Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-102
§247b–8 Fellowship and Training Programs
Title 42 › CHAPTER 6A — PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › SUBCHAPTER II — GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES › Part B — Federal-State Cooperation › § 247b–8
Summary
The Secretary, through the CDC Director, must create fellowships and training to teach epidemiology, surveillance, lab work, and other disease detection and prevention so trainees can work locally, State, national, and international; programs may use appointment or nonappointment hiring.
Full Legal Text
Title 42, §247b–8
The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall establish fellowship and training programs to be conducted by such Centers to train individuals to develop skills in epidemiology, surveillance, laboratory analysis, and other disease detection and prevention methods. Such programs shall be designed to enable health professionals and health personnel trained under such programs to work, after receiving such training, in local, State, national, and international efforts toward the prevention and control of diseases, injuries, and disabilities. Such fellowships and training may be administered through the use of either appointment or nonappointment procedures.
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Effective Date
Pub. L. 105–115, title IV, § 408(b)(2), Nov. 21, 1997, 111 Stat. 2371, provided that: “The amendment made by this subsection [enacting this section] is deemed to have taken effect July 1, 1995.”
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42 U.S.C. § 247b–8
Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102