to issues related to vaccine
safety; and (16) conducts operational
research to identify and test
interventions to improve the access and
utilization of immunization services and
provide guidance on what areas are in
need of workforce capacity building
activities.
Strategic Information and Workforce
Development Branch (CWKE). (1) Builds
workforce, systems, and information
capacity to effectively deliver
immunization services in selected
countries; (2) provides technical
assistance and support, guidance, and
advice on statistical analysis and study
design, data management, and data
integrity to the GID; (3) provides
statistical expertise to support internal
data management needs of the division
and field staff (standard setting for
record keeping, archiving, ensuring
reproducibility of analyses); (4)
collaborates with branch and team level
leadership and GID management to
ensure that statistical and
methodological standards continue to
remain an integral part of planning,
conduct, and review of science and
program within GID including with the
context of the official clearance process;
(5) provides GID statistical
representation on internal and external
committees and work groups and at
relevant meetings, workshops, and fora;
(6) promotes capacity building for polio,
other VPDs and immunization functions
in partnership with WHO and UNICEF
through recruiting, coordinating training
of, and deploying STOP teams; (7)
promotes capacity building for polio,
other VPDs and immunization functions
in partnership with WHO and UNICEF;
(8) leads the development of strong
national immunization programs and
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systems through workforce capacity
development; (9) ensures recruitment
for training and WHO deployment for
each STOP team; (10) creates and
maintains strategic partnerships and
collaborations and provides technical
assistance to develop and evaluate
sustainable programs aimed at
increasing capacity and effectiveness of
workforce responsible for implementing
immunization programs; (11) conducts
operational research to identify,
implement and evaluate interventions
aimed at improving immunization (or
integrated public health) workforce
effectiveness and contributes to the
scientific knowledge base regarding
interventions aimed at improving
immunization workforce effectiveness;
(12) leads strengthening routine
immunization systems as mandated
through the Immunization Management
Group of the Global Polio Eradication
Initiative; and (13) leads the
development of strong immunization
systems through improving quality,
management, and use of immunization
data and providing specific technical
skills for program evaluation to include
strategic information, informatics and
information systems, program
evaluation, polio eradication and
endgame strategy, and operational
research.
James D. Seligman,
Acting Chief Operating Officer, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
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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 79 FR 32739-32740, dated June 7, 2014) is
amended to reflect the reorganization of the Global Immunization
Division within the Center for Global Health.
Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as
follows:
Delete in its entirety the title and the mission and function
statements for the Global Immunization Division (CWK) and insert the
following:
Global Immunization Division (CWK). The Global Immunization
Division (GID) protects the health of Americans and global citizens by
preventing disease, disability, and death worldwide from vaccine-
preventable diseases. In carrying out its mission, GID: (1) Provides
national leadership and coordination of the Center for Global Health
(CGH) efforts to eradicate polio; eliminate measles and rubella in
World Health Organization (WHO) regions; strengthens global
surveillance to prevent, detect, and respond to vaccine preventable
diseases; strengthens routine immunization programs; introduces new and
under-utilized vaccines; and promotes safe injection practices in
collaboration with international organizations and CDC Centers/
Institute/Offices (CIOs); (2) provides technical expertise to global
partners--WHO, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund
(UNICEF), Global Alliance for Vaccine Immunization (GAVI), and the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)--involved in global immunization
activities and participates in international advisory group meetings on
immunization issues; (3) ensures provision of technical expertise on
evidence-based research, strategies, and policy at global and country
levels in collaboration with multilateral and bilateral partners; (4)
collaborates with other countries and administers grants to WHO, Pan
American Health Organization (PAHO), UNICEF, and other international
partners and advocacy groups as appropriate for the provision of
technical, programmatic, and laboratory support, and vaccine
procurement for initiatives to support global immunization targets; (5)
improves surveillance for polio, measles, rubella, and other vaccine
preventable diseases by working with individual countries and the WHO
regional offices to improve surveillance and to collaborate with groups
within and outside CDC to expand environmental surveillance; (6)
achieves global immunization targets by supporting the strengthening of
the implementation of national immunization policies; (7) strengthens
appropriate vaccination policy development and implementation,
identifies barriers to vaccine acceptance, and develops communication
strategies to promote vaccine uptake and disease reduction; (8)
develops strategies to improve the technical skills and problem-solving
abilities of program managers and health care workers in other
countries; (9) prepares immunization articles based on findings for
publication in international professional journals and for presentation
at international conferences; and (10) provides technical and
operational leadership for CDC's activities in support of the
initiatives.
Office of the Director (CWK1). (1) Provides leadership, management,
and oversight for all division activities including administrative,
budget, finance, research, workforce development, management and
operations; (2) assists leadership in the formulation and defense of
GID budget requests, and monitors and seeks strategies to mitigate
division risks; (3) provides coordination and oversight of the
division's personnel actions including liaison with CGH and CDC's human
resource office; (4) provides oversight for workforce planning,
recruitment, deployment, field staff support, professional development,
and monitoring and evaluation; (5) develops and promotes partnerships
with other organizations to support global immunization activities and
works closely with partners in academia; (6) liaises and coordinates
with other CDC offices engaged in global immunization activities; (7)
provides leadership and oversight for scientific and programmatic
activities related to the implementation of GID's objectives and
ensures that the research and economic portfolios are integrated across
the branches and with field activities; (8) identifies program policy
priorities through strategic planning and other processes as
appropriate; (9) clears all scientific publications from the division
working in close collaboration with management of GID; (10) provides
coordination of the division's communications activities including
liaison with other CDC communications offices and those of our partner
agencies; (11) represents CDC, CGH, and the division at global and
national meetings and other fora for global immunization activities;
(12) provides
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oversight for all Embassy/International Cooperative Administrative
Supportive Services costs for the division's field staff; and (13)
works in close collaboration and interfaces with CGH and other CIOs,
global immunization partners, and other collaborating partners in
matters relating to program development and research.
Polio Eradication Branch (CWKB). (1) Achieves global polio
eradication in partnership with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative
(GPEI) and optimize polio investments toward future health goals; (2)
acts as CDC's lead for polio eradication activities in countries within
Africa in partnership with GPEI; (3) works with polio free regions to
strengthen their efforts to remain polio-free, particularly in the
areas of surveillance, outbreak preparedness, containment and legacy
planning; (4) improves surveillance for polio by working with
individual countries, WHO regional offices, and groups within and
outside CDC to expand environmental surveillance; (5) is prepared to
respond quickly to outbreaks of wild poliovirus and circulating
vaccine-derived polioviruses; (6) leads work in countries at high risk
for polio; (7) leads activities to achieve poliovirus containment by
the required deadlines; (8) oversees technical aspects of specific
polio activities funded by CDC; (9) prepares countries for
certification; (10) leads or collaborates in research to support polio
eradication goals; (11) identifies opportunities to leverage polio
eradication assets to promote sustainable improvements in routine
immunization systems, in collaboration with the Immunization Systems
Branch; (12) defines and ensures a sustainability legacy for the polio
eradication program in addition to polio eradication itself and
identifies opportunities to implement strategies toward this goal; (13)
coordinates with key partners within and outside CDC; (14) promotes the
National Stop Transmission of Polio (NSTOP)program; (15) develops
priorities for CDC's involvement in polio eradication research and
innovation activities; (16) collects and analyzes data on wild polio
virus and vaccine perceived polio virus incidence, surveillance
performance and immunization status based on acute flaccid paralysis
surveillance and supplemental immunization activities implementation
quality; (17) provides support to regional and country teams in
assessing risk of outbreaks of wild poliovirus and circulating vaccine-
derived polioviruses; responding to outbreaks; planning and
implementing mitigating activities to prevent outbreaks; improving
surveillance; and assisting in development of documentation to support
certification and containment; and (18) supports the completion of
global polio eradication through strengthening surveillance, innovation
and research.
Accelerated Disease Control and Vaccine Preventable Diseases
Surveillance Branch (CWKC). (1) Achieves accelerated disease control
goals for vaccine preventable diseases (VPD), with a high focus on
eliminating measles and rubella in WHO regions in partnership with the
Measles and Rubella Initiative (MRI), and strengthening global
surveillance to prevent, detect and respond to VPDs; (2) leads global
and regional measles elimination goals; (3) provides expert technical
input toward development, evaluation, and improvement of program
activities and strategies to mitigate risk and achieve global and
regional measles elimination goals; (4) monitors measles incidence and
risk through development and analysis of high quality surveillance data
and risk estimates, estimating burden of disease/death and verifying
elimination; (5) develops and maintains outbreak preparedness and
respond rapidly to outbreaks; (6) oversees the technical aspects of
measles activities funded by CDC; (7) leads global and regional rubella
control and elimination goals; (8) provides expert technical input to
countries on the development and implementation of national plans of
action for rubella vaccine introduction and the control and elimination
of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome; (9) leads activities of the
MRI, including participation on working groups, as appropriate; (10)
strengthens labs and lab networks to ensure appropriate and timely
specimen collection, testing, and result dissemination; (11) develops
and maintains outbreak control strategies, including developing
mathematical models to estimate the target age range for achieving
program goals; (12) provides technical support to reach global or
regional goals for control of targeted VPDs; (13) provides expert
technical input towards development, evaluation, and improvement of
program activities and strategies to mitigate risk and achieve global
and regional VDP control goals; (14) monitors prevalence, incidence and
risk through development and analysis of high quality surveillance data
and risk estimates, estimating burden of disease/death and verifying
elimination; (15) conducts research and evaluation to maximize the
cost-effectiveness of elimination and outbreak control strategies; (16)
oversees the technical aspects of targeted VPD activities funded by
CDC; (17) provides ongoing support for development, implementation,
quality, and use of VPD surveillance; (18) evaluates VPD surveillance
systems and improves the quality, analysis, and use of surveillance
data for program action and decision-making; (19) provides technical
assistance in establishing and maintaining surveillance for diseases
prevented by new or underutilized vaccines; (20) conducts research and
evaluation to maximize surveillance performance and cost-effectiveness;
and (21) leads innovative research and development to strengthen
surveillance and improve laboratory diagnosis.
Immunization Systems Branch (CWKD). (1) Achieves global
immunization targets by supporting the strengthening of the
implementation of national immunization policies; identifies strategies
to increase vaccine demand; promotes the appropriate introduction and
use of quality vaccines; and strengthens routine immunization program
delivery and equitable access to vaccines, while promoting synergies
through the child health agenda; (2) leads development and
implementation of effective communication strategies that address
issues related to vaccine demand and uptake; (3) identifies caregiver,
provider, and community determinants that affect vaccine demand, in
order to develop evidence-based strategies to remove barriers and
increase demand for immunization; (4) evaluates vaccine policy
development, implementation, and impact, and advocates for policies
demonstrated to support acceptance of vaccine; (5) accelerates progress
toward achieving the millennium development goals of mortality
reduction and disease prevention by advocating and promoting the
appropriate and equitable introduction of new and underutilized
vaccines; (6) builds evidence and rationale for vaccine introduction;
(7) secures WHO-prequalification; (8) provides technical and
programmatic assistance to countries to introduce new and underutilized
vaccines into their national immunization programs; (9) evaluates
effectiveness of introduction of new and underutilized vaccines in
terms of uptake, impact on existing immunization program function, and
potential impact on disease burden; (10) works with VPD Surveillance
Team and CDC subject matter experts to build country capacity for
future introduction of new and underutilized vaccines; (11)
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leads inactive polio virus introduction to immunization systems in oral
polio virus using countries as mandated through the Immunization
Management Group of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative; improves
routine immunization systems globally (or improves access to and
utilization of vaccines globally through strengthening of routine
immunization systems); (12) develops, evaluates, and scales-up
evidence-based strategies to tackle inequities in access to and
delivery of vaccines; (13) develops evaluates, and scales-up
comprehensive and coordinated approaches to integrate immunization
services; (14) promotes innovation to improve routine immunization
program efficiencies and increase coverage and impact; (15) conducts
advocacy to national programs on the need to strengthen immunization
system abilities to monitor, assess and respond to issues related to
vaccine safety; and (16) conducts operational research to identify and
test interventions to improve the access and utilization of
immunization services and provide guidance on what areas are in need of
workforce capacity building activities.
Strategic Information and Workforce Development Branch (CWKE). (1)
Builds workforce, systems, and information capacity to effectively
deliver immunization services in selected countries; (2) provides
technical assistance and support, guidance, and advice on statistical
analysis and study design, data management, and data integrity to the
GID; (3) provides statistical expertise to support internal data
management needs of the division and field staff (standard setting for
record keeping, archiving, ensuring reproducibility of analyses); (4)
collaborates with branch and team level leadership and GID management
to ensure that statistical and methodological standards continue to
remain an integral part of planning, conduct, and review of science and
program within GID including with the context of the official clearance
process; (5) provides GID statistical representation on internal and
external committees and work groups and at relevant meetings,
workshops, and fora; (6) promotes capacity building for polio, other
VPDs and immunization functions in partnership with WHO and UNICEF
through recruiting, coordinating training of, and deploying STOP teams;
(7) promotes capacity building for polio, other VPDs and immunization
functions in partnership with WHO and UNICEF; (8) leads the development
of strong national immunization programs and systems through workforce
capacity development; (9) ensures recruitment for training and WHO
deployment for each STOP team; (10) creates and maintains strategic
partnerships and collaborations and provides technical assistance to
develop and evaluate sustainable programs aimed at increasing capacity
and effectiveness of workforce responsible for implementing
immunization programs; (11) conducts operational research to identify,
implement and evaluate interventions aimed at improving immunization
(or integrated public health) workforce effectiveness and contributes
to the scientific knowledge base regarding interventions aimed at
improving immunization workforce effectiveness; (12) leads
strengthening routine immunization systems as mandated through the
Immunization Management Group of the Global Polio Eradication
Initiative; and (13) leads the development of strong immunization
systems through improving quality, management, and use of immunization
data and providing specific technical skills for program evaluation to
include strategic information, informatics and information systems,
program evaluation, polio eradication and endgame strategy, and
operational research.
James D. Seligman,
Acting Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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