I just found the following notice, which relates to the Institute of
Medicine report:
DN - 63FR48741 Working Group on Public Participation in
Archive-Name: gov/us/fed/nara/fed-register/1998/sep/11/63FR48741
Posting-number: Volume 63, Issue 176, Page 48741
[Federal Register: September 11, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 176)]
[Notices]
[Page 48741]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
National Institutes of Health
Working Group on Public Participation in NIH Activities; Notice
of Meeting
The Office of the Director (OD), National Institutes of Health (NIH),
announces a meeting on public participation in NIH activities. The
meeting is scheduled for September 23, 1998, from 9:00 a.m. until
4:00 p.m., Conference Room 10, Building 31C, Sixth Floor, 9000
Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland. At the meeting, individual
public participants invited by the NIH will discuss future activities
and responsibilities of the proposed NIH Director's Council of Public
Representatives, and the NIH Offices of Public Liaison. The NIH is
the lead Federal agency that provides major support for medical
research leading to the improvement of the nation's health. The NIH
Director's Council of Public Representatives will serve as a forum
for discussing issues and concerns and exchanging viewpoints that are
important to NIH policies, programs, and research priorities. The NIH
Offices of Public Liaison are expected to strengthen collaboration
between the NIH and the public. Establishment of the Director's
Council of Public Representatives and the Offices of Public Liaison
were recommendations from the National Academy of Sciences Institute
of Medicine's report--Scientific Opportunities and Public Needs:
Improving Priority Setting and Public Input at the National
Institutes of Health. The full text of the report is available
on-line at the following site of the Institute of Medicine, National
Academy of Sciences: http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/ books/nih/.
Future activities will follow from the NIH's Office of Public Liaison
and the Director's Council of Public Representatives. The entire
meeting is open to the public; however, seating is limited and will
be on a first-come, first-served basis. There will be an overflow
room available to listen to and view the proceedings of the meeting.
Individuals who plan to attend and need special assistance, such as
sign language interpretation or other reasonable accommodations,
should notify the contact person listed below in advance of the
meeting. Individual public participants invited by the NIH will be
asked to express their views on matters related to the following:
Director's Council of Public Representatives
<bullet> What should be the responsibilities and activities of the
Director's Council of Public Representatives?
<bullet> What is the role of this Director's Council of Public
Representatives as compared to the role of other NIH Advisory
Councils?
<bullet> Describe some activities that could be undertaken by the
Director's Council of Public Representatives to encourage and improve
public participation in NIH programs.
<bullet> What processes, mechanisms, and criteria should be used for
identifying appropriate candidates to serve on the Director's Council
of Public Representatives?
The NIH Offices of Public Liaison
<bullet> What should be the responsibilities and activities of the
NIH Offices of Public Liaison?
<bullet> Should all of the Institute-level Offices of Public Liaison
perform the same activities?
<bullet> How should the activities of the OD Office of Public Liaison
differ from those of the Institute-level Offices of Public Liaison?
<bullet> How should NIH make the existence of the Offices of Public
Liaison known and to whom?
<bullet> How should the Offices of Public Liaison reach out to draw
the public into NIH activities?
<bullet> What programs and activities should the Offices of Public
Liaison consider that have been particularly successful in providing
public viewpoints to the NIH?
Additional Questions
<bullet> What should be the relationship between the Offices of
Public Liaison and the Director's Council of Public Representatives?
<bullet> What programs from other research agencies or organizations
could serve as models for either the Director's Council of Public
Representatives or the Offices of Public Liaison in involving the
public more effectively in NIH activities?
<bullet> What do various segments of the public need and want to know
about the NIH's activities, research, and operations that could be
imparted through the Director's Council of Public Representatives or
the Offices of Public Liaison?
<bullet> How can the Director's Council of Public Representatives
and/or the Offices of Public Liaison help in conveying this
information to those segments of the public?
<bullet> Identify activities to disseminate information about and
from the Offices of Public Liaison and the Director's Council of
Public Representatives to the appropriate public audiences.
Discussion of these questions will help NIH in identifying people to
serve on the Director's Council of Representatives and will be used
by the Director's Council of Public Representatives and the Offices
of Public Liaison to identify activities and frame the issues for
discussion at future public meetings. Public comments and requests
for additional information should be mailed to Ms. Anne Thomas,
Associate Director for Communications, National Institutes of Health,
Building 1, Room 344, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Dated: September 2, 1998.
Anne Thomas,
Associate Director for Communications, NIH.
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