42 U.S.C. § 280g–10 — Community Preventive Services Task Force

(a) Establishment and purpose. The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must convene an independent Community Preventive Services Task Force (the "Task Force"), made up of people with appropriate expertise. The Task Force must review scientific evidence on how effective, appropriate, and cost-effective community preventive interventions are, to develop recommendations. These recommendations get published in the Guide to Community Preventive Services (the "Guide") for people and organizations delivering population-based services, including primary care professionals, health care systems, professional societies, employers, community organizations, nonprofit organizations, schools, government public health agencies, Indian tribes, tribal organizations, urban Indian organizations, medical groups, Congress, and other policymakers. "Community preventive services" means any policies, programs, processes, or activities designed to affect, or that otherwise affect, health at the population level. (b) Duties. The Task Force's duties include: (1) developing additional topic areas for new recommendations and interventions, including ones related to specific populations and age groups, and to the social, economic, and physical conditions that broadly affect population health and health gaps between subpopulations and age groups; (2) at least once every 5 years, reviewing interventions and updating recommendations on existing topic areas, including new or improved ways to assess interventions' health effects, such as health impact assessment and population health modeling; (3) better integrating its work with federal government health goals and related target-setting; (4) spreading its recommendations more widely; (5) providing technical assistance to health care professionals, agencies, and organizations that request help implementing the Guide's recommendations; and (6) giving yearly reports to Congress and related agencies identifying research gaps and recommending priority areas needing further study, including populations and age groups not well covered by current recommendations. (c) Role of agency. The CDC Director must provide ongoing administrative, research, and technical support for the Task Force's operations, including coordinating and supporting the spread of its recommendations, making sure it has adequate staff, and assisting organizations that request help implementing the Guide's recommendations. (d) Coordination with Preventive Services Task Force. The Task Force must take appropriate steps to coordinate its work with the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, including examining how each task force's recommendations interact where clinical care and community programs meet. (e) Operation. In carrying out its subsection (b) duties, the Task Force is not subject to chapter 10 of title 5 (the Federal Advisory Committee Act). (f) Authorization of appropriations. Congress authorized such sums as may be necessary for each fiscal year to carry out the Task Force's activities.