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§295d Health Administration Traineeships and Special Projects

Title 42 › Chapter 6A— PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter V— HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION › Part E— Health Professions and Public Health Workforce › Subpart 2— public health workforce › § 295d

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary can give grants to state or local governments with preventive medical or dental public health residency programs, and to public or nonprofit schools (including graduate social work or business schools with health management programs) that run certain health administration training programs. The covered programs must be accredited in health administration, hospital administration, or health policy analysis and planning by a body approved by the Secretary of Education and must meet quality rules the Secretary of Health and Human Services sets. When awarding grants, the Secretary must favor applicants who meet several conditions, such as having at least 25 percent of their graduates working full time in medically underserved areas, recruiting students from those areas, partnering with local public or nonprofit health providers for training, and stressing jobs in public or nonprofit organizations. Grants for traineeships must pay tuition and fees and can include stipends and allowances (like travel, living, and dependency pay). Applicants for traineeship grants must promise to give priority to students committed to public or nonprofit work in the relevant fields.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §295d

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(a)The Secretary may make grants to State or local governments (that have in effect preventive medical and dental public health residency programs) or public or nonprofit private educational entities (including graduate schools of social work and business schools that have health management programs) that offer a program described in subsection (b)—
(1)to provide traineeships for students enrolled in such a program; and
(2)to assist accredited programs health administration in the development or improvement of programs to prepare students for employment with public or nonprofit private entities.
(b)The program referred to in subsection (a) is an accredited program in health administration, hospital administration, or health policy analysis and planning, which program is accredited by a body or bodies approved for such purpose by the Secretary of Education and which meets such other quality standards as the Secretary of Health and Human Services by regulation may prescribe.
(c)In making grants under subsection (a), the Secretary shall give preference to qualified applicants that meet the following conditions:
(1)Not less than 25 percent of the graduates of the applicant are engaged in full-time practice settings in medically underserved communities.
(2)The applicant recruits and admits students from medically underserved communities.
(3)For the purpose of training students, the applicant has established relationships with public and nonprofit providers of health care in the community involved.
(4)In training students, the applicant emphasizes employment with public or nonprofit private entities.
(d)(1)Traineeships awarded under grants made under subsection (a) shall provide for tuition and fees and such stipends and allowances (including travel and subsistence expenses and dependency allowances) for the trainees as the Secretary may deem necessary.
(2)Each entity applying for a grant under subsection (a) for traineeships shall assure to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the entity will give priority to awarding the traineeships to students who demonstrate a commitment to employment with public or nonprofit private entities in the fields with respect to which the traineeships are awarded.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 295d, act
July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, § 765, as added Dec. 25, 1970, Pub. L. 91–696, § 101, 84 Stat. 2080–3; amended Oct. 17, 1979, Pub. L. 96–88, title III, § 301(a)(1), title V, § 507, 93 Stat. 677, 692, related to requisites for approval of grants, establishment of separate medical school departments of family medicine, establishment of special hospital programs of family medicine, and supplementation of non-Federal funds, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–129, title II, § 220(c), Oct. 22, 1985, 99 Stat. 544. Another prior section 295d, act
July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, § 765, as added Oct. 31, 1963, Pub. L. 88–164, title I, § 101, 77 Stat. 284, related to noninterference with administration of institutions respecting grants for

Construction

of mental retardation facilities, prior to the general amendment of former part D of this subchapter by section 101 of Pub. L. 91–696. Prior section 295d–1 and 295d–2 were repealed by Pub. L. 99–129, title II, § 220(c), Oct. 22, 1985, 99 Stat. 544. section 295d–1, act
July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, § 766, as added Dec. 25, 1970, Pub. L. 91–696, § 101, 84 Stat. 2080–4, related to establishment and funding of planning and developmental grants. Another prior section 295d–1, act
July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, § 766, as added Oct. 31, 1963, Pub. L. 88–164, title I, § 101, 77 Stat. 284, related to definitions in connection with grants for

Construction

of mental retardation research facilities, prior to the general amendment of former part D of this subchapter by section 101 of Pub. L. 91–696. section 295d–2, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, § 767, as added Dec. 25, 1970, Pub. L. 91–696, § 101, 84 Stat. 2080–4, established Advisory Council on Family Medicine and provided for its composition, term and compensation of its members, and its duties and functions.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 295d

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

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