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CAMICC
CHARTER
"Working
Collaboratively to Eliminate Health Disparities"
Purpose
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Established by OD, CDC: |
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To promote health and quality of life by fostering
and supporting actions to reduce the disproportionate burden of
preventable disease, injury, disability, and death among specific
racial and ethnic minority populations. |
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To participate with the Director CDC/
Administrator ATSDR, CDC Deputies, Assistant Administrator ATSDR, and
Centers/Institute/Office (CIO) Directors to provide leadership for
minority health action. |
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To establish a direct communication and action link
related to minority health between the Office of Minority Health, OD
and CIOs/ATSDR. |
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To promote and enhance diversity at CDC and
ATSDR by assisting development and implementation of CDC and
ATSDR programs. |
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Specific Functions
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Coordinating CDC/ATSDR activities to support all
Executive Branch, Department of Health and Human Services, and
Public Health Service minority health initiatives and CIO response
to DHHS requests for information on CDC and ATSDR minority health
activities. |
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Serving as an advisor to the Director CDC/Administrator
ATSDR, CDC Deputies, Assistant Administrator ATSDR, and CIO
Directors on minority health initiatives and issues affecting the
agency. |
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Serving as a consulting body for minority health-related
issues and making recommendations to the CIOs and/or Director CDC/Administrator
ATSDR when appropriate. |
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Providing leadership for developing, revising, and
implementing crosscutting minority health policies and action plans. |
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Participating with senior managers to set priorities and
objectives, define action agendas, ensure priorities are
implemented, and monitor progress. |
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Assisting CIOs and ATSDR to implement systems to monitor
and evaluate the effectiveness of agency programs to reduce health
disparities. |
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Building momentum among CIOs and ATSDR for support and
integration of agency-wide minority health activities and
strategies. |
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Supporting minority health by
identifying research, data and programmatic needs and new and
expanded resources. |
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Building networks and providing a forum for information
exchange among CIO and ATSDR staff and among CAMICC representatives
and other participants. |
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Communicating minority health issues and action agendas
to CIO and ATSDR program, administrative, and scientific staff. |
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Recognizing and rewarding quality minority health
activities. |
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Supporting minority student training and
professional development through CDC, ATSDR, and HRMO internships, fellowships, and
collaboration with institutions of higher learning. |
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Identifying and disseminating new information, for
example, relevant reports from research and academic groups such as
the Institute of Medicine, findings from community participatory
research, and studies of prevention effectiveness and best practices
to reduce health disparities. |
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Fostering the development of effective methods for
surveillance, research, communication, intervention, and assessment
in minority populations. |
Membership
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The CIO Directors and Assistant Administrator ATSDR
designate staff from their units as principal and alternate members
of CAMICC. Although CIOs may have principal and alternate
representatives present at any meeting, there will be only one vote
per CIO. |
Subcommittees and
Workgroups
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Subcommittees made up of CAMICC members will be formed
as needed for targeted activities that support the work of CAMICC. |
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Agency-wide work groups will also be formed as needed
for designated activities, and will be responsible for developing
CIO-specific responses and collecting and reporting information. |
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Staff of OMH will participate on all subcommittees or
working groups. |
Chair/Vice Chair
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The Associate Director for Minority Health (ADMH) will
chair the CAMICC. |
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A Vice-Chair will be elected every two years by the
CAMICC membership and will assist the Chair in conducting meetings
and serve as the Chair in his/her absence. |
Meetings
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Meetings will be held approximately monthly and
scheduled by the CAMICC Chair. |
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Any member may submit agenda items to the Chair.
Proposed agenda items must be received at least 10 days before the
next scheduled meeting. |
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Meeting agendas and summaries will be distributed at
least one week before any scheduled meeting. |
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When necessary, decisions will be made by the majority
of voting members present. |
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All appropriate recommendations will be forwarded to the
Director CDC/Administrator ATSDR through the ADMH reporting chain
for appropriate action. |
CAMICC
CAMICC Representatives
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