§290a Designation of representatives and alternates; compensation; loyalty checkup

Summary

The President must appoint, from time to time, up to three United States delegates to attend one or more specific sessions of the World Health Assembly and may name as many alternates as allowed by the Assembly’s rules. One delegate must be picked as the chief delegate. When the U.S. can name someone to the Organization’s Executive Board under article 24, the President must pick a representative with the Senate’s approval and may name up to one alternate. That representative must have graduated from a recognized medical school and have at least three years of active work as a doctor or surgeon. The representative and any alternate can be paid at one of the rates in sections 3962 or 3963 for the times the President sets, but Members of Congress or U.S. officers so named cannot be paid. No one may serve until the Director of the Office of Personnel Management has done a loyalty and security check.