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The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
June 10, 2010
Executive Order-- Establishing the National Prevention, Health
Promotion, and Public Health Council
EXECUTIVE ORDER
ESTABLISHING THE NATIONAL PREVENTION, HEALTH PROMOTION, AND PUBLIC
HEALTH COUNCIL
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States of America, including section 4001 of
the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148),
it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Establishment. There is established within the Department
of Health and Human Services, the National Prevention, Health
Promotion, and Public Health Council (Council).
Sec. 2. Membership.
(a) The Surgeon General shall serve as the Chair of the Council,
which shall be composed of:
(1) the Secretary of Agriculture;
(2) the Secretary of Labor;
(3) the Secretary of Health and Human Services;
(4) the Secretary of Transportation;
(5) the Secretary of Education;
(6) the Secretary of Homeland Security;
(7) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency;
(8) the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission;
(9) the Director of National Drug Control Policy;
(10) the Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic
Policy Council;
(11) the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs;
(12) the Chairman of the Corporation for National and Community
Service; and
(13) the head of any other executive department or agency that the
Chair may, from time to time, determine is appropriate.
(b) The Council shall meet at the call of the Chair.
Sec. 3. Purposes and Duties. The Council shall:
(a) provide coordination and leadership at the Federal level, and
among all executive departments and agencies, with respect to
prevention, wellness, and health promotion practices, the public
health system, and integrative health care in the United States;
(b) develop, after obtaining input from relevant stakeholders, a
national prevention, health promotion, public health, and
integrative health-care strategy that incorporates the most
effective and achievable means of improving the health status of
Americans and reducing the incidence of preventable illness and
disability in the United States, as further described in section 5
of this order;
(c) provide recommendations to the President and the Congress
concerning the most pressing health issues confronting the United
States and changes in Federal policy to achieve national wellness,
health promotion, and public health goals, including the reduction
of tobacco use, sedentary behavior, and poor nutrition;
(d) consider and propose evidence-based models, policies, and
innovative approaches for the promotion of transformative models of
prevention, integrative health, and public health on individual and
community levels across the United States;
(e) establish processes for continual public input, including input
from State, regional, and local leadership communities and other
relevant stakeholders, including Indian tribes and tribal
organizations;
(f) submit the reports required by section 6 of this order; and
(g) carry out such other activities as are determined appropriate by
the President.
Sec. 4. Advisory Group.
(a) There is established within the Department of Health and Human
Services an Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and
Integrative and Public Health (Advisory Group), which shall report
to the Chair of the Council.
(b) The Advisory Group shall be composed of not more than 25 members
or representatives from outside the Federal Government appointed by
the President and shall include a diverse group of licensed health
professionals, including integrative health practitioners who are
representative of or have expertise in:
(1) worksite health promotion;
(2) community services, including community health centers;
(3) preventive medicine;
(4) health coaching;
(5) public health education;
(6) geriatrics; and
(7) rehabilitation medicine.
(c) The Advisory Group shall develop policy and program
recommendations and advise the Council on lifestyle-based chronic
disease prevention and management, integrative health care
practices, and health promotion.
Sec. 5. National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy. Not later
than March 23, 2011, the Chair, in consultation with the Council,
shall develop and make public a national prevention, health
promotion, and public health strategy (national strategy), and shall
review and revise it periodically. The national strategy shall:
(a) set specific goals and objectives for improving the health of
the United States through federally supported prevention, health
promotion, and public health programs, consistent with ongoing goal
setting efforts conducted by specific agencies;
(b) establish specific and measurable actions and timelines to carry
out the strategy, and determine accountability for meeting those
timelines, within and across Federal departments and agencies; and
(c) make recommendations to improve Federal efforts relating to
prevention, health promotion, public health, and integrative
health-care practices to ensure that Federal efforts are consistent
with available standards and evidence.
Sec. 6. Reports. Not later than July 1, 2010, and annually
thereafter until January 1, 2015, the Council shall submit to the
President and the relevant committees of the Congress, a report
that:
(a) describes the activities and efforts on prevention, health
promotion, and public health and activities to develop the national
strategy conducted by the Council during the period for which the
report is prepared;
(b) describes the national progress in meeting specific prevention,
health promotion, and public health goals defined in the national
strategy and further describes corrective actions recommended by the
Council and actions taken by relevant agencies and organizations to
meet these goals;
(c) contains a list of national priorities on health promotion and
disease prevention to address lifestyle behavior modification
(including smoking cessation, proper nutrition, appropriate
exercise, mental health, behavioral health, substance-use disorder,
and domestic violence screenings) and the prevention measures for
the five leading disease killers in the United States;
(d) contains specific science-based initiatives to achieve the
measurable goals of the Healthy People 2020 program of the
Department of Health and Human Services regarding nutrition,
exercise, and smoking cessation, and targeting the five leading
disease killers in the United States;
(e) contains specific plans for consolidating Federal health
programs and centers that exist to promote healthy behavior and
reduce disease risk (including eliminating programs and offices
determined to be ineffective in meeting the priority goals of the
Healthy People 2020 program of the Department of Health and Human
Services);
(f) contains specific plans to ensure that all Federal health-care
programs are fully coordinated with science-based prevention
recommendations by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention; and
(g) contains specific plans to ensure that all prevention programs
outside the Department of Health and Human Services are based on the
science-based guidelines developed by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention under subsection (d) of this section.
Sec. 7. Administration.
(a) The Department of Health and Human Services shall provide
funding and administrative support for the Council and the Advisory
Group to the extent permitted by law and within existing
appropriations.
(b) All executive departments and agencies shall provide information
and assistance to the Council as the Chair may request for purposes
of carrying out the Council's functions, to the extent permitted by
law.
(c) Members of the Advisory Group shall serve without compensation,
but shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of
subsistence, as authorized by law for persons serving intermittently
in Government service (5 U.S.C. 5701-5707), consistent with the
availability of funds.
Sec. 8. General Provisions.
(a) Insofar as the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5
U.S.C App.) may apply to the Advisory Group, any functions of the
President under that Act, except that of reporting to the Congress,
shall be performed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in
accordance with the guidelines that have been issued by the
Administrator of General Services.
(b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise
affect:
(1) authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or
the head thereof; or
(2) functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or
benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity
by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies,
or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other
person.
BARACK OBAMA
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 10, 2010
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