Notice2024-02018
Reorganization of the National Center for Environmental Health
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Published
February 1, 2024
Effective
January 26, 2024
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentCenters for Disease Control and Prevention
Abstract
CDC has modified its structure. This notice announces the reorganization of the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH). NCEH retitled three branches and established the Environmental Public Health Tracking Branch.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 22 (Thursday, February 1, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6526-6527]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-02018]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Reorganization of the National Center for Environmental Health
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 National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH).
NCEH retitled three branches and established the Environmental Public
Health Tracking Branch.
DATES: This reorganization was approved by the Director of CDC on
January 26, 2024 and became effective January 26, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: D'Artonya Graham, Office of Strategic
Business Initiatives, 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#ee9c8b819c899dae8d8a8dc0898198"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ee9c8b819c899dae8d8a8dc0898198">[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 69188-69190, dated
October 5, 2023) is amended to reflect the reorganization of the
National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. Specifically, the changes are as follows:
I. Under Part C, Section C-B, Organization and Functions, make the
following changes:
<bullet> Update the functional statements and retitle all references to
the Asthma and Community Health Branch (CNCC) to the Asthma and Air
Quality Branch (CNCC)
<bullet> Update the functional statements and retitle all references to
the Lead Poisoning Prevention and Environmental Health Tracking Branch
(CNCD) to the Lead Poisoning Prevention and Surveillance Branch (CNCD)
<bullet> Update the functional statements and retitle the Emergency
Management, Radiation, and Chemical Branch (CNCE) to the Emerging
Environmental Hazards and Health Effects Branch (CNCE)
II. Under Part C, Section C-B, Organization and Functions, after
the Emerging Environmental Hazards and Health Effects Branch insert the
following organizational unit:
<bullet> Environmental Public Health Tracking Branch (CNCG)
III. Under Part C, Section C-B, Organization and Functions, insert
the following:
Asthma and Air Quality Branch (CNCC) (1) develops, implements, and
evaluates asthma programs and strategies that are part of the National
Asthma Control Program to reduce asthma morbidity and mortality; (2)
conducts epidemiologic research and investigations of asthma morbidity
and mortality; (3) develops program, conducts epidemiologic analysis
and supports other activities to address social determinants of health
related to asthma disparities; (4) supports surveillance activities for
asthma, and other respiratory diseases, as appropriate, to quantify
burden and guide programs; (5) identifies the evidence for, promotes,
and tracks interventions that reduce the burden of asthma, focusing on
populations with a disproportionate burden of the disease; (6) develops
and disseminates training, tools, communication products, and other
resources to strengthen and sustain asthma control activities and
technical capacity among national, state, tribal, local, territorial
and other program partners; (7) provides technical consultation to
state, local, private, international, and other federal agencies on
asthma control, surveillance, epidemiology, and evaluation (including
economic evaluation; (8) disseminates and promotes information from
surveillance and health studies related to asthma control; (9) conducts
epidemiologic research and investigations of the potential health
effects of ambient air pollutants, including wildfire smoke; (10)
designs and evaluates behavioral, communication, policy, technological,
and community design interventions to reduce exposures to air pollution
and improve health; (11) supports activities to reduce indoor air
pollution; (12) develops and coordinates training and decision support
tools to strengthen and sustain air pollution activities and technical
capacity among national, state, tribal, local, and territorial program
partners; (13) provides technical consultation to federal, state,
tribal, local, territorial, private, and international agencies on
environmental issues related to air pollutants; (14)
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disseminates, communicates, and promotes information to protect
communities from adverse health impacts from air pollution; and (15)
coordinates asthma- and air quality-related activities throughout CDC.
Lead Poisoning Prevention and Surveillance Branch (CNCD) (1)
establishes, monitors, and evaluates goals and objectives for a
national childhood lead poisoning prevention program and blood lead
surveillance system for CDC; (2) develops and implements an integrated
national program to eliminate childhood lead poisoning through
partnerships with U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, other federal agencies, and
national organizations; (3) coordinates efforts of federal, state,
local, tribal and territorial agencies that have programs related to
childhood lead exposure and prevention to achieve national objectives
and performance standards related to eliminating childhood lead
poisoning; (4) supports state, local, tribal and territorial health
agencies, and other stakeholders, in planning, developing, and
implementing childhood lead poisoning prevention programs and blood
lead surveillance systems; (5) collects, analyzes, and disseminates
data on blood lead levels in U.S. children; (6) develops, conducts, and
evaluates epidemiologic research on childhood lead poisoning including
risk factors, geographic distribution, and trends; (7) works
collaboratively across, NCEH, CDC and with external partners to build
capacity for science, innovation, and translation research to
accelerate progress towards national lead poisoning prevention goals;
(8) develops and implements, in concert with other federal agencies,
national organizations, and other appropriate groups, a training agenda
for public health professionals related to childhood lead poisoning
prevention and surveillance activities; (9) administers the CDC/NCEH
Federal Advisory Committee relevant to lead poisoning prevention; and
(10) coordinates lead poisoning prevention and surveillance activities
through the Division, Center, and with other components of CDC and
external stakeholders, as appropriate.
Emerging Environmental Hazards and Health Effects Branch (CCNCE)
(1) promotes public health protection from environmental hazards and
exposures, as well as environmental health disasters--both natural and
technological--through education, training, and information
dissemination to the general public as well as the public health and
clinician communities; (2) serves as the CDC lead to prepare for and
respond to natural, nuclear/radiological, and chemical emergencies; (3)
provides CDC leadership to protect public health and safety through
independent oversight of the Army destruction mission including
stockpiled weapons and recovered chemical weapons; (4) addresses
environmental health emerging hazards by conducting surveillance,
public health response, and environmental epidemiologic investigations
and studies; (5) responds to outbreak or cluster investigations of non-
infectious etiology; and (6) builds the environmental epidemiology
capacity of domestic and international public health partners.
Environmental Public Health Tracking Branch (CNCG) (1) develops and
maintains the National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network,
the cornerstone of the Environmental Public Health Tracking Program,
which connects environmental and health data at the national, state,
and local levels to drive innovative, cutting-edge programs and
solutions that protect and improve the health of communities across the
country; (2) collects, integrates, analyzes, and disseminates non-
infectious disease, environmental, and sociodemographic data from a
collective of partners at the national, state, and local levels; (3)
delivers health, exposure, and hazards data, information summaries, and
tools to enable analysis, visualization, and reporting of insights
drawn from data; (4) provides timely, local, accessible information
that drives actions to improve community health; and (5) empowers
environmental and public health practitioners, healthcare providers,
community members, policy makers, and others to make information-driven
decisions that affect their health.
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 Bailey, Jr.,
Chief Operating Officer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2024-02018 Filed 1-31-24; 8:45 am]
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