Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§300cc–40 Establishment of Office

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XXI— - RESEARCH WITH RESPECT TO ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME › Part Part D— - Office of AIDS Research › Subpart subpart i— - interagency coordination of activities › § 300cc–40

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates an Office of AIDS Research at the National Institutes of Health. A director will lead the office and be appointed by the Secretary. The director must plan, coordinate, and review all NIH AIDS research and related activities, and must check each agency’s AIDS work regularly. When making or updating the plan called for in section 300cc–40c, the director must work with NIH agency leaders, the agencies’ advisory councils, and the advisory council under section 300cc–40b. The director is the main federal official for NIH AIDS research, represents NIH on federal task forces, and keeps other health and government agencies informed so new research and treatment information reaches communities and health care providers quickly.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §300cc–40

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(a)There is established within the National Institutes of Health an office to be known as the Office of AIDS Research. The Office shall be headed by a director, who shall be appointed by the Secretary.

(b)(1)With respect to acquired immune deficiency syndrome, the Director of the Office shall plan, coordinate, and evaluate research and other activities conducted or supported by the agencies of the National Institutes of Health. In carrying out the preceding sentence, the Director of the Office shall evaluate the AIDS activities of each of such agencies and shall provide for the periodic reevaluation of such activities.

(2)The Director of the Office shall carry out this subpart (including developing and revising the plan required in section 300cc–40c of this title) in consultation with the heads of the agencies of the National Institutes of Health, with the advisory councils of the agencies, and with the advisory council established under section 300cc–40b of this title.

(3)The Director of the Office shall act as the primary Federal official with responsibility for overseeing all AIDS research conducted or supported by the National Institutes of Health, and

(A)shall serve to represent the National Institutes of Health AIDS Research Program at all relevant Executive branch task forces and committees; and

(B)shall maintain communications with all relevant Public Health Service agencies and with various other departments of the Federal Government, to ensure the timely transmission of information concerning advances in AIDS research and the clinical treatment of acquired immune deficiency syndrome and its related conditions, between these various agencies for dissemination to affected communities and health care providers.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 300cc–40

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73