Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§300hh–32 Enhanced support to assist health departments in addressing vector-borne diseases

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XXVI— - NATIONAL ALL-HAZARDS PREPAREDNESS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES › Part Part C— - Strengthening Public Health Surveillance Systems › § 300hh–32

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the CDC Director, can make partnerships with State, local, and Tribal health departments in places at high risk for vector-borne diseases. These partnerships must be based on an application that explains how the health department will build or expand programs. The plan must cover training and workforce development, steps to better detect, report, prevent, and respond to outbreaks, coordination with other agencies and organizations, and how the program’s effectiveness will be measured. Congress authorized $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025 to support this work.

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Title 42, §300hh–32

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(a)The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may enter into cooperative agreements with health departments of States, political subdivisions of States, and Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations in areas at high risk of vector-borne diseases in order to increase capacity to identify, report, prevent, and respond to such diseases and related outbreaks.

(b)To be eligible to enter into a cooperative agreement under this section, an entity described in subsection (a) shall prepare and submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require, including a plan that describes—

(1)how the applicant proposes to develop or expand programs to address vector-borne disease risks, including through—

(A)related training and workforce development;

(B)programmatic efforts to improve capacity to identify, report, prevent, and respond to such disease and related outbreaks; and

(C)other relevant activities identified by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as appropriate;

(2)the manner in which the applicant will coordinate with other Federal, Tribal, and State agencies and programs, as applicable, related to vector-borne diseases, as well as other relevant public and private organizations or agencies; and

(3)the manner in which the applicant will evaluate the effectiveness of any program carried out under the cooperative agreement.

(c)For the purposes of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025.

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42 U.S.C. § 300hh–32

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73