Agenda of the November 8, 2002 NCVHS Subcommittee on Populations

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NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON VITAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS

Subcommittee on Populations

November 8, 2002

Public Ledger Building
150 S. Independence Mall West
Conference Room 415
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Ph: 215-861-4667

9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.

Meeting Minutes

Transcript

8:30 am	Call to Order and Introductionsand Overview of Meeting	Vickie Mays, Ph.D., MSPH, Chair
8:35 am	Background of Subcommittee and Overview of Meeting	Chair
8:45 am	Welcoming Remarks	Dalton Paxman, Ph.D. Regional Health Administrator Region III, Dept. of Health and Human Services
8:50 am	Massachusetts Department of Health	Bruce Cohen, Ph.D. Director, Division of Research And Epidemiology
9:15 am	California Department of Health Services	Jane McKendry Chief, Vital Statistics Section Peter Abbott, MD Acting Deputy Director Health Information and Strategic Planning
9:30 am	Hawaii Department of Health	Alvin Onaka, Ph.D. Office of Health Status Monitoring
10:10 am	Discussion
10:40 am	Break
11:05 am	Vital Statistics Re-engineering Project	Delton Atkinson, Project Director, National Center for Health Statistics
11:45 am	Discussion
12:00 pm	*Lunch*
1:00 pm	Healthy Women: State Trends in Health and Mortality	Kate Brett, Ph.D. Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, NCHS
1:25 PM	National Women’s and Minority Indicators Database Project	Colleen Goodman Alfred Meltzer Quality Resource Systems, Inc
1:55 pm	Discussion
2:10 pm	Alabama Department of Public Health	Dorothy Harshberger State Registrar
2:35 pm	Tennessee Department of Health	Richard Urbano, Ph.D. Assistant Commissioner Bureau of Health Informatics
3:00 pm	Discussion
3:20 pm	*Break*
3:40 pm	Geocoding State Data and Establishing Collaborations	Nancy Krieger, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Dept. of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health
4:05 pm	Discussion
4:20 pm	Commentary	Daniel Friedman, Ph.D. Assistant Commissioner Bureau of Health Statistics, Research and Evaluation Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health
4:30 pm	Summary and next steps	Chair/Subcommittee
5:00 pm	Adjourn

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