Gindi, Renee 
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Sent: Friday, September 1, 201?r 9:49 AM

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

Good thing you?re not a reporter anymore! I?d have to clear it through ATL to come home and talk to you. -

From: Lancashire, Jeffrey H. 

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

To: CDC OPHSS NCHS *All 

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 ofthe nature of the inquiry, must be
cleared through CDC's 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

Jeff

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National Center for Health Statistics

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Public Affairs Officer

Acting Associate Director for Communications Science
301-458-4800