Title 42The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§295c Preventive medicine and public health training grant program

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER V— - HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION › Part Part E— - Health Professions and Public Health Workforce › Subpart subpart 2— - public health workforce › § 295c

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary, through HRSA and with CDC input, must give grants or contracts to train graduate medical residents in preventive medicine. Eligible recipients are accredited public health or medical schools, accredited nonprofit hospitals, state, local, or tribal health departments, or a consortium of two or more of these. Grant money can fund accredited residency or internship programs and curricula, cover practicum costs, and build or improve academic units or clinical teaching in preventive medicine. The Secretary must send Congress a report on the program every year.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §295c

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(a)The Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration and in consultation with the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall award grants to, or enter into contracts with, eligible entities to provide training to graduate medical residents in preventive medicine specialties.
(b)To be eligible for a grant or contract under subsection (a), an entity shall be—
(1)an accredited school of public health or school of medicine or osteopathic medicine;
(2)an accredited public or private nonprofit hospital;
(3)a State, local, or tribal health department; or
(4)a consortium of 2 or more entities described in paragraphs (1) through (3).
(c)Amounts received under a grant or contract under this section shall be used to—
(1)plan, develop (including the development of curricula), operate, or participate in an accredited residency or internship program in preventive medicine or public health;
(2)defray the costs of practicum experiences, as required in such a program; and
(3)establish, maintain, or improve—
(A)academic administrative units (including departments, divisions, or other appropriate units) in preventive medicine and public health; or
(B)programs that improve clinical teaching in preventive medicine and public health.
(d)The Secretary shall submit to the Congress an annual report on the program carried out under this section.

Legislative History

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 295c, act
July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, § 764, as added Dec. 25, 1970, Pub. L. 91–696, § 101, 84 Stat. 2080–2; amended Oct. 17, 1979, Pub. L. 96–88, title III, § 301(a)(1), title V, § 507, 93 Stat. 677, 692, established requirements of eligibility for grants, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–129, title II, § 220(c), Oct. 22, 1985, 99 Stat. 544. Another prior section 295c, act
July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, § 764, as added Oct. 31, 1963, Pub. L. 88–164, title I, § 101, 77 Stat. 283, related to recovery of expenditures under certain conditions respecting grants for

Construction

of mental retardation facilities, prior to the general amendment of former part D of this subchapter by section 101 of Pub. L. 91–696.

Amendments

2010—Pub. L. 111–148 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section related to grants and contracts for residency training programs in preventive medicine and dental public health and provision of financial assistance to residency trainees.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 295c

Title 42The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73