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Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

The program addresses the health effects of toxic substances in coordination with Federal, State and local partners. The program works to prevent harmful exposure and disease related to toxic substances through public health and scientific programs and information.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • The program is able to demonstrate its impact on the health of people living in communities exposed to toxic substances. Specifically, it documents the impact of its interventions at sites with known exposures by tracking progress on selected health outcomes.
  • ATSDR continues to improve efficiencies, moving from operational to programmatic efficiency. Its new efficiency measure reflects improved timeliness in disseminating public health findings and reducing costs in the process. Past efforts include consolidating ATSDR and the National Center for Environmental Health's Offices of the Director and Board of Scientific Counselors, saving $4.6 million.
  • Independent evaluations are ingrained in ATSDR's culture, with its Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) conducting program reviews for the past three years. Progress on fulfilling recommendations is actively monitored. Two program reviews and one cross-functional review were completed, with favorable results.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Tying budget requests to the accomplishment of annual and long-term goals, and present resource needs in a complete and transparent manner.
  • Conducting program peer reviews for research and public health programs through the use of its Board of Scientific Counselors and tracking and reporting progress on program improvements.

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