Public Comment and Response

Attachment B-2

Summary of Public Comments and CDC Response

Federal Register Notice: A 60-day Notice was published in the Federal Register on April 26, 2016 (Volume 81, Number 80, pages 24615-24616)

CDC Response to Public Comment #1

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Jeanne Blankenship, MS RDN

Vice President, Policy Initiatives and Advocacy

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Dear Ms. Blankenship,

Thanks very much for your thoughtful comments and interest in the CDC Workplace Health Program. We are in full agreement with the Academy that primary prevention is the most effective, affordable course of action for preventing and reducing risk for chronic disease. We envision the CDC Workplace Health Promotion Resource Center to be a place where the most recent scientific evidence is summarized and translated for wellness practitioners. This would include CDC led investigations as well as other leaders in the field; data from our nationally representative survey of employers; available training and certification programs; and other publically available and credible information to assist wellness professionals.

Your constituency – RDNs, NDTRs, and advanced-degree nutritionists – are a key target audience for the information, tools, and resources that will comprise the Resource Center. One of our main goals is to make available the most recent, evidence-based materials in a consumer friendly way so that practitioners such as the professionals you represent, are in the best possible position to design and make available health promotion programs in the workplace. Having workplace health promotion programs implemented with workers across the country exposed to and participating in them will enable both individual employees and their employees to benefit.

We welcome any additional thoughts you may have as we continue to develop the Resource Center and would also greatly appreciate your organization promoting it through your network once it is available. We plan to have a very brief (2 minute) consumer feedback survey as part of the site once launched which will provide an additional opportunity to provide input that we can use to improve the site and the workplace health promotion tools and resources it houses.

For additional information, please visit our website, www.cdc.gov/workplacehealthpromotion. You can also email me directly at [email protected].

Thanks again for your thoughtful comments.

Jason E. Lang, MPH, MS

Team Lead, Workplace Health Programs

Division of Population Health

National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention