From: Ashman, Jill (CDCIOPHSSINCHS)

Sent: 31 Aug 2017 17:57:13 +0000

To: Rui, Pinyao (CTR);Schappert, Susan NI.
Naga Karishma 
Christine Akintunde Geoffrey
Alexander Kari 

Subject: FW: Important: ALL correspondence with media must now be cleared through
Atlanta
Importance: High

Please be careful when you are reSponding to data requests. lfa request is received from the
media, make sure to follow the procedures below.

From: Lancashire, Jeffrey H. 

Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 1:37 PM

To: CDC OPHSS NCHS 

Subject: Important: ALL correspondence with media must now be cleared through Atlanta
Importance: High

Attention NCHS Staff:

Per Katherine Lyon Daniel, the CDC Associate Director for Communications, effective immediately and
until further notice, any and all correspondence with any member of the news media, regardless of the
nature ofthe inquiry, must be cleared through Atlanta Communications office. This
correspondence includes everything from formal interview requests to the most basic of data requests.
This new procedure will be in effect for all of CDC.

For NCHS staff, this means that if you are directly contacted by a reporter by phone or email, even for a
simple data-related question, the inquiry will have to be routed through Atlanta for clearance. Thus,
please forward all of these inquiries directly to the Public Affairs Office email box at: paoguery@cdc.gov
and we will route it through the clearance chain.

Please refer any questions about this to me directly or to the aforementioned email address.
Thanks

ieff

Ja? 

National Center for Health Statistics

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Public Affairs Officer

Acting Associate Director for Communications Science
301-458-4800