42 U.S.C. § 296e–1: Grants for health…

Summary

The Secretary, through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Administrator, may give grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to eligible groups to create, test, and share research, demonstration projects, and sample training programs. These projects cover topics like cultural competency, prevention, public health skills, reducing health disparities, and training to work with people with disabilities for health worker schools and continuing education. The Secretary must work with the groups named in section 293e(b) and follow the same rules for grants, coordination, sharing, and review as set out in section 293e (including subsection (c)). Money to run this program is authorized as needed for fiscal years 2010 through 2015.

Title 42, §296e–1

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(a)Cultural competency, prevention, and public health and individuals with disability grants

The Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, may make awards of grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to eligible entities for the development, evaluation, and dissemination of research, demonstration projects, and model curricula for cultural competency, prevention, public health proficiency, reducing health disparities, and aptitude for working with individuals with disabilities training for use in health professions schools and continuing education programs, and for other purposes determined as appropriate by the Secretary. Grants under this section shall be the same as provided in section 293e of this title.

(b)Collaboration

In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary shall collaborate with the entities described in section 293e(b) of this title. The Secretary shall coordinate with curricula and research and demonstration projects developed under such section 293e.

(c)Dissemination

Model curricula developed under this section shall be disseminated and evaluated in the same manner as model curricula developed under section 293e of this title, as described in subsection (c) of such section.

(d)Authorization of appropriations

There are to be appropriated to carry out this section such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2010 through 2015.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 807 of act

July 1, 1944, was renumbered section 808 by Pub. L. 106–525 and is classified to section 296f of this title. Another prior section 807 of act

July 1, 1944, was renumbered section 811 and classified to section 296f of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–92, § 9(a)(1), Aug. 16, 1985, 99 Stat. 400.

Amendments

2010—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 111–148, § 5307(b)(1), in heading, substituted “Cultural competency, prevention, and public health and individuals with disability grants” for “Grants for health professions education in health disparities and cultural competency” and, in text, substituted “for the development, evaluation, and dissemination of research, demonstration projects, and model curricula for cultural competency, prevention, public health proficiency, reducing health disparities, and aptitude for working with individuals with disabilities training for use in health professions schools and continuing education programs, and for other purposes determined as appropriate by the Secretary” for “for the purpose of carrying out research and demonstration projects (including research and demonstration projects for continuing health professions education) for training and education for the reduction of disparities in health care outcomes and the provision of culturally competent health care”. Subsecs. (b) to (d). Pub. L. 111–148, § 5307(b)(2)–(4), added subsecs. (b) and (c), redesignated former subsec. (b) as (d), and, in subsec. (d), substituted “this section” for “subsection (a) of this section” and “2010 through 2015” for “2001 through 2004”.

§296e–1 Grants for Health Professions Education