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.

8:30 am Call to Order and Introductionsand Overview of Meeting Vickie Mays, Ph.D., MSPH, Chair
8:35 am Background of Subcommittee Chair
8:45 am Welcoming Remarks Dalton Paxman, Ph.D.
Regional Health Administrator
Region III, Dept. of Health and Human Services
8:50 am State Perspectives on Collection and Use of Racial and Ethnic Data

Massachusetts Department of Health

California Department of Health Services


Hawaii Department of Health

 Bruce Cohen, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Research And Epidemiology

Peter Abbott, MD
Acting Deputy Director Health Information and Strategic Planning

Alvin Onaka, Ph.D.
Office of Health Status Monitoring
10:00 am Discussion
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Alabama Department of Public Health

Tennessee Department of Health

 Dorothy Harshberger
State Registrar

Richard Urbano, Ph.D.
Assistant Commissioner
Bureau of Health Informatics
11:45 am Discussion
12:15 pm Lunch
Working With States
1:15 pm Healthy Women: State Trends in Health and Mortality

National Women’s and Minority Indicators Database Project

Geocoding State Data and Establishing Collaborations

 Kate Brett, Ph.D.
Office of Analysis and Epidemiology, NCHS

Colleen Goodman
QRS

Nancy Krieger, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Dept. of Health and Social Behavior,
Harvard School of Public Health
2:30 pm Discussion
3:00 pm Break
3:15 pm Vital Statistics Re-engineering Project Delton Atkinson,
Project Director,
National Center for Health Statistics
3:45 pm Discussion
4:15 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
4:45 pm Adjourn