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Prevention
Announcement of Requirements and
Registration for the REACH Lark
Galloway-Gilliam Nomination for
Advancing Health Equity Challenge
(REACH Lark Award Challenge)
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), located
within the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS), announces the
2022 Racial and Ethnic Approaches to
Community Health (REACH) Lark
Galloway-Gilliam for Advancing Health
Equity Award Challenge (REACH Lark
Award Challenge). This biennial
challenge was established in 2019 to
recognize extraordinary individuals,
organizations, or community coalitions
associated with the REACH program
whose work has contributed to the
implementation of culturally tailored
interventions that advance health
equity, reduce health disparities, and
increase community engagement to
address preventable risk factors (e.g.,
tobacco use, poor nutrition, physical
inactivity, and inadequate access to
clinical services).
DATES: The Challenge will accept
applications from February 7, 2022
through March 18, 2022.
Award Approving Official: Rochelle P.
Walensky, MD, MPH, Director, Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, and
Administrator, Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kristy Mugavero, National Center for
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy. NE,
Mailstop S107–5, Atlanta, GA 30341,
Telephone: 770–488–2047, Email:
dnpaopolicy@cdc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Racial and
ethnic disparities in health remain
pervasive across the United States. CDC
administers REACH, a national program
that provides funding to state and local
health departments, tribes, universities,
and community-based organizations.
Since REACH was established in 1999,
the program has demonstrated success
in addressing these disparities and
promoting health equity by engaging
with diverse communities and
implementing culturally tailored
interventions. For more information
about the REACH program, visit https://
www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/statelocal-programs/reach/index.htm.
The intent of this challenge is to
recognize individuals and organizations
or community coalitions associated with
the REACH program that meaningfully
assisted with and carried out culturally
tailored interventions that advance
health equity, reduce health disparities,
and increase community engagement to
address preventable risk factors (e.g.,
tobacco use, poor nutrition, physical
inactivity, and inadequate access to
clinical services) in populations or
groups disproportionately affected by
chronic disease; specifically, African
American/Black, American Indian or
Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic or
Latino, and Native Hawaiian or other
Pacific Islander persons. To support the
science and practice of improving
health equity, this challenge can help
further the goals of the REACH program
by documenting and further
disseminating the innovative or unique
interventions employed by individuals,
organizations or community coalitions
applying or nominated for this award.
Subject of Challenge Competition:
The challenge is authorized by Public
Law 111–358, the America Creating
Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote
Excellence in Technology, Education
and Science Reauthorization Act of
2010 (COMPETES Act).
The ‘‘applicant’’ refers to each
individual, organization, or community
coalition who submits an application or
nomination. The ‘‘nominee’’ refers to
each individual or organization/
community coalition who is nominated,
whether self-nominated or nominated
by a separate applicant.
Applicants will be asked to respond
to a series of questions related to how
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the nominee assisted with and carried
out culturally tailored interventions to
advance health equity, reduce health
disparities, and increase community
engagement to address preventable risk
factors (e.g., tobacco use, poor nutrition,
physical inactivity, and inadequate
access to clinical services) in
populations or groups
disproportionately affected by chronic
disease; specifically African American/
Black, American Indian or Alaska
Native, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, and
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific
Islander persons.
Eligibility Rules for Participating in the
Challenge
The REACH Lark Award Challenge is
open to the public. To be eligible for
this award, nominees must meet the
following eligibility requirements:
(1) Shall have completed the
application (for self-nominees) or have
had an application submitted on their
behalf (for those nominate by others) for
the competition under the rules
promulgated by HHS/CDC;
(2) Shall have complied with all the
requirements under this section and
satisfy one of the following
requirements:
a. Be a currently or previously funded
CDC REACH recipient that has not
previously received the REACH Lark
Award in any year; or
b. Be a technical assistance provider
to a former or current REACH recipient
(current and past REACH recipients can
be found at: https://www.cdc.gov/
nccdphp/dnpao/state-local-programs/
reach/index.htm); or
c. Be a partner organization, part of a
partner network, or coalition members
that collaborated on REACH-related
work with a current or previously
funded REACH recipient;
(3) Shall not have been a REACH Lark
Award Challenge recipient in any
previous year;
(4) Shall be either:
a. A U.S. citizen or legal permanent
resident, eighteen years of age or older,
if the nominee is an individual or group
of individuals; or
b. Incorporated in and maintain a
primary place of business in the United
States, if the nominee is an entity;
where the United States means a state,
the District of Columbia, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any
other territory or possession of the
United States;
(5) Shall not be a federal entity or
federal employee acting within the
scope of their employment;
(6) Shall not be an employee of or
contractor of CDC;
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(7) Shall not use federal funds to
develop COMPETES Act challenge
applications for this challenge, if the
applicant is a federal grantee;
(8) Shall not use federal funds from a
contract to develop COMPETES Act
challenge applications or to fund efforts
in support of a COMPETES Act
challenge submission, if the applicant is
a federal contractor;
(9) Shall not be deemed ineligible
because an individual or team applicant
or nominee used federal facilities or
consulted with federal employees
during a competition if the facilities and
employees are made available to all
individuals and entities participating in
the competition on an equitable basis.
(10) By participating, the applicant
represents, warrants, and agrees that the
entry contains accurate information. If
an applicant is nominating another
individual, organization, community
coalition (e.g., not self-nominating), the
applicant must provide
acknowledgement in writing that the
nominee consents to being nominated.
(11) Applicants and nominees must
agree to be recognized if selected as a
winner and agree to participate in an
interview with CDC staff to provide
information that may be used by CDC
staff to write a success story that
describes the intervention(s) that
promoted health equity. Winners and
their intervention(s) may be recognized
and the success story may be made
public, including but not limited to,
posted on the CDC’s Division of
Nutrition, Physical Activity, and
Obesity website, the CDC website, social
media, or other communication
platforms, some combination of these
communication channels, or all of these
channels.
(12) By participating in this challenge,
applicants agree to assume any and all
risks related to participating in the
challenge. Applicants also agree to
waive claims against the federal
government and its related entities,
except in the case of willful misconduct,
when participating in the challenge,
including claims for injury; death;
damage; or loss of property, money, or
profits; and including those risks caused
by negligence or other causes.
Registration Process for Participants
To participate and submit an
application, interested parties should go
to https://www.challenge.gov. The
application requires responses to six
questions; the answer to each question
should be no longer than 300 words.
Generally, the questions ask the
applicant to describe how the nominee
assisted with and carried out culturally
tailored interventions that achieve
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health equity, reduce health disparities,
and increase community engagement to
address preventable risk factors (e.g.,
tobacco use, poor nutrition, physical
inactivity, and inadequate access to
clinical services) in populations or
groups disproportionately affected by
chronic disease.
Applicants can also submit evidence
that demonstrates that the criteria were
met through publications, links to
online content, and other forms of
written material.
Amount of the Prize
No cash prize will be awarded. A
maximum of two nominees (one
individual and one organization or
community coalition) will receive a
plaque (‘‘Winner’’). While the winners
may be invited to meetings by CDC,
attendance at such events is not
required as a condition of accepting the
award.
Basis Upon Which Winners Will Be
Selected
CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical
Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO) Policy
Office will convene a panel of three to
five internal and external experts (panel
members may recuse themselves in the
event of a conflict of interest related to
the nominee) to review the applications
and select up to two award recipients
(one individual and one organization or
community coalition) from all eligible
entries based on:
• The extent to which the problem or
challenge is clearly identified and the
strategies that the nominee used to
address the challenges are described.
• The extent to which nominee’s
work addresses one or more of the
following preventable risk factors:
Tobacco use, poor nutrition, physical
inactivity, and inadequate access to
clinical services that are related to
chronic diseases such as hypertension,
heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and
obesity.
• The extent to which the nominee’s
work aligns with the National Center for
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion’s goals of achieving health
equity by addressing social
determinants of health. Examples of
social determinants health include, but
are not limited to the built environment,
community-clinical linkages, food and
nutrition security, social connectedness,
and tobacco-free policies.
• The extent to which the solutions
are culturally tailored, evidence or
practice-based, and designed
specifically to reduce health inequities
for populations or groups
disproportionately affected by chronic
disease or related risk factors.
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• The extent to which the nominee
has actively and effectively engaged
community members and partners
across different sectors such as, but not
limited to, transportation, healthcare,
agriculture, emergency food systems,
and faith-based organizations.
• The impact of the nominee’s work
in addressing preventable risk factors in
populations or groups
disproportionately affected by chronic
disease.
Panel members will score
applications on a 100-point scale to
select the winners.
Additional Information
Information about the winners, such
as the name and location of the
individual, organization, or community
coalition, priority population served,
and health outcomes addressed, may be
shared through press releases, the
challenge website, and Division of
Nutrition, Physical Activity, and
Obesity and CDC Resources, and other
publicly available platforms (e.g., social
media, CDC website, etc.). Details
regarding the winners and their
applications may be shared with the
public as part of recognition efforts.
Applicants and nominees who are not
selected for the award may be asked for
permission for CDC to share information
about successful interventions that
promoted health equity on CDC’s
Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity,
and Obesity website, the CDC website,
social media, or other platform generally
with appropriate attribution to the
applicant or nominee.
The award is named in honor of Lark
Galloway-Gilliam, the founding
Executive Director of Community
Health Councils, Inc. (CHC). CHC began
in 1992 to support planning, resource
development, and policy education in
response to the growing health crisis in
the South Los Angeles area and other
under-resourced and marginalized
communities throughout Los Angeles
County. Lark led the CHC team to
engage communities and strengthen the
connections among organizations in
order to improve health, eliminate
disparities, and achieve health equity.
Under Lark’s leadership, CHC became
an expert in health equity in Los
Angeles, across California, and the
country. Lark also served in several
leadership roles, including the first
president of the National REACH
Coalition, the MLK Medical center
Advisory Board, and the IP3 Board of
Directors for Community Commons.
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Compliance With Rules and Contacting
Challenge Winners
Applicants, nominees, and the
REACH Lark Award Challenge winners
must comply with all terms and
conditions of these Official Rules and
winning is contingent upon fulfilling all
requirements herein. The winners will
be notified by email, telephone, or mail
after the date of the judging.
Privacy
If applicants choose to provide HHS/
CDC with personal information by
registering or filling out the application
form through the Challenge.gov website,
that information will only be used to
respond to contestants in matters
regarding their submission,
announcements of entrants, finalists,
and winners of the contest. Information
is not collected for commercial
marketing. Winners are permitted to cite
that they won this contest.
General Conditions
CDC reserves the right to cancel,
suspend, and/or modify the Challenge,
or any part of it, for any reason, at CDC’s
sole discretion.
Participation in this Challenge
constitutes an applicants’ full and
unconditional agreement to abide by the
Challenge’s Official Rules found at
https://www.Challenge.gov.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719.
Dated: February 1, 2022.
Angela K. Oliver,
Executive Secretary, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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Medicaid Services, Health and Human
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comment on CMS’ intention to collect
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regarding the burden estimate or any
other aspect of this collection of
information, including the necessity and
utility of the proposed information
collection for the proper performance of
the agency’s functions, the accuracy of
the estimated burden, ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected, and the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology to
minimize the information collection
burden.
Comments on the collection(s) of
information must be received by the
OMB desk officer by March 7, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
To obtain copies of a supporting
statement and any related forms for the
proposed collection(s) summarized in
this notice, you may make your request
using one of following:
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website address at: https://
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ReductionActof1995/PRA-Listing.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
William Parham at (410) 786–4669.
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Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), federal agencies
must obtain approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for each
collection of information they conduct
or sponsor. The term ‘‘collection of
information’’ is defined in 44 U.S.C.
3502(3) and 5 CFR 1320.3(c) and
includes agency requests or
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collect and report information on the
quality of health care services and
prescription drug coverage available to
persons enrolled in a Medicare health or
prescription drug plan under provisions
in the Medicare Prescription Drug,
Improvement, and Modernization Act of
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and report this information to Medicare
beneficiaries prior to the Medicare
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collecting and publicly reporting
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of testing the effects of new survey
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5,000; Total Annual Responses: 5,000;
Total Annual Hours: 1,290. (For policy
questions regarding this collection
contact Lauren K. Fuentes at 410–786–
2290.)
Dated: January 31, 2022.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Announcement of Requirements and Registration for the REACH Lark
Galloway-Gilliam Nomination for Advancing Health Equity Challenge
(REACH Lark Award Challenge)
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), located
within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announces the
2022 Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) Lark
Galloway-Gilliam for Advancing Health Equity Award Challenge (REACH
Lark Award Challenge). This biennial challenge was established in 2019
to recognize extraordinary individuals, organizations, or community
coalitions associated with the REACH program whose work has contributed
to the implementation of culturally tailored interventions that advance
health equity, reduce health disparities, and increase community
engagement to address preventable risk factors (e.g., tobacco use, poor
nutrition, physical inactivity, and inadequate access to clinical
services).
DATES: The Challenge will accept applications from February 7, 2022
through March 18, 2022.
Award Approving Official: Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, Director,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Administrator, Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kristy Mugavero, National Center for
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy. NE, Mailstop S107-5, Atlanta,
GA 30341, Telephone: 770-488-2047, Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Racial and ethnic disparities in health
remain pervasive across the United States. CDC administers REACH, a
national program that provides funding to state and local health
departments, tribes, universities, and community-based organizations.
Since REACH was established in 1999, the program has demonstrated
success in addressing these disparities and promoting health equity by
engaging with diverse communities and implementing culturally tailored
interventions. For more information about the REACH program, visit
https://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/state-local-programs/reach/index.htm.
The intent of this challenge is to recognize individuals and
organizations or community coalitions associated with the REACH program
that meaningfully assisted with and carried out culturally tailored
interventions that advance health equity, reduce health disparities,
and increase community engagement to address preventable risk factors
(e.g., tobacco use, poor nutrition, physical inactivity, and inadequate
access to clinical services) in populations or groups
disproportionately affected by chronic disease; specifically, African
American/Black, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic or
Latino, and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander persons. To
support the science and practice of improving health equity, this
challenge can help further the goals of the REACH program by
documenting and further disseminating the innovative or unique
interventions employed by individuals, organizations or community
coalitions applying or nominated for this award.
Subject of Challenge Competition: The challenge is authorized by
Public Law 111-358, the America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully
Promote Excellence in Technology, Education and Science Reauthorization
Act of 2010 (COMPETES Act).
The ``applicant'' refers to each individual, organization, or
community coalition who submits an application or nomination. The
``nominee'' refers to each individual or organization/community
coalition who is nominated, whether self-nominated or nominated by a
separate applicant.
Applicants will be asked to respond to a series of questions
related to how the nominee assisted with and carried out culturally
tailored interventions to advance health equity, reduce health
disparities, and increase community engagement to address preventable
risk factors (e.g., tobacco use, poor nutrition, physical inactivity,
and inadequate access to clinical services) in populations or groups
disproportionately affected by chronic disease; specifically African
American/Black, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Hispanic or
Latino, and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander persons.
Eligibility Rules for Participating in the Challenge
The REACH Lark Award Challenge is open to the public. To be
eligible for this award, nominees must meet the following eligibility
requirements:
(1) Shall have completed the application (for self-nominees) or
have had an application submitted on their behalf (for those nominate
by others) for the competition under the rules promulgated by HHS/CDC;
(2) Shall have complied with all the requirements under this
section and satisfy one of the following requirements:
a. Be a currently or previously funded CDC REACH recipient that has
not previously received the REACH Lark Award in any year; or
b. Be a technical assistance provider to a former or current REACH
recipient (current and past REACH recipients can be found at: https://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/state-local-programs/reach/index.htm); or
c. Be a partner organization, part of a partner network, or
coalition members that collaborated on REACH-related work with a
current or previously funded REACH recipient;
(3) Shall not have been a REACH Lark Award Challenge recipient in
any previous year;
(4) Shall be either:
a. A U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident, eighteen years of
age or older, if the nominee is an individual or group of individuals;
or
b. Incorporated in and maintain a primary place of business in the
United States, if the nominee is an entity; where the United States
means a state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto
Rico, and any other territory or possession of the United States;
(5) Shall not be a federal entity or federal employee acting within
the scope of their employment;
(6) Shall not be an employee of or contractor of CDC;
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(7) Shall not use federal funds to develop COMPETES Act challenge
applications for this challenge, if the applicant is a federal grantee;
(8) Shall not use federal funds from a contract to develop COMPETES
Act challenge applications or to fund efforts in support of a COMPETES
Act challenge submission, if the applicant is a federal contractor;
(9) Shall not be deemed ineligible because an individual or team
applicant or nominee used federal facilities or consulted with federal
employees during a competition if the facilities and employees are made
available to all individuals and entities participating in the
competition on an equitable basis.
(10) By participating, the applicant represents, warrants, and
agrees that the entry contains accurate information. If an applicant is
nominating another individual, organization, community coalition (e.g.,
not self-nominating), the applicant must provide acknowledgement in
writing that the nominee consents to being nominated.
(11) Applicants and nominees must agree to be recognized if
selected as a winner and agree to participate in an interview with CDC
staff to provide information that may be used by CDC staff to write a
success story that describes the intervention(s) that promoted health
equity. Winners and their intervention(s) may be recognized and the
success story may be made public, including but not limited to, posted
on the CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity
website, the CDC website, social media, or other communication
platforms, some combination of these communication channels, or all of
these channels.
(12) By participating in this challenge, applicants agree to assume
any and all risks related to participating in the challenge. Applicants
also agree to waive claims against the federal government and its
related entities, except in the case of willful misconduct, when
participating in the challenge, including claims for injury; death;
damage; or loss of property, money, or profits; and including those
risks caused by negligence or other causes.
Registration Process for Participants
To participate and submit an application, interested parties should
go to https://www.challenge.gov. The application requires responses to
six questions; the answer to each question should be no longer than 300
words. Generally, the questions ask the applicant to describe how the
nominee assisted with and carried out culturally tailored interventions
that achieve health equity, reduce health disparities, and increase
community engagement to address preventable risk factors (e.g., tobacco
use, poor nutrition, physical inactivity, and inadequate access to
clinical services) in populations or groups disproportionately affected
by chronic disease.
Applicants can also submit evidence that demonstrates that the
criteria were met through publications, links to online content, and
other forms of written material.
Amount of the Prize
No cash prize will be awarded. A maximum of two nominees (one
individual and one organization or community coalition) will receive a
plaque (``Winner''). While the winners may be invited to meetings by
CDC, attendance at such events is not required as a condition of
accepting the award.
Basis Upon Which Winners Will Be Selected
CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO)
Policy Office will convene a panel of three to five internal and
external experts (panel members may recuse themselves in the event of a
conflict of interest related to the nominee) to review the applications
and select up to two award recipients (one individual and one
organization or community coalition) from all eligible entries based
on:
The extent to which the problem or challenge is clearly
identified and the strategies that the nominee used to address the
challenges are described.
The extent to which nominee's work addresses one or more
of the following preventable risk factors: Tobacco use, poor nutrition,
physical inactivity, and inadequate access to clinical services that
are related to chronic diseases such as hypertension, heart disease,
type 2 diabetes, and obesity.
The extent to which the nominee's work aligns with the
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion's
goals of achieving health equity by addressing social determinants of
health. Examples of social determinants health include, but are not
limited to the built environment, community-clinical linkages, food and
nutrition security, social connectedness, and tobacco-free policies.
The extent to which the solutions are culturally tailored,
evidence or practice-based, and designed specifically to reduce health
inequities for populations or groups disproportionately affected by
chronic disease or related risk factors.
The extent to which the nominee has actively and
effectively engaged community members and partners across different
sectors such as, but not limited to, transportation, healthcare,
agriculture, emergency food systems, and faith-based organizations.
The impact of the nominee's work in addressing preventable
risk factors in populations or groups disproportionately affected by
chronic disease.
Panel members will score applications on a 100-point scale to
select the winners.
Additional Information
Information about the winners, such as the name and location of the
individual, organization, or community coalition, priority population
served, and health outcomes addressed, may be shared through press
releases, the challenge website, and Division of Nutrition, Physical
Activity, and Obesity and CDC Resources, and other publicly available
platforms (e.g., social media, CDC website, etc.). Details regarding
the winners and their applications may be shared with the public as
part of recognition efforts.
Applicants and nominees who are not selected for the award may be
asked for permission for CDC to share information about successful
interventions that promoted health equity on CDC's Division of
Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity website, the CDC website,
social media, or other platform generally with appropriate attribution
to the applicant or nominee.
The award is named in honor of Lark Galloway-Gilliam, the founding
Executive Director of Community Health Councils, Inc. (CHC). CHC began
in 1992 to support planning, resource development, and policy education
in response to the growing health crisis in the South Los Angeles area
and other under-resourced and marginalized communities throughout Los
Angeles County. Lark led the CHC team to engage communities and
strengthen the connections among organizations in order to improve
health, eliminate disparities, and achieve health equity. Under Lark's
leadership, CHC became an expert in health equity in Los Angeles,
across California, and the country. Lark also served in several
leadership roles, including the first president of the National REACH
Coalition, the MLK Medical center Advisory Board, and the IP3 Board of
Directors for Community Commons.
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Compliance With Rules and Contacting Challenge Winners
Applicants, nominees, and the REACH Lark Award Challenge winners
must comply with all terms and conditions of these Official Rules and
winning is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements herein. The
winners will be notified by email, telephone, or mail after the date of
the judging.
Privacy
If applicants choose to provide HHS/CDC with personal information
by registering or filling out the application form through the
Challenge.gov website, that information will only be used to respond to
contestants in matters regarding their submission, announcements of
entrants, finalists, and winners of the contest. Information is not
collected for commercial marketing. Winners are permitted to cite that
they won this contest.
General Conditions
CDC reserves the right to cancel, suspend, and/or modify the
Challenge, or any part of it, for any reason, at CDC's sole discretion.
Participation in this Challenge constitutes an applicants' full and
unconditional agreement to abide by the Challenge's Official Rules
found at https://www.Challenge.gov.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719.
Dated: February 1, 2022.
Angela K. Oliver,
Executive Secretary, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2022-02409 Filed 2-3-22; 8:45 am]
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