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OCR Page 1 of 73FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is a science-based, regulatory, and consumer
protection agency. Consumers rely on the FDA to ensure the safety of products in the
marketplace. The Agency's workforce is multi-cultural and multilingual and efforts focus
on improving the representation of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the FDA
workforce, and enhancing public participation opportunities.
The FDA has planned and initiated several projects to forge links with American Indians and
Alaska Natives, to provide education on FDA issues and policies, to foster adoption of their
ideas and agendas into the realm of the FDA's policy making, and to plan and implement the
Agency's overall public participation and outreach initiatives.
To promote and increase access, diversity, and active participation in the planning
and implementation in all education and education-related programs and services
directed to American Indians and Alaska Natives toward a strategic plan to improve
Indian education beyond the year 2000;
The FDA is working to intensify recruitment of American Indians and Alaska
Natives as Consumer Representatives on FDA Advisory Committees, and to
increase participation in Agency decision making. The FDA consults with the
Association of American Indian Physicians to recruit candidates for advisory
committees;
To support ongoing Departmental initiatives and to create alternative pipelines for
trained American Indians and Alaska Natives in medical, scientific, and health
related professions;
The FDA conducts recruitment and outreach efforts to American Indians and Alaska
Native populations through programs such as the Cooperative Education Program
(CO-OP), Commissioned Officer Student Training and Extern Program (COSTEP),
and the summer employment program;
The FDA plans to design and implement seminars to explain how to effectively
interact with the Agency through the advisory committee process, consumer
representation, and administrative rule-making procedures;
The FDA has increased outreach to American Indians and Alaska Natives through
participation in a variety of school-based programs, annual conferences and
exhibitions to expand outreach networks. These activities include interactions
with the National Congress of American Indians; Oklahoma's American Indian
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