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§285g–5 Research Centers with Respect to Contraception and Infertility

Title 42 › Chapter 6A— PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter III— NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES › Part C— Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes › Subpart 7— eunice kennedy shriver national institute of child health and human development › § 285g–5

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director of the Institute must, after talking with the Institute’s advisory council, give grants or sign contracts with public or nonprofit groups to set up and run centers that improve birth control and centers that improve diagnosis and treatment of infertility. This can only happen if Congress provides the money. The Director must fund three contraception centers and two infertility centers. Each center must do clinical and applied research, including clinical trials of new or better drugs and devices for men and women (for contraception or for diagnosing and treating infertility). Centers must create training plans, run training for doctors, nurses, scientists, and other health workers, build model continuing education courses, and share findings with professionals and the public. They can pay stipends to trainees and fees to people who take part in clinical trials. The Director must help centers share information. A center must be at one institution or a group of cooperating institutions that meet the Director’s rules. Support can last up to 5 years and can be renewed for additional periods up to 5 years each if a peer review group recommends extension.

Title 42, §285g–5

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(a)The Director of the Institute, after consultation with the advisory council for the Institute, shall make grants to, or enter into contracts with, public or nonprofit private entities for the development and operation of centers to conduct activities for the purpose of improving methods of contraception and centers to conduct activities for the purpose of improving methods of diagnosis and treatment of infertility.

(b)In carrying out subsection (a), the Director of the Institute shall, subject to the extent of amounts made available in appropriations Acts, provide for the establishment of three centers with respect to contraception and for two centers with respect to infertility.

(c)(1)Each center assisted under this section shall, in carrying out the purpose of the center involved—

(A)conduct clinical and other applied research, including—

(i)for centers with respect to contraception, clinical trials of new or improved drugs and devices for use by males and females (including barrier methods); and

(ii)for centers with respect to infertility, clinical trials of new or improved drugs and devices for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility in males and females;

(B)develop protocols for training physicians, scientists, nurses, and other health and allied health professionals;

(C)conduct training programs for such individuals;

(D)develop model continuing education programs for such professionals; and

(E)disseminate information to such professionals and the public.

(2)A center may use funds provided under subsection (a) to provide stipends for health and allied health professionals enrolled in programs described in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1), and to provide fees to individuals serving as subjects in clinical trials conducted under such paragraph.

(d)The Director of the Institute shall, as appropriate, provide for the coordination of information among the centers assisted under this section.

(e)Each center assisted under subsection (a) shall use the facilities of a single institution, or be formed from a consortium of cooperating institutions, meeting such requirements as may be prescribed by the Director of the Institute.

(f)Support of a center under subsection (a) may be for a period not exceeding 5 years. Such period may be extended for one or more additional periods not exceeding 5 years if the operations of such center have been reviewed by an appropriate technical and scientific peer review group established by the Director and if such group has recommended to the Director that such period should be extended.

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Editorial Notes

Amendments

2007—Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 109–482 struck out subsec. (g) which read as follows: “For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1994, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1995 and 1996.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2007 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 109–482 applicable only with respect to amounts appropriated for fiscal year 2007 or subsequent fiscal years, see section 109 of Pub. L. 109–482, set out as a note under section 281 of this title.