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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73not60

§299b–24a Activities Regarding Women’s Health

Title 42 › Chapter 6A— PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter VII— AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY › Part C— Patient Safety Improvement › § 299b–24a

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates an Office of Women’s Health and Gender-Based Research inside the Office of the Director. A director will be picked by the Director of Healthcare and Research Quality. The director must tell the Director what the agency is doing about women’s health across ages, biology, and social groups, including work on evidence reviews, clinical guidance, patient outcomes, care delivery, quality, and access. The director must set short- and long-term research goals, pick women’s health projects for the agency, work with other agency offices, consult health professionals and groups, and serve on the HHS Coordinating Committee on Women’s Health. Money may be appropriated as needed for fiscal years 2010 through 2014.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §299b–24a

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)There is established within the Office of the Director, an Office of Women’s Health and Gender-Based Research (referred to in this section as the “Office”). The Office shall be headed by a director who shall be appointed by the Director of Healthcare and Research Quality.
(b)The official designated under subsection (a) shall—
(1)report to the Director on the current Agency level of activity regarding women’s health, across, where appropriate, age, biological, and sociocultural contexts, in all aspects of Agency work, including the development of evidence reports and clinical practice protocols and the conduct of research into patient outcomes, delivery of health care services, quality of care, and access to health care;
(2)establish short-range and long-range goals and objectives within the Agency for research important to women’s health and, as relevant and appropriate, coordinate with other appropriate offices on activities within the Agency that relate to health services and medical effectiveness research, for issues of particular concern to women;
(3)identify projects in women’s health that should be conducted or supported by the Agency;
(4)consult with health professionals, nongovernmental organizations, consumer organizations, women’s health professionals, and other individuals and groups, as appropriate, on Agency policy with regard to women; and
(5)serve as a member of the Department of Health and Human Services Coordinating Committee on Women’s Health (established under section 237a(b)(4) of this title).
(c)For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2010 through 2014.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 925 of act
July 1, 1944, was renumbered section 926 and is classified to section 299b–25 of this title. Another prior section 925 of act
July 1, 1944, was renumbered section 945 and is classified to section 299c–4 of this title. Another prior section 925 of act
July 1, 1944, was classified to section 299c–4 of this title prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 106–129.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 299b–24a

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60