PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Secretary must give grants or contracts to academic health centers so they can start and run centers that do research and demonstration projects about health promotion and disease prevention. These centers must study ways to spot health risks and try out new public health methods to lower chronic disease. Each center must be housed in an academic health center with a team of different experts and training programs, core faculty in fields like epidemiology and biostatistics, a disease-prevention curriculum, residency training in public health or preventive medicine, and any other qualifications the Secretary requires. Centers must do research (including past and long-term studies), run community-focused prevention projects, and evaluate those projects. Each evaluation plan must be set before the project begins. The Secretary must place centers fairly across regions and in areas with populations where prevention can help most. The Secretary, through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and after consulting the Director of the National Institutes of Health, must use mostly outside experts to peer-review applications. An “academic health center” means a school of medicine, a school of osteopathy, or a school of public health. Funding authorized is $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1992 and whatever sums are needed for fiscal years 1993 through 2003.

Title 42, §300u–5

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

(a)Establishment; grants; contracts; research and demonstration projects

The Secretary shall make grants or enter into contracts with academic health centers for the establishment, maintenance, and operation of centers for research and demonstration with respect to health promotion and disease prevention. Centers established, maintained, or operated under this section shall undertake research and demonstration projects in health promotion, disease prevention, and improved methods of appraising health hazards and risk factors, and shall serve as demonstration sites for the use of new and innovative research in public health techniques to prevent chronic diseases.

(b)Location; types of research and projects

Each center established, maintained, or operated under this section shall—

(1)be located in an academic health center with—

(A)a multidisciplinary faculty with expertise in public health and which has working relationships with relevant groups in such fields as medicine, psychology, nursing, social work, education and business;

(B)graduate training programs relevant to disease prevention;

(C)a core faculty in epidemiology, biostatistics, social sciences, behavioral and environmental health sciences, and health administration;

(D)a demonstrated curriculum in disease prevention;

(E)a capability for residency training in public health or preventive medicine; and

(F)such other qualifications as the Secretary may prescribe;

(2)conduct—

(A)health promotion and disease prevention research, including retrospective studies and longitudinal prospective studies in population groups and communities;

(B)demonstration projects for the delivery of services relating to health promotion and disease prevention to defined population groups using, as appropriate, community outreach and organization techniques and other methods of educating and motivating communities; and

(C)evaluation studies on the efficacy of demonstration projects conducted under subparagraph (B) of this paragraph.

The design of any evaluation study conducted under subparagraph (C) shall be established prior to the commencement of the demonstration project under subparagraph (B) for which the evaluation will be conducted.

(c)Equitable geographic distribution of centers; procedures

(1)In making grants and entering into contracts under this section, the Secretary shall provide for an equitable geographical distribution of centers established, maintained, and operated under this section and for the distribution of such centers among areas containing a wide range of population groups which exhibit incidences of diseases which are most amenable to preventive intervention.

(2)The Secretary, through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and in consultation with the Director of the National Institutes of Health, shall establish procedures for the appropriate peer review of applications for grants and contracts under this section by peer review groups composed principally of non-Federal experts.

(d)“Academic health center” defined

For purposes of this section, the term “academic health center” means a school of medicine, a school of osteopathy, or a school of public health, as such terms are defined in section 292a(4) of this title.

(e)Authorization of appropriations

For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1992, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1993 through 2003.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

section 292a of this title, referred to in subsec. (d), was in the original a reference to section 701 of act

July 1, 1944. section 701 of that Act was omitted in the general revision of subchapter V of this chapter by Pub. L. 102–408, title I, § 102, Oct. 13, 1992, 106 Stat. 1994. Pub. L. 102–408 enacted a new section 701 of act

July 1, 1944, relating to statement of purpose, and a new section 702, relating to scope and duration of loan insurance program, which are classified to section 292 and 292a, respectively, of this title. For provisions relating to definitions, see section 295p of this title.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 300u–5, act

July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XVII, § 1706, as added

June 23, 1976, Pub. L. 94–317, title I, § 102, 90 Stat. 700; amended Nov. 10, 1978, Pub. L. 95–626, title V, § 501, 92 Stat. 3592; Jan. 4, 1983, Pub. L. 97–414, § 8(r), 96 Stat. 2062, related to establishment of the Office of Health Promotion, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 98–551, § 2(c), Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2816.

Amendments

1998—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 105–340 substituted “2003” for “1998”. 1993—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 103–183 substituted “through 1998” for “through 1996”. 1992—Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 102–531, which directed amendment of subsec. (c)(2)(B) by substituting “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” for “Centers for Disease Control”, was executed by making the substitution in subsec. (c)(2) to reflect the probable intent of Congress and the redesignation of subsec. (c)(2)(B) as subsec. (c)(2) by Pub. L. 102–168. See 1991 Amendment note below. 1991—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 102–168, § 102(b), redesignated subpars. (A) and (B) of par. (2) as pars. (1) and (2), respectively, and struck out former par. (1), which read as follows: “During fiscal year 1985, the Secretary shall make grants or enter into contracts for the establishment of three centers under this section. During fiscal year 1986, the Secretary shall make grants and enter into contracts for the establishment of five centers under this section and the maintenance and operation of the three centers established under this section in fiscal year 1985. During fiscal year 1987, the Secretary shall make grants and enter into contracts for the establishment of five centers under this section and the operation and maintenance of the eight centers established under this section in fiscal years 1985 and 1986.” Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 102–168, § 102(a), amended subsec. (e) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (e) read as follows: “To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated $3,000,000 for the fiscal year ending

September 30, 1985, $8,000,000 for the fiscal year ending

September 30, 1986, $13,000,000 for the fiscal year ending

September 30, 1987, $6,000,000 for fiscal year 1989, $8,000,000 for fiscal year 1990, and $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1991.” 1988—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 100–607 struck out “and” after “1986,” and inserted “, $6,000,000 for fiscal year 1989, $8,000,000 for fiscal year 1990, and $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1991” before period at end.

§300u–5 Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention