§283p — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

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The Director of the National Institutes of Health must encourage work to improve research on the health of sexual and gender minority populations. This means helping recruit and report on their participation in NIH-funded clinical studies, helping create valid and reliable research methods for these groups, and fixing related methodological problems.

Title 42, §283p

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The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall, as appropriate, encourage efforts to improve research related to the health of sexual and gender minority populations, including by—

(1)facilitating increased participation of sexual and gender minority populations in clinical research supported by the National Institutes of Health, and reporting on such participation, as applicable;

(2)facilitating the development of valid and reliable methods for research relevant to sexual and gender minority populations; and

(3)addressing methodological challenges.

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Reporting Pub. L. 114–255, div. A, title II, § 2038(e), Dec. 13, 2016, 130 Stat. 1065, provided that: “(1) In general.—The Secretary, in collaboration with the Director of the National Institutes of Health, shall as appropriate—“(A) continue to support research for the development of appropriate measures related to reporting health information about sexual and gender minority populations; and “(B) not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act [Dec. 13, 2016], disseminate and make public such measures. “(2) National academy of medicine recommendations.—In developing the measures described in paragraph (1)(A), the Secretary shall take into account recommendations made by the National Academy of Medicine.”

§283p Population focused research

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Title 42, §283p

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