Notice2023-14702
Reorganization of the Office of Readiness and Response
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July 12, 2023
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Health and Human Services DepartmentCenters for Disease Control and Prevention
Abstract
CDC has modified its structure. This notice announces the reorganization of the Office of Readiness and Response (ORR). ORR reorganized to improve rapid response to disease outbreaks and public health emergencies within the United States and around the world. It is critical for CDC's internal emergency response structure and readiness capabilities align with the changing public health landscape in order to best protect populations that are at increased risk of death, disability, and disease before, during, and after responses.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 132 (Wednesday, July 12, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44344-44350]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-14702]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Reorganization of the Office of Readiness and Response
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: CDC has modified its structure. This notice announces the
reorganization of the Office of Readiness and Response (ORR). ORR
reorganized to improve rapid response to disease outbreaks and public
health emergencies within the United States and around the world. It is
critical for CDC's internal emergency response structure and readiness
capabilities align with the changing public health landscape in order
to best protect populations that are at increased risk of death,
disability, and disease before, during, and after responses.
DATES: This reorganization was approved by the Director of CDC on June
28, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kimberly Thurmond, Office of the Chief
Operating Officer, Office of the Director, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS TW-2, Atlanta, GA 30329.
Telephone 770-488-4401; Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2557404a574256654641460b424a53"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0371666c716470436067602d646c75">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 88 FR 9290-9291, dated
February 13, 2023) is amended to reflect the reorganization of the
Office of Readiness and Response, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Specifically, the changes are as follows:
I. Under Part C, Section C-B, Organization and Functions, insert
the following:
Office of Readiness and Response (CAD)
Office of the Director (CAD1)
Information Resources Office (CAD12)
Office of Policy, Planning, and Communications (CAD13)
Office of Science and Laboratory Readiness (CAD14)
Management Resources Office (CAD15)
Division of State and Local Readiness (CADB)
Office of the Director (CADB1)
Field Assignments Branch (CADBB)
Grants Management and Fiscal Strategy Branch (CADBC)
Jurisdictional Readiness and Response Support Branch (CADBD)
Capacity Building and Technical Assistance Development Branch (CADBE)
Division of Regulatory Science and Compliance (CADC)
Office of the Director (CADC1)
Federal Select Agent Program Operations Branch (CADCB)
Import Permit Program Operations Branch (CADCC)
Innovation and Information Technology Branch (CADCD)
Biosafety, Science, Training and Expertise Branch (CADCE)
Division of Emergency Operations (CADD)
Office of the Director (CADD1)
Resource Support Branch (CADDB)
Operations Branch (CADDC)
Plans, Exercise, and Evaluation Branch (CADDD)
Emergency Management Training and Capacity Development Branch (CADDE)
Division of Readiness and Response Science (CADE)
Office of the Director (CADE1)
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Community-Based Solutions and Health Equity Branch (CADEB)
Response Analytics, Decision Support, and Surveillance Branch (CADEC)
Public Health Readiness and Response Evaluation Branch (CADED)
Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CADL)
Office of the Director (CADL1)
Office of Policy and Communications (CADL12)
Office of Management Services (CADL13)
Inform Division (CADLB)
Office of the Director (CADLB1)
Predict Division (CADLC)
Office of the Director (CADLC1)
Real Time Monitoring Branch (CADLCB)
Analytics Response Branch (CADLCC)
Technology and Innovation Division (CADLD)
Office of the Director (CADLD1)
Technology Branch (CADLDB)
Innovate Branch (CADLDC)
II. Under Part C, Section C-B, Organization and Functions, retitle
the following organizational units:
Office of Science and Public Health Practice (CAD14) to Office of
Science and Laboratory Readiness (CAD14)
Division of Select Agents and Toxins (CADC) to Division of Regulatory
Science and Compliance (CADC)
Field Select Agent Branch (CADCB) to the Federal Select Agent Program
Operations Branch (CADCB)
III. Under Part C, Section C-B, Organization and Functions, delete
the mission or functional statements for and replace with the
following:
Office of Readiness and Response (CAD). The mission of the Office
of Readiness and Response (ORR) is to lead, promote, and integrate
programs, science, data, communications, and policies that enable CDC
to respond to public health threats at home and abroad. The ORR
Director is accountable and vested with authority for positioning CDC
to successfully respond to all public health threats, including through
preparedness activities that maintain a constant readiness to respond.
ORR supports the following functions: (1) serves as the principal
source of advice and expertise for the CDC Director on issues related
to emergency readiness and response domestically and globally; (2)
assists the CDC Director in formulating and communicating readiness and
response strategic initiatives and policies; (3) informs and represents
the CDC Director on key emergency readiness and response issues; (4)
develops overall strategic direction, provides leadership, and supports
implementation of emergency readiness and response priorities across
the agency's workforce, data and laboratory systems, science, policies,
and programs; (5) leverages cross-agency expertise to inform U.S.
Government readiness and response plans and aligns agency emergency
readiness and response strategies to these plans; (6) advises CDC
senior leadership on resource allocation decisions that have readiness
and response implications; (7) identifies emergency readiness and
response issues of public health importance and facilitates and
promotes cross-agency, cross-United States Government interagency
collaboration, innovation, and initiatives to address them, including
developing shared goals and monitoring progress and accomplishments;
(8) enhances robust connections, cooperation, and collaboration through
partnerships across multiple emergency readiness and response sectors
(e.g., government, professional organizations, industry, academia),
domestically and globally; (9) upholds integrity, transparency, and
excellence in public health science and practice related to emergency
readiness and response; (10) continually evaluates agency-wide
emergency readiness and response effectiveness and efficiency, and
recommends and implements adjustments based on findings; (11) promotes
an environment that increases synergies and efficiencies and reduces
duplication within CDC's emergency readiness and response programs;
(12) provides overall strategic direction and leadership for emergency
operations, forecasting, and outbreak analytics (e.g., surveillance,
modeling, analytics); (13) coordinates strategic direction and
leadership for partner funding and technical assistance for readiness
and response; (14) leads cross-agency readiness and medical
countermeasure (MCM) efforts, in coordination with other HHS operating
and staff divisions and their constituent agencies; (15) maintains an
Office of the Director (OD) to provide oversight and support for
crosscutting functions, including but not limited to management and
operations, policy, communication, health equity, and science, (16)
guides and supports public health emergency readiness and response
activities both within the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and, as
appropriate, CDC Centers, Institute, and Offices (CIOs); and (17)
provides staff and scientific expertise, including through the EOC, for
public health emergency responses and exercises.
Office of the Director (CAD1). (1) provides overall leadership,
oversight, and guidance for all ORR programs; (2) oversees the
development of ORR policy, communication, long-range plans, and
programs, (3) leads the implementation and enforcement of overarching
statutory and regulatory compliance responsibilities, policies and
guidelines developed by Federal agencies, HHS, and CDC Staff Offices,
as they relate to public health; emergency preparedness, readiness, and
response; select agents and toxins; and poliovirus (PV) containment;
(4) manages ORR preparedness, readiness, and response activities; (5)
coordinates program activities with other CDC components, other
Federal, state, and local government agencies, and private sector
groups; (6) provides leadership for the coordination of technical
assistance to other countries and international organizations in
establishing and implementing preparedness, readiness, and response
programs; (7) provides leadership, direction, coordination and
evaluation of science and health-related activities for priority
programs and preparedness, readiness, and emergency response agenda(s);
(8) provides executive coordination for ORR research programs and
science policies; (9) leads cross-agency readiness and MCM efforts and
coordination; (10) maintains liaisons with other Federal, state, and
local agencies, institutions, and organizations; (11) coordinates ORR
public health science efforts to protect the public's health; (12)
develops capacity within the states to integrate new and existing
emergency preparedness, readiness, and response principles into their
operational and programmatic activities; (13) utilizes best practices
to collect, analyze, and interpret data and disseminate scientific
information to enable internal and external partners to make actionable
decisions; (14) integrates science, data analytics, and visualization
into science products; (15) coordinates ORR involvement in CDC public
health ethics activities; (16) represents ORR on various CDC scientific
committees, work groups, and taskforces; (17) provides leadership and
guidance in the development and implementation of goals, objectives,
priorities, policies, program planning, management and operations of
all general activities within ORR; (18) oversees, manages, directs,
coordinates, and evaluates all ORR management and operations activities
including human resources, intramural and extramural funding, space,
budgeting and other related activities; (19) coordinates with all ORR
offices and divisions in determining and interpreting operating policy
and in
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ensuring their respective management input is included in specific
program activity plans (20) provides overall issues management, health
policy and partnership development direction to the ORR offices and
divisions; (21) provides and directs overall internal and external
communication strategies for the ORR; (22) directs and coordinates ORR
activities in support of the Department's Equal Employment Opportunity
program, diversity enhancement and employee professional development
opportunities; and (23) reviews the effectiveness and efficiency of all
administration and operations of ORR programs.
Information Resources Office (CAD12). (1) provides expert
consultation in application development, information science, and
technology to efficiently use resources; (2) provides information
technology (IT) application development for ORR OD, center, and
divisions; (3) reports all IT project costs, schedules, performances,
and risks; (4) performs technical evaluation and integrated baseline
reviews of all information systems' products and services prior to
procurement to ensure software purchases align with ORR strategy; (5)
coordinates all enterprise-wide IT security policies and procedures
with the Office of the Chief Information Officer; (6) ensures
operations are in accordance with CDC Capital Planning and Investment
Control guidelines; (7) ensures adherence to CDC enterprise
architecture policies, guidelines, and standards; (8) ensures
coordination of data harmonization and systems interoperability within
ORR and facilitates linkage to related CDC-wide strategies; (9)
coordinates with ORR offices, center, and divisions to determine IT
needs and to develop strategic and action plans; and (10) provides
leadership in ORR's Information Resource Governance Committee and
coordination with CDC's IT and Data Governance.
Office of Policy, Planning, and Communications (CAD13). (1) serves
as liaison with CDC/Immediate Office of the Director (IOD) Offices and
other CIO policy offices, other government agencies, and external
partners on policy, program, communications, legislative, and budgetary
issues related to ORR offices, center, and divisions; (2) provides
consultation, support and service to ORR's offices, center, and
divisions for policy, planning, evaluation, and communications; (3)
leads annual ORR budget formulation and development of appropriations
materials; (4) provides expertise, guidance, coordination, and guidance
for strategic planning, performance measurement and communications,
including health literacy, communications clearance, plain language
implementation, 508 compliance, and social marketing programs, in
collaboration with CDC/IOD and ORR OD, center, and division staff; (5)
oversees and coordinates ORR accountability activities, including
Government Accountability Office and Office of the Inspector General
engagements and Freedom of Information Act audits and reviews; (6)
develops and manages policy, program, and communication materials for
stakeholders and partnership activities, including with governmental,
non-governmental and private sector organizations; (7) serves as ORR
communications clearance office for health communication campaigns and
products; (8) maintains liaison with CDC/Washington and the Office of
Appropriations concerning congressional matters including
appropriations, legislative bill tracking, legislative requests for
technical assistance, testimony for hearings, congressional inquiries,
etc.; (9) oversees the preparation and routing of controlled
correspondence, reviews clearance processes, and other issues
management related materials; (10) assists divisions in the development
and clearance of Federal Register Notices, rulemaking, and other
documents for public comment; (11) develops and implements all
proactive media outreach and reactive media responses for ORR; (12)
serves as liaison to key offices for obtaining CDC and HHS traditional
and social media clearance on products/activities; (13) coordinates CDC
and ORR brand management, policy guidance, and governance of ORR
content on digital channels and websites per HHS and CDC policy for the
use of communication platforms; (14) leads, coordinates and provides
strategic oversight of ORR's health communication and marketing
practice, research, evaluation, and science; and (15) collects/
analyzes/evaluates user data/metrics from communication channels and
technologies to assess system performance, usability, accessibility,
usefulness and impact of key messages.
Office of Science and Laboratory Readiness (CAD14). (1) engages and
collaborates with ORR office, center, and division Associate Directors
for Science and staff and other CDC CIOs to develop and maintain cross-
cutting scientific partnerships that advance science, ensure mutual
awareness of activities, and promote scientific capability, capacity
and quality within ORR; (2) fosters opportunities to support CDC's
mission in science and laboratory readiness through partnerships across
government, non-profit organizations, and businesses; (3) fosters
innovation and strategic foresight in science and laboratory readiness
to mitigate risks, address current and future gaps, and inform
partnerships and investments; (4) collaborates on and supports the
creation of knowledge to advance public health emergency preparedness,
readiness, and response, and recovery policy and practice; (5) provides
technical assistance and scientific clearance for products submitted to
ORR; (6) provides oversight and direction for the Board of Scientific
Counselors by ensuring Federal Advisory Committee Act compliance and
assuring the Board provides advice and guidance on preparedness,
readiness, and response activities conducted by CDC and ORR; (7)
monitors and maintains ORR compliance with the statutes, regulations,
and policies governing the conduct of science by the Federal
Government, including but not limited to, protecting the rights and
welfare of humans in research, ensuring compliance with Paperwork
Reduction Act, and providing guidance to protect individuals' privacy
and confidentiality; and (8) develops and maintains the ORR clearance
policy and performs scientific review and clearance of ORR products to
ensure the quality of publications.
Management Resources Office (CAD15). (1) provides leadership and
guidance for ORR's management of business operations; (2) oversees,
manages, directs, coordinates, and evaluates all ORR management and
operations activities; (3) coordinates and provides oversight to ORR's
overall extramural strategy for contracts, grants, cooperative
agreements, and reimbursable agreements; (4) develops and implements
all ORR-wide administrative policies, procedures, and operations; (5)
conducts management and organizational analyses to review the
effectiveness and efficiency of all management and administrative
operations of ORR programs and translates these into quality controls
for improvement; (6) provides leadership for and assessment of all
administrative management activities to assure coordination for all
management and program matters, such as coordinating risk management
and continuity of operations activities (COOP); (7) provides overall
programmatic direction for planning and management oversight of
allocated resources, human resource
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management and general administrative support; (8) provides and
coordinates ORR-wide administrative, management, and support services
in the areas of fiscal management, personnel, travel, procurement,
facility management, and other administrative services; (9) develops
and directs employee engagement programs; (10) analyzes workforce,
succession, strategic planning systems, and resources on an ongoing
basis; and (11) directs and coordinates activities in support of the
diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility integration into ORR
activities and employee training and professional development
opportunities.
Division of State and Local Readiness (CADB). (1) provides program
support, funding, technical assistance, guidance, technical
integration, and capacity building of preparedness planning across
public health, healthcare, and emergency management sectors; (2)
provides fiscal oversight to state, tribal, local, and territorial
(STLT) public health department Cooperative Agreement recipients for
the development, monitoring, and evaluation of public health
capabilities, plans, infrastructure, and systems to prepare for and
respond to terrorism, outbreaks of disease, natural disasters, and
other public health emergencies; and (3) provides staff and scientific
expertise, including through the EOC, for public health emergency
responses and exercises.
Office of the Director (CADB1). (1) provides national leadership,
strategic direction, and guidance that supports and advances the work
of STLT public health emergency preparedness and response programs; (2)
coordinates the development of guidelines and standards for
programmatic materials within the division to provide technical
assistance and program planning at the STLT level; (3) represents and
communicates the interests and needs of the STLT jurisdictions on state
and local preparedness and response issues; (4) develops and ensures
effective partnerships with national stakeholders and preparedness and
response partners; (5) provides oversight and management of division
budgets, including contracts and awards; (6) manages the IT strategy
and infrastructure to support division and recipient programmatic,
evaluation, and fiscal activities; (7) addresses key internal and
external policy and communications issues related to STLT public health
preparedness and response; and (8) supports and advances the science
and data analysis work of the division.
Field Assignments Branch (CADBB). (1) advances nationwide
preparedness efforts through strategic placement of CDC field staff to
support STLT public health agencies; (2) provides input to the
development and implementation of field-based science initiatives and
strategies; (3) provides situational awareness to CDC leadership when
activated for public health responses; (4) provides consultation and
technical assistance to STLT health departments in developing,
implementing and evaluating activities in support of CDC
recommendations and the host site; (5) provides direct support for
public health preparedness and epidemiologic capacity at the STLT
levels; (6) participates in the development of national preparedness
and response policies and guidelines for public health emergencies and
facilitates the transfer of guidelines into clinical and public health
practice; (7) serves as liaisons to CDC to assist STLT partners in
linking with proper resources, contacts and obtaining technical
assistance; (8) provides technical supervision and support for the CDC
field staff and trainees as appropriate; (9) provides input into the
development of branch and division policy, priorities, and operational
procedures; (10) analyzes technical and epidemiologic information to
present at national and international scientific meetings; (11)
publishes programmatic, surveillance, and epidemiologic information in
collaboration with host agencies; (12) develops and implements a
comprehensive training and field placement program for entry-level
public health preparedness and response professionals (Preparedness
Field Assignee Program); and (13) serves as a response resource for
local, regional, national, and international public health emergencies.
Office of the Director (CADC1). (1) manages day-to-day operations
of the division; (2) provides scientific leadership and consultation in
laboratory biosafety and biosecurity involving select agents and toxins
and other infectious agents; (3) supports the functional teams in the
Office of the Director; (4) plans for and implements sound
communications efforts in order to effectively and strategically inform
and influence key internal and external partners regarding the program;
(5) provides strategic planning, facilitating oversight studies of
Division of Regulatory Science and Compliance (DRSC), regulatory and
policy matters related to select agent and import permit programs, and
executes compliance actions; including, notification of some matters to
the HHSOffice of Inspector General; (6) develops and maintains
professional relationships and collaborates with internal (CDC CIOs)
and external partners (interagency partners, World Health Organization
(WHO) on matters involving laboratory biosafety and biosecurity of
select agents and toxins and other infectious agents (e.g., PV); (7)
manages personnel actions, travel, purchases as well as budget planning
and execution, contracts, and interagency agreement support for the
division; (8) minimizes the risk of PV release through effective
implementation and oversight of the global PV containment plan in the
United States; (9) provides leadership in developing and executing a
national PV containment program; (10) plans, establishes, and launches
the national survey and maintains the national inventory of PV
materials; (11) prepares and contributes to the annual national reports
on PV containment and eradication; (12) ensures U.S. facilities
transfer, inactivate or destroy PV materials appropriately, as needed;
(13) ensures containment measures are implemented for facilities
retaining PV, according to WHO's Global Action Plan; (14) develops and
publishes PV containment guidance and policies to U.S. containment
requirements; (15) works with internal and external partners to
establish science-based recommendations for PV containment; (16) audits
and certifies facilities as a PV-essential facility (PEF) according to
the WHO Containment Certification Scheme; (17) seeks WHO endorsement
for U.S. PEF certification applications; (18) provides annual training
and assists U.S. facilities working with PV materials to develop
containment programs; (19) supports the dissemination of PV-containment
information to Federal, state, and local agencies, private
organizations, and other national and international agencies; (20)
develops and distributes informational products for educational and
promotional activities related to PV containment; (21) provides
technical assistance and consultations to other countries in
establishing and implementing PV containment and national inventory
programs; (22) plans, directs, and supports research focused on PV
containment-related issues; (23) investigates exposures and root cause
analysis of a containment breach; and (24) collaborates with other CDC
entities, HHS agencies, academic institutions, private organizations,
Ministries of Health, WHO Headquarters and regional WHO offices, as
appropriate.
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Federal Select Agent Program Operations Branch (CADCB). (1)
processes entity applications for registration, awarding entities
certification, processing entity amendments to their registration,
performing inspections at regulated entities; (2) prepares reports of
inspections and conducts follow-up on noted deficiencies; (3) receives
reports of the theft, loss, or release of select agents or toxins; (4)
processes requests for transfers of select agents and toxins; (5)
processes reports of select agents or toxins identified through
diagnosis, verification or proficiency testing; (6) provides expert
advice to entities on compliance with the select agent regulations; (7)
serves as a liaison with the United States Department of Agriculture
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Select Agent Regulatory
Program on operational issues; and (8) performs assessment of foreign
select agent laboratories in accordance with inter-agency agreements.
Import Permit Program Operations Branch (CADCC). (1) processes
applications for permits to import infectious biological agents that
could cause disease in humans to prevent their introduction and spread
into the United States; (2) performs inspections to ensure facilities
receiving permits have appropriate biosafety measures in place to work
safely with the imported materials; (3) prepares reports of inspections
and conducts follow-up on noted deficiencies; (4) provides guidance and
support to assist the regulated community in meeting the requirements
of the import permit regulations; (5) collaborates with Innovation and
Information Technology Branch on the development and revisions for
improvement with the electronic Import Permit Program information
system; and (6) collaborates with CDC's Division of Global Migration
Health (which is charged with preventing the introduction,
transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries
into the United States) and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Biosafety, Science, Training and Expertise Branch (CADCE). (1)
provides scientific, biosafety, biosecurity, and facilities
consultation to the division and regulated community; (2) coordinates
and supports the CDC Intragovernmental Select Agent and Toxin Technical
Advisory Committee; (3) develops and implements training programs for
the division and conducts trainings and outreach to increase knowledge
of and compliance with the regulations and increase staff's ability to
conduct scientific research, writing and publishing and improve the
scientific basis for regulation; (4) develops, coordinates, and
implements the DRSC research agenda and for the clearing of DRSC
scientific manuscripts; (5) manages security risk assessment process
with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to provide
authorization for individuals to access select agents and toxins; (6)
assists the FBI with criminal investigations; (7) coordinates division
emergency response activities; and (8) provides expert advice to
entities on compliance with the select agent regulations.
Delete item 6 in the Division of Emergency Operations (CADD)
functional statement and insert the following:
(6) coordinates logistics, staffing, and other emergency management
functions support for cross-CIO responses.
Delete item 2 in the Resource Support Branch (CADDB) functional
statement and insert the following:
(2) directs the Resource Support Section within the EOC during CDC
emergency responses.
Delete items 3 and 8 in the Operations Branch (CADDC) functional
statement and insert the following:
(3) directs the Operations Section within the EOC during CDC
emergency responses.
(8) manages the EOC facility, including its processes and
components (e.g., audiovisual equipment and communications tools) to
maintain its operational capability, including when COOP plans are
implemented.
Delete items 2 and 3 in the Plans, Exercise, and Evaluation Branch
(CADDD) functional statement and insert the following:
(2) directs the Planning Section within the EOC during CDC
emergency responses. (3) develops, publishes, and maintains contingency
plans, incident action plans, transition plans, situation reports, and
evaluation products, including through the Planning Section.
Delete item 3 in the functional statement Emergency Management
Training and Capacity Development Branch (CADDE) and insert the
following:
(3) develops and delivers training curricula for emergency
responders and response leadership within CDC.
IV. Under Part C, Section C-B, Organization and functions, add the
following functional statements:
After the Field Assignments Branch (CADBB) within the Division of
State and Local Readiness (CADB), insert the following:
Grants Management and Fiscal Strategy Branch (CADBC). (1)
administers the pre-award, award, post-award, and closeout phases of
the Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) and Crisis Response
Cooperative Agreement (CRCA), in coordination with relevant
stakeholders; (2) monitors state, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT)
progress on programmatic activities of the PHEP and CRCA, as
applicable, to assure requirements are achieved; (3) provides technical
assistance related to grants management functions and fiscal strategy
to STLT partners; (4) provides grants management and fiscal strategy
expertise to agency stakeholders related to public health emergency
preparedness and response; (5) identifies, develops/coordinates the
development and implementation (as applicable) of innovative
operational solutions for agency and STLT administrative and fiscal
challenges related to preparedness and response activities; and (6)
maintains and operationalizes the CRCA to rapidly deliver response
funding to STLTs.
Jurisdictional Readiness and Response Support Branch (CADBD). (1)
provides direct consultation, technical assistance, and training to
STLT health departments in management and operation of activities to
support public health preparedness, response, and recovery; (2)
provides assistance to STLT governments and public health agencies to
prepare for effective responses to large scale public health events;
(3) serves as a primary conduit for STLT engagements with CDC during
public health emergency responses via the Health Department Liaison
Officers; (4) serves as the primary cadre of emergency responders from
the division, supporting various components of program, center, and
agency-led activations as a critical link with STLT partners; (5)
provides subject matter expertise related to STLT coordination for
preparedness and response planning; and (6) collaborates within the
agency, interagency, and jurisdictional partners during exercises and
responses.
Capacity Building and Technical Assistance Development Branch
(CADBE). (1) ensures high-quality technical assistance is available to
STLT jurisdictions on preparedness capabilities and the Response
Readiness Framework, in collaboration with other partners; (2) develops
or coordinates the development of tools and facilitates plans to
address identified gaps in jurisdictional operational readiness; (3)
improves the delivery of technical assistance to public health in
coordination with other branches of the division; (4) maintains a
training program organized around the Response
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Readiness Framework to improve internal and STLT readiness and response
performance; (5) develops and implements various communities of
practice across critical readiness and response-related topics, and (6)
maintains an information sharing platform to post resources and
facilitate the sharing of readiness and response-related best practices
across CDC and jurisdictions.
After item 9 of the Division of Regulatory Science and Compliance
(CADC) functional statement, insert the following: (10) leads in
developing and executing a national poliovirus (PV) containment program
and minimizes the risk of PV release through effective implementation
and oversight of the global PV containment plan in the United States
and (11) provides staff and operational and scientific expertise,
including through the EOC, for public health emergency responses and
exercises.
After the Division of Emergency Operations (CADD), insert the
following:
Division of Readiness and Response Science (CADE). (1) develops and
implements the science of readiness and response, builds scientific
expertise to address health disparities and community mitigation,
evaluates the STLT readiness and response, and informs a broader
framework for evaluating CDC's and partners' readiness state; (2)
advances and coordinates CDC's readiness and response science agenda in
partnership with CDC CIOs and partners (STLTs, non-governmental
organizations (NGOs), healthcare providers, academia, etc.); (3)
fosters innovation and advances and coordinates CDC readiness and
response to public health emergencies by building and enhancing
epidemiology, surveillance, health equity science, social and
behavioral science, community mitigation, and utilization, safety and
effectiveness of countermeasures in partnership with CDC CIOs; (4)
engages with various CDC leadership and partners to develop and
maintain partnerships, conduct research projects, maintain mutual
awareness of activities, and advocate for evidence-informed response
practices that works toward health equity; (5) provides subject matter
expertise, recommendations and guidelines, and a scientific basis for
CDC and national epidemiologic response protocols and surveillance
methods; (6) evaluates the effectiveness of public health interventions
as a key readiness activity to shorten the timeline for implementation
of a response during an emergency; (7) utilizes best practices to
collect, analyze, and interpret data and disseminate scientific
information for internal and external partners to make actionable
decisions; (8) socializes, implements, and reinforces established
health equity principles and strategies, in partnership with CDC's
Office of Health Equity; (9) establishes an agency-wide strategy and
coordinates activities across CDC CIOs on CDC's role in community
mitigation and social and behavioral science; (10) leads management and
maintenance of public health emergency preparedness, readiness, and
response information gathering, analysis, and sharing to support
response decision making; (11) supports and coordinates special
projects ; and (12) provides staff and scientific expertise, including
through the EOC, for public health emergency responses and exercises.
Office of the Director (CADE1). (1) provides leadership and
guidance that supports, advances, and creates the development,
research, and implementation infrastructure of readiness and response
science; (2) coordinates the development of policy and guidelines for
scientific readiness and response research and publication as well as
for evaluation of emergency preparedness programs; (3) creates
standards for implementation of readiness and response science to
improve emergency identification, response, and mitigation; (4)
provides agency-wide communication pertaining to evolving scientific
readiness and response research and publications; (5) communicates and
coordinates with STLT jurisdictions on state and local preparedness and
response issues to advance readiness and response research; (6)
develops and maintains effective partnerships with national partners
and preparedness and response partners to communicate scientific
evidence; (7) develops and maintains effective partnerships and
engagements with ORR staff and other CDC CIOs to establish and maintain
mutual awareness of activities and promote scientific capability,
capacity and quality; (8) develops and maintains effective partnerships
and engagements with ORR staff, other CDC CIOs, the academic community,
Federal agencies, and non-government research and practitioner
organizations to establish and maintain mutual awareness of activities
and advocate for evidence-informed practice related to populations with
access and functional needs and activities; (9) provides management and
information resources direction and support to Division of Readiness
and Response Science branches; (10) establishes and maintains Centers
for Public Health Preparedness and Response that may include
institutions of higher education, including accredited schools of
public health, or other nonprofit private entities to identify,
translate, and disseminate promising research findings or strategies
into evidence-informed or evidence-based practices; (11) evaluates
readiness and response of CDC, intramural funding recipients (e.g.,
Strategic Capacity Building and Innovation Program and external funding
recipients including STLT partners/jurisdictions, and NGO partners by
developing strategies, developing performance metrics on readiness and
response efforts, assessing performance, and specifically holding
grantees accountable to meet metrics; (12) develops draft protocols,
data collection instruments, and standards for rapid data collection in
collaboration with STLT partners to inform guidance and critical public
health action; (13) provides project management, IT, and other wrap
around support for special projects such as the Response Ready
Enterprise Data Integration (RREDI) platform; (14) fosters innovation
to advance science, mitigate risks, address current and future gaps,
and inform partnerships and investments; (15) provides development,
implementation, support and technical assistance regarding policies and
procedures for research funding proposals and announcements, technical
review, award selections, and award administration/management to
sponsoring divisions, applicants, and awardees; and (16) assists in the
development and maintenance of investigational new drug protocols and
emergency use authorizations for vaccinations, treatments, and
prophylaxis of selected bioterrorist agents.
Community-Based Solutions and Health Equity Branch (CADEB). (1)
addresses health equity readiness and leads agency-wide social and
behavioral science efforts (e.g., data, analytics, scientific
guidance), community-based readiness, and response mitigation
activities and engagements (e.g., in school settings, in correctional
facilities, for populations experiencing homelessness and housing
insecurity); (2) proposes, develops, conducts research projects, and
addresses the access- and functional-needs of populations at higher
risk for adverse effects (e.g., youth, populations experiencing
incarceration, and populations experiencing homelessness and housing
insecurity) including
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death, disability, and disease during emergency settings/responses
through ORR funded research solicitations; (3) maintains a network of
population-specific subject matter experts across CDC, fostering a
culture that addresses health equity issues for readiness and response
in domestic and international settings; (4) coordinates and supports
readiness and response efforts and health equity principles and
strategy with CDC's Office of Health Equity; (5) provides staff and
scientific expertise, including through the EOC, for public health
emergency responses and exercises, and supports the stand up and
coordination of the Chief Health Equity Officer structure and functions
during such activities; (6) provides technical assistance and expertise
in surveillance, epidemiology, and behavioral research to inform
guidelines and recommendations for schools, correctional and detention
facilities, people experiencing homelessness, and other populations
that are disproportionately affected in a response; (7) oversees and
coordinates the translation of scientific findings for healthcare
providers, public health professionals, and the public, on pediatric
preparedness and response matters; (8) develops and disseminates
guidelines and tools to help schools and other societal institutions
apply research synthesis findings to reduce priority health risks among
youth; (9) plans, implements, provides technical assistance, and
evaluates public health readiness and response efforts in emergency and
post-emergency settings; and (10) coordinates efforts with appropriate
Federal advisory committees as necessary.
Response Analytics, Decision Support, and Surveillance Branch
(CADEC). (1) provides CDC (and partners, as appropriate) reliable,
comprehensive, and high-quality information (e.g., event-based
surveillance) on international disease outbreaks and other health
threats as they emerge and evolve; (2) leads, in partnership with
Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, the management and
maintenance of public health emergency preparedness, readiness, and
response information gathering, analysis, and sharing through knowledge
management and scalable processes that support response decision
making; (3) provides readiness and response technical assistance to
international partners via deployments, data calls, etc.; (4)
establishes public health emergency preparedness vocabulary and
information exchange standards to meet the reporting and information
sharing requirements of cross-jurisdictional partners; (5) compiles,
correlates, supports response and CDC leadership decision-making; (6)
provides coordination, planning, and development support for data
collection, management, and production of analytics and geospatial
data, including GIS/mapping; (7) provides informatics, data management,
event-based surveillance and reporting technical assistance and support
to external Federal, STLT, and international partners; (8) conducts and
supports data management, information exchange, and risk communication
among Federal, STLT and international partners; (9) supports the
development, maintenance, and implementation of policies related to
public health emergency situational awareness, data analytics and
visualization, and knowledge management activities; and (10) leads
special projects such as the RREDI platform.
Public Health Readiness and Response Evaluation Branch (CADED). (1)
informs and supports the development and execution of an agency process
to evaluate CDC's performance in reaching readiness and response goals;
(2) integrates evaluation approaches with ongoing, routine practices
that involve engaging all partners, not just evaluation experts; (3)
develops strategy to evaluate achievement of readiness and response
objectives across relevant STLT funding mechanisms; (4) coordinates and
communicates with STLT units to efficiently evaluate readiness and
response effectiveness across programs; (5) assesses the effectiveness
of the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Cooperative Agreement via
performance measurement and evaluation; (6) develops and coordinates a
strategy to measure and report on jurisdictional operational readiness,
in consultation with Division of State and Local Readiness; (7)
provides analytic support and evaluation expertise to ORR offices,
center, and divisions; and (8) fosters innovation and efficiency in
evaluation and research through collaboration with partners.
V. Under Part C, Section C-B, Organization and Functions, the
following organizational unit is deleted in its entirety:
<bullet> Office of Communications (CBC14)
<bullet> Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation (CBC16)
<bullet> US National Authority for Containment of Poliovirus (CBC19)
<bullet> Program Implementation Office (CBCBB)
<bullet> Evaluation and Analysis Branch (CBCBC)
<bullet> Emergency Risk Communication Branch (CBCDB)
Delegations of Authority
All delegations and redelegations of authority made to officials
and employees of affected organizational components will continue in
them or their successors pending further redelegation, provided they
are consistent with this reorganization.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3101)
Robin D. Bailey, Jr.,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2023-14702 Filed 7-11-23; 8:45 am]
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