§295b — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary can give grants to accredited schools of public health and to other public or nonprofit institutions that offer graduate or specialized public health training. These grants help those schools provide traineeships to students studying in health fields with severe worker shortages, including epidemiology, environmental health, biostatistics, toxicology, nutrition, and maternal and child health. The Secretary decides how much each grant will be. Traineeships must pay tuition and fees and can include stipends and allowances, such as travel, living costs, and dependency payments, as the Secretary finds necessary.

Title 42, §295b

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(a)The Secretary may make grants to accredited schools of public health, and to other public or nonprofit private institutions accredited for the provision of graduate or specialized training in public health, for the purpose of assisting such schools and institutions in providing traineeships to individuals described in subsection (b)(3).

(b)(1)The amount of any grant under this section shall be determined by the Secretary.

(2)Traineeships awarded under grants made under subsection (a) shall provide for tuition and fees and such stipends and allowances (including travel and subsistence expenses and dependency allowances) for the trainees as the Secretary may deem necessary.

(3)The individuals referred to in subsection (a) are individuals who are pursuing a course of study in a health professions field in which there is a severe shortage of health professionals (which fields include the fields of epidemiology, environmental health, biostatistics, toxicology, nutrition, and maternal and child health).

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 295b, act

July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, § 763, as added Dec. 25, 1970, Pub. L. 91–696, § 101, 84 Stat. 2080–2, authorized Secretary to make grants and to set limitations and conditions on grants, required applications for grants, limited use of grant funds, set forth method of payment of grants, and provided for protection of financial interests of the United States, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–129, title II, § 220(c), Oct. 22, 1985, 99 Stat. 544. Another prior section 295b, act

July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, § 763, as added Oct. 31, 1963, Pub. L. 88–164, title I, § 101, 77 Stat. 283, related to amount of grants for

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of mental retardation facilities, including maximum payments, advances or reimbursement, installments, conditions, and nonduplication of grants, prior to the general amendment of former part D of this subchapter by section 101 of Pub. L. 91–696. A prior section 767 of act

July 1, 1944, was classified to section 295e–1 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–129. Another prior section 767 of act

July 1, 1944, was classified to section 295d–2 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–129.

§295b Public health traineeships