Notice2023-14706
Reorganization of the Global Health Center
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July 12, 2023
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Health and Human Services DepartmentCenters for Disease Control and Prevention
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CDC has modified its structure. This notice announces the reorganization of the Global Health Center (GHC). GHC reorganized to ensure optimal strategic planning and implementation of CDC's global health work to protect the United States and achieve global public health impact.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 132 (Wednesday, July 12, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44359-44363]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-14706]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Reorganization of the Global Health Center
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 Global Health Center (GHC). GHC reorganized to
ensure optimal strategic planning and implementation of CDC's global
health work to protect the United States and achieve global public
health impact.
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#9fedfaf0edf8ecdffcfbfcb1f8f0e9"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2c5e49435e4b5f6c4f484f024b435a">[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
Global Health Center, 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:
<bullet> Global Health Center (CW)
<bullet> Office of the Director (CW1)
<bullet> Division of Global HIV and TB (CWB)
<bullet> Office of the Director (CWB1)
<bullet> International Laboratory Branch (CWBB)
<bullet> HIV Prevention Branch (CWBC)
<bullet> HIV Care and Treatment Branch (CWBD)
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<bullet> Maternal and Child Health Branch (CWBE)
<bullet> Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch (CWBG)
<bullet> Economics and Health Services Research Branch (CWBH)
<bullet> Overseas Strategy and Management Branch (CWBJ)
<bullet> Program Budget and Extramural Management Branch (CBK)
<bullet> Global Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Branch (CWBL)
<bullet> Science Integrity Branch (CWBM)
<bullet> Management and Operations Branch (CWBN)
<bullet> Strategy, Policy, and Communications Branch (CWBP)
<bullet> Special Initiatives Branch (CWBQ)
<bullet> Health Informatics, Data Management, and Statistics Branch
(CWBR)
<bullet> Monitoring, Evaluation, and Data Analysis Branch (CWBS)
<bullet> Global Immunization Division (CWC)
<bullet> Office of the Director (CWC1)
<bullet> Polio Eradication Branch (CWCB)
<bullet> Accelerated Disease Control and Vaccine Preventable Diseases
Surveillance Branch (CWCC)
<bullet> Immunization Systems Branch (CWCD)
<bullet> Strategic Information and Workforce Development Branch (CWCE)
<bullet> Division of Global Health Protection (CWD)
<bullet> Office of the Director (CWD1)
<bullet> Global Public Health Systems Branch (CWDB)
<bullet> Global Surveillance, Laboratory, and Data Systems Branch
(CWDC)
<bullet> Global Workforce Development Branch (CWDD)
<bullet> Global Program and Extramural Management Branch (CWDE)
<bullet> Global Public Health Emergency Branch (CWDG)
II. Under Part C, Section C-B, Organization and Functions, retitle
the following organizational units:
<bullet> Global Operations and Strategic Management Branch (CWEE) to
the Global Program and Extramural Management Branch (CWDE)
III. Under Part C, Section C-B, Organization and Functions, delete
the mission or functional statements for and replace with the
following:
Global Health Center (CW). The Global Health Center (GHC) (1) leads
the coordination and execution of CDC's global health country and
regional programs, to achieve maximum public health impact in support
of the agency mission; (2) works in partnership to assist ministries of
health to build capacity, maximize public health impact and promote
country ownership and sustainability; (3) achieves U.S. Government
(USG) and international organization goals to improve health, including
disease eradication and elimination targets; (4) strengthens CDC's
global health programs that focus on the leading causes of mortality,
morbidity and disability and improves international capabilities
through Global Health Security commitments to address public health
emergencies and threats; (5) generates and applies new knowledge to
achieve health goals; (6) strengthens health systems and their impact;
and (7) ensures broad and specific investments in global health to
promote USG commitments to protect health abroad and in the United
States and meet public health emergency needs and health threats in
international settings.
Office of the Director (CW1). (1) serves as the responsible
authority for regional and country planning and cross-program
integration, (2) harmonizes CDC global health priorities with host
country priorities and those of regional entities, and works with
ministries of health to improve essential public health functions,
maximize positive health outcomes and promote country ownership and
sustainability; (3) provides leadership, direction, and oversight,
regardless of program affiliation, to all CDC country directors and
regional directors in their role as a senior CDC representative with
the U.S. Embassy and ministry of health and in implementing CDC's
global health strategy in countries and across regional platforms; (4)
provides coordination for CDC's global health security strategy,
programs, policy and partnerships; (5) leads its divisions in
implementing public health programs and ensures the impact and
effectiveness of administration initiatives, congressionally-mandated
programs and other public health programs; (6) measures the performance
of CDC's global health programs in terms of public health impact and
fiscal accountability; (7) provides leadership to promote growth and
improvement of CDC global health programs; (8) provides scientific
leadership in developing and implementing evidence-based public health
interventions and promotes best scientific practice; (9) facilitates
the conduct and maintenance of ethical and high-quality, scientific
investigations by implementing regulatory requirements, monitoring
human subjects compliance, and clearing scientific products; (10) works
to strengthen surveillance systems to analyze, measure and evaluate the
global burden and distribution of disease; (11) promotes scientific
innovation and advances in global health surveillance, epidemiology,
monitoring and evaluation, and informatics; (12) harmonizes CDC's
global laboratory activities to strengthen laboratory capacity globally
and (13) promotes the introduction of innovative technologies and
approaches to improve the diagnostic and screening capability of
programs to better detect and respond to emerging pathogens; (14)
participates in defining, developing, shaping and implementing U.S.
global health policy and actions; (15) coordinates prioritization and
planning for visits of high level officials to CDC and other strategic
engagements; (16) provides leadership on issues management, budget
formulation and performance integration for country-specific, regional,
and geographic issues; (17) plans and executes CDC's internal and
external global health communications strategy and public affairs media
response/outreach in conjunction with CDC Immediate Office of the
Director; (18) provides oversight, guidance, and accountability for all
operations functions, human resources, workforce management, budget
formulation and distribution, extramural reviews and processing,
internal and domestic travel and property management responsibilities
for the Center; (19) provides holistic operations support for all CDC
workforce assigned overseas; (20) provides leadership and guidance in
international hiring actions, including temporary assignments and
liaison roles with international organizations, USG agencies, and
related global institutes; (21) develops and maintains an effective
global health workforce for CDC through strategic and innovative
personnel solutions, policies and training initiatives, while
demonstrating accountability for personnel resources and results of
human capital investment; (22) provides leadership and guidance on
informatics, information technology systems implementation, security,
governance and planning for the Center and CDC's overseas presence; and
(23) develops and ensures compliance with standardized management
processes and solutions for CDC country offices and regional offices.
Division of Global Health Protection (CWD). The Division of Global
Health Protection (DGHP) works to strengthen public health capacity
globally to protect Americans and people around the world from health
threats. DGHP helps to ensure global health protection and security
through supporting the implementation of the International Health
Regulations (IHR); developing and supporting in-country programs
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including Field Epidemiology Training Programs and other public health
workforce development programs, and the establishment or strengthening
of national public health institutes (NPHIs); detecting emerging health
threats; and by providing support to program and Center-led
international public health emergencies, and agency-wide responses.
DGHP works with partners to build strong, transparent, sustained public
health systems through training, consultation, capacity building, and
technical assistance in applied epidemiology, public health
surveillance, policy development, informatics and health information
systems, evaluation, implementation science, and laboratory systems.
Specifically, DGHP: (1) works collaboratively across CDC and with
external partners to provide country-based and international
coordination for public health systems strengthening, disease
detection, and IHR implementation; (2) provides support to build
operational readiness and country capacity for robust functional public
health leadership and coordination; and (3) provides resources and
assists in developing country-level epidemiology, surveillance and data
systems, laboratory, public health workforce and other core public
health capabilities and partners with countries to support NPHIs as
sustainable homes for public health preparedness and response to ensure
country emergency preparedness and capacity to respond to outbreaks and
incidents of local and international importance.
Office of the Director (OD) (CWD1). The DGHP OD provides
leadership, management, and oversight for division activities.
Specifically, the OD: (1) sets the broader strategy and priorities for
the division in coordination with GHC and other program partners; (2)
guides the implementation of the division's global health security
program priorities and ensures activities align with agency goals and
country priorities to support a ``one-CDC'' strategy; (3) develops and
promotes partnerships with both national and international
organizations, including other USG agencies, in support of division
activities; (4) provides oversight and support to Regional Country
Managers who provide programmatic leadership and technical supervision,
and to branches who provide programmatic leadership to technical
programs; (5) develops and implements risk management frameworks and
identifies, analyzes, and develops strategies to prevent, manage, and
respond to financial, legal, political, physical, and security risks
within the division; (6) ensures scientific quality, ethics, and
regulatory compliance; (7) develops and coordinates division policy and
communication strategies; (8) provides coordination of financial
planning and liaises with GHC and the Office of Financial Resources on
budget development and execution; (9) manages and coordinates division
staffing, personnel, and resources; (10) manages monitoring and
evaluation of division-supported activities to assess the effectiveness
and impact of investments to support partner governments in building
sustainable public health programs to address emerging health threats;
and (11) provides support to program and Center-led international
public health emergencies, and agency wide responses.
IV. Under Part C, Section C-B, Organization and Functions, add the
following functional statements:
Global Public Health Systems Branch (CWDB). The Global Public
Health Systems Branch (GPHSB) collaborates with government and key
partners to establish or strengthen public health systems to ensure
countries can quickly detect outbreaks and coordinate a national public
health response. Specifically, GPHSB: (1) partners with countries to
support the establishment or strengthening of NPHIs as sustainable
homes for public health preparedness and response; (2) assists with the
development of legal frameworks for NPHIs and operational plans for
public health security, supports the operational readiness of NPHIs,
and builds capacity for robust functional public health systems and
leadership, including coordination of public health emergency response
at national and sub-national levels; (3) partners with countries and
supports regional collaborations to build operational capacity for
public health response to ensure effective coordination and
mobilization of resources during public health emergencies; (4)
supports public health emergency management capacity building and
systems strengthening of countries to facilitate implementation and
enhance sustainable local, national and regional capacities,
coordination and collaboration; (5) supports emergency management and
response capacity building of CDC field staff and implementing
partners; (6) measures country capacities to prevent, detect, and
respond to infectious disease threats through existing evaluation
frameworks such as joint external evaluations and State Party Self-
assessment Annual Reporting and provide support for operational
planning to identify gaps within the 7-1-7 global health security
framework; (7) strengthens public health partnerships to promote
adherence to international health regulations; (8) identifies
implementation strategies to support public health systems
strengthening including primary care systems for health security,
building on and leveraging strategic investments, and coordinates with
appropriate subject-matter experts (SMEs) across GHC and other Centers,
Institute, and Offices (CIOs); (9) promotes scientific innovation and
advances implementation science to support the implementation of
evidence-based public health interventions and rapid uptake of best
practices; and (10) provides support to program and Center-led
international public health emergencies, and agency-wide responses.
Global Surveillance, Laboratory, and Data Systems Branch (CWDC).
The Global Surveillance, Laboratory, and Data Systems Branch (GSLDSB)
focuses on building country capacity to address gaps in the
modernization of disease-agnostic surveillance systems and supports
building robust laboratory systems that are well integrated into public
health systems and closely link epidemiology, laboratory, and
surveillance systems to improve early detection of outbreaks.
Specifically, GSLDSB: (1) provides oversight and accountability towards
meeting agency global public health surveillance, laboratory and
applied epidemiology objectives; (2) provides technical support on
surveillance (event-based, early warning, indicator-based, integrated
disease surveillance, etc.) to division field staff and supported
countries; (3) increases health informatics capacities and supports
data modernization and surveillance systems integration to improve
early detection and effective use of data for public health action; (4)
assists in the development and implementation of country national
laboratory strategies and in close collaboration with other CIOs
support capacities to strengthen early detection to outbreaks,
especially of diseases of international public health concern; (5)
provides technical assistance and scientific guidance to national
public health entities in mapping laboratories in countries, assessing
their diagnostic capacity for priority diseases, and supporting the
establishment or strengthening of robust sample referral networks; (6)
partners with CIOs and Offices to develop and conduct trainings based
on international guidelines that facilitate the timely
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transfer of newly emerging laboratory diagnostics and genomic
applications, especially for public health action; (7) provides
support, technical assistance, and trainings to promote biosafety,
biosecurity, and global health laboratory quality standards and best
practices, including through accreditations; (8) implements the Global
Laboratory Leadership Program, which works to foster and mentor current
and emerging leaders to build, strengthen, and sustain national
laboratory systems; (9) identifies surveillance and laboratory
implementation strategies building on and leveraging strategic
investments, and coordinates with technical groups in GHC and global
programs in other CIOs; (10) provides technical support for assessment,
laboratory, surveillance, monitoring, applied epidemiology, and
coordination during agency responses to public health emergencies; (11)
promotes scientific innovation and advances implementation science to
support implementation of evidence-based public health interventions
and rapid uptake of best practices; and (12) provides support to
program and Center-led international public health emergencies, and
agency wide responses.
Global Workforce Development Branch (CWDD). The Global Workforce
Development Branch (GWDB) plans and implements capacity-building
competencies, science, and policy to support a robust public health
workforce needed to strengthen countries' capacity to address public
health threats at national, sub-national, and local levels.
Specifically, GWDB: (1) partners with countries to develop and
implement public health and emergency response workforce strategies
that lead to sustainable improvements in time to detect, report, and
respond to outbreaks, with an emphasis on field epidemiology, emergency
response, health information, and bio-informatics; (2) implements the
Field Epidemiology Training Program to support the development and
sustainability of trained field epidemiologists in priority countries,
with focus on foundational skills needed to collect, analyze, and
interpret data to support evidence-based decision-making and inform
timely public health action; (3) partners with other CIOs,
international and regional organizations, and countries to develop and
implement health information and bioinformatics workforce strategies
that lead to sustainable improvements in time to detect, report, and
respond to outbreaks; (4) supports building capacity of frontline
health care workforce in countries using standardized approaches to
improve their skills to identify priority diseases and quickly respond
to public health emergencies; (5) provides technical support to expand
global public health workforce needed to stop outbreaks at their source
in priority countries; (6) promotes scientific innovation and advances
implementation science to support implementation of evidence-based
public health interventions and rapid uptake of best practices in
coordination with appropriate SMEs across GHC and other CIOs; (7)
provides support to program and Center-led international public health
emergencies, and agency wide responses; and (8) plans, implements, and
evaluates training courses and workshops to strengthen in-country
technical capacity in public health emergency situations in close
coordination with relevant global programs and other CIOs.
Global Program and Extramural Management Branch (CWDE). The Global
Program and Extramural Management Branch (GPEMB) provides cross-cutting
coordination to support country-specific program planning,
implementation, management, and oversight for division extramural
functions, including grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, and
interagency agreements. Specifically, GPEMB: (1) supports division
headquarters and country staff to implement management and operations,
and financial systems to effectively support public health systems that
strengthen, advance, and protect health security, enhance health
equity, and respond to public health emergencies; (2) facilitates
program planning and implementation; fiscal and extramural management;
personnel management; and administrative support in division country
offices; (3) serves as a liaison between headquarters and the field to
identify management and operations challenges, obstacles, and successes
in implementing division activities in country offices; (4) executes
effective program hiring, staffing requirements, oversight, and
accountability for division in country offices in coordination with
division branches, offices, and the OD; (5) in coordination with CIOs,
facilitates and manages the development, cross CIO coordination of SME
review, clearance, award, and close-out of all new and on-going
division headquarters and country program office grants, cooperative
agreements, contracts, and interagency agreements; (6) provides
oversight, monitoring, and facilitates reporting for all division
grants, cooperative agreements, contracts, and interagency agreements;
(7) supports agency efforts during public health emergencies by
coordinating, facilitating, and managing programmatic priorities and
extramural functions in concert with GHC and other divisions; (8)
promotes scientific innovation and advances implementation science to
support implementation of evidence-based public health interventions
and rapid uptake of best practices. In coordination with CIOs and
global programs; and (9) provides support to program and Center-led
international public health emergencies, and agency wide responses.
Global Public Health Emergency Branch (CWDG). The Global Public
Health Emergency Preparedness Branch (GPHEPB) builds public health
emergency management capacities to address global health security
threats. Specifically, GPHEPB: (1) provides technical assistance and
resources for public health disease surveillance, monitoring and
evaluation, and applied epidemiology, in public health emergency
settings in coordination with appropriate SMEs across GHC and other
CIOs; (2) develops technical guidelines in collaboration with other
CIOs on public health issues associated with international humanitarian
emergencies; (3) plans and implements operational assessments aimed at
developing the most effective public health interventions for
populations in emergency settings in close coordination with relevant
global programs and other CIOs; (4) supports strengthening strategic
water, sanitation, hygiene monitoring, and intervention in
collaboration with other CIOs in humanitarian settings; (5) liaises
with international, bilateral, and non-governmental relief
organizations involved with humanitarian emergencies; (6) promotes
scientific innovation and advances implementation science to support
implementation of evidence-based public health interventions and rapid
uptake of best practices in coordination with global programs across
GHC and other CIOs; and (8) provides support to program and Center-led
international public health emergencies, and agency wide responses.
V. Under Part C, Section C-B, Organization and Functions, the
following organizational units are deleted in its entirety:
<bullet> Office of the Associate Director for Global Health
Coordination (CAE)
<bullet> Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria (CBBC)
<bullet> Workforce and Institute Development Branch (CBBEC)
<bullet> Global Operations and Strategic Management Branch (CBBED)
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<bullet> Global Epidemiology, Laboratory, and Surveillance Branch
(CWED)
<bullet> Global Operations and Strategic Management Branch (CWEE)
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. 2023-14706 Filed 7-11-23; 8:45 am]
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