Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73
§247b–8 Fellowship and training programs
Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES › Part Part B— - Federal-State Cooperation › § 247b–8
Summary
Through the CDC Director, the Secretary must create fellowship and training programs to teach epidemiology, surveillance, lab methods, and disease detection and prevention. These programs must prepare health workers for local, state, national, and international prevention and control efforts and may use appointment or nonappointment procedures.
Full Legal Text
Title 42, §247b–8
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The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall establish fellowship and training programs to be conducted by such Centers to train individuals to develop skills in epidemiology, surveillance, laboratory analysis, and other disease detection and prevention methods. Such programs shall be designed to enable health professionals and health personnel trained under such programs to work, after receiving such training, in local, State, national, and international efforts toward the prevention and control of diseases, injuries, and disabilities. Such fellowships and training may be administered through the use of either appointment or nonappointment procedures.
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Effective Date
Pub. L. 105–115, title IV, § 408(b)(2), Nov. 21, 1997, 111 Stat. 2371, provided that: “The amendment made by this subsection [enacting this section] is deemed to have taken effect July 1, 1995.”
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42 U.S.C. § 247b–8
Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73