HHS Seeks Comments on Cultural Health Website Data Collection Extension
Published Date: 5/13/2026
Notice
Summary
The Office of Minority Health wants to keep collecting info through its Think Cultural Health website, which helps health pros learn about cultural and language differences. They’re asking the public to share thoughts by June 12, 2026, to make sure the process is easy and useful. This is just an extension—no new costs or big changes, just keeping the helpful tools going strong!
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Think Cultural Health Continues Offering CE
The Office of Minority Health is extending the currently approved information collection (OMB No. 0990-0407) so the Think Cultural Health website can keep offering e-learning programs that let health and health care professionals register and earn continuing education credits. This is an extension of a currently approved collection and supports keeping the training and resources available to users.
Time Burden on Health Professionals
Health and health care professionals who use the Think Cultural Health site face small time costs to participate: registration and each course/unit evaluation are estimated at 0.05 hours (about 3 minutes) for 118,352 respondents resulting in 5,918 hours each; follow-up surveys are estimated at 0.17 hours for 4,208 respondents (701 hours); focus groups are 2 hours for 15 participants (30 hours); and key informant interviews are 1 hour for 13 participants (13 hours). The total estimated annualized burden is 12,580 hours.
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