# Board of Scientific Counselors, Office of Infectious Diseases (BSC, OID)
In accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), announces the following meeting of the aforementioned committee:
*Time and Date:* 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., November 9, 2011.
*Place:* CDC, Global Communications Center, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., Building 19, Auditorium B3, Atlanta, Georgia 30333.
*Status:* Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
*Purpose:* The BSC, OID, provides advice and guidance to the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services; the Director, CDC; the Director, OID; and the Directors of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, and the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC, in the following areas: strategies, goals, and priorities for programs; research within the national centers; and overall strategic direction and focus of OID and the national centers.
*Matters To Be Discussed:* The meeting will include brief updates from OID and the three infectious disease national centers, a report from the OID/BSC Food Safety Modernization Act working group, and presentation of the recently released strategic framework for CDC's infectious disease programs. The main topic of the meeting will include a focused discussion, with breakout groups, on the changing roles and responsibilities for public health infectious disease laboratories and the challenges and opportunities related to new diagnostics, other technologic advances, and a changing economic environment.
Agenda items are subject to change as priorities dictate.
*Contact Person for More Information:* Robin Moseley, M.A.T., Designated Federal Officer, OID, CDC, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., Mailstop D10, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, *Telephone:* (404) 639-4461.
The Director, Management Analysis and Services Office has been delegated the authority to sign *Federal Register* notices pertaining to announcements of meetings and other committee management activities, for both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
Dated: October 6, 2011.
Catherine Ramadei,
Acting Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.