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42 U.S.C. § 295 — General provisions
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**(a) In general** The Secretary may award grants or contracts to eligible entities to increase the number of individuals in the public health workforce, to enhance the quality of such workforce, and to enhance the ability of the workforce to meet national, State, and local health care needs.
**(b) Eligibility** To be eligible to receive a grant or contract under subsection (a) an entity shall—
(1) be—
(A) a health professions school, including an accredited school or program of public health, health administration, preventive medicine, or dental public health or a school providing health management programs;
(B) an academic health center;
(C) a State or local government; or
(D) any other appropriate public or private nonprofit entity; and
(2) prepare and submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require.
**(c) Preference** In awarding grants or contracts under this section the Secretary may grant a preference to entities—
(1) serving individuals who are from disadvantaged backgrounds (including underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities); and
(2) graduating large proportions of individuals who serve in underserved communities.
**(d) Activities** Amounts provided under a grant or contract awarded under this section may be used for—
(1) the costs of planning, developing, or operating demonstration training programs;
(2) faculty development;
(3) trainee support;
(4) technical assistance;
(5) to meet the costs of projects—
(A) to plan and develop new residency training programs and to maintain or improve existing residency training programs in preventive medicine and dental public health, that have available full-time faculty members with training and experience in
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**(a) In general** The Secretary may award grants or contracts to eligible entities to increase the number of individuals in the public health workforce, to enhance the quality of such workforce, and to enhance the ability of the workforce to meet national, State, and local health care needs.
**(b) Eligibility** To be eligible to receive a grant or contract under subsection (a) an entity shall—
(1) be—
(A) a health professions school, including an accredited school or program of public health, health administration, preventive medicine, or dental public health or a school providing health management programs;
(B) an academic health center;
(C) a State or local government; or
(D) any other appropriate public or private nonprofit entity; and
(2) prepare and submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require.
**(c) Preference** In awarding grants or contracts under this section the Secretary may grant a preference to entities—
(1) serving individuals who are from disadvantaged backgrounds (including underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities); and
(2) graduating large proportions of individuals who serve in underserved communities.
**(d) Activities** Amounts provided under a grant or contract awarded under this section may be used for—
(1) the costs of planning, developing, or operating demonstration training programs;
(2) faculty development;
(3) trainee support;
(4) technical assistance;
(5) to meet the costs of projects—
(A) to plan and develop new residency training programs and to maintain or improve existing residency training programs in preventive medicine and dental public health, that have available full-time faculty members with training and experience in the fields of preventive medicine and dental public health; and
(B) to provide financial assistance to residency trainees enrolled in such programs;
(6) the retraining of existing public health workers as well as for increasing the supply of new practitioners to address priority public health, preventive medicine, public health dentistry, and health administration needs;
(7) preparing public health professionals for employment at the State and community levels;
(8) public health workforce loan repayment programs; or
(9) other activities that may produce outcomes that are consistent with the purposes of this section.
**(e) Traineeships**
(1) **In general** — With respect to amounts used under this section for the training of health professionals, such training programs shall be designed to—
(A) make public health education more accessible to the public and private health workforce;
(B) increase the relevance of public health academic preparation to public health practice in the future;
(C) provide education or training for students from traditional on-campus programs in practice-based sites; or
(D) develop educational methods and distance-based approaches or technology that address adult learning requirements and increase knowledge and skills related to community-based cultural diversity in public health education.
(2) **Severe shortage disciplines** — Amounts provided under grants or contracts under this section may be used for the operation of programs designed to award traineeships to students in accredited schools of public health who enter educational programs in fields where there is a severe shortage of public health professionals, including epidemiology, biostatistics, environmental health, toxicology, public health nursing, nutrition, preventive medicine, maternal and child health, and behavioral and mental health professions.
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**(a) In general** 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) Relevant programs** 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) Preference in making grants** 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) Certain provisions regarding traineeships**
(1) **Use of grant** — Traineeships awar
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**(a) Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program**
(1) **In general** — The Secretary shall award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements under this subsection to entities described in paragraph (1), (3), or (4) of [section 295p of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section295p&num=0&edition=prelim), [section 296(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section296/2&num=0&edition=prelim), or [section 298(d) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section298/d&num=0&edition=prelim), or other health professions schools or programs approved by the Secretary, for the establishment or operation of Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Programs that meet the requirements of paragraph (2).
(2) **Requirements**
(A) *In general* — A Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program receiving an award under this section shall support the training of health professionals in geriatrics, including traineeships or fellowships. Such programs shall emphasize, as appropriate, patient and family engagement, integration of geriatrics with primary care and other appropriate specialties, and collaboration with community partners to address gaps in health care for older adults.
(B) *Activities* — Activities conducted by a program under this section may include the following:
(i) Clinical training on providing integrated geriatrics and primary care delivery services.
(ii) Interprofessional training to practitioners from multiple disciplines and specialties, including training on the provision of care to older adults.
(iii) Establishing or maintaining training-related community-based programs for older adults and caregivers to improve health outcom
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**(a) Findings** Congress finds the following:
(1) The Federal Government provides financial support for the provision of and payment for health care services, as well as for advocacy activities to protect the rights of individuals.
(2) Assisted suicide, euthanasia, and mercy killing have been criminal offenses throughout the United States and, under current law, it would be unlawful to provide services in support of such illegal activities.
(3) Because of recent legal developments, it may become lawful in areas of the United States to furnish services in support of such activities.
(4) Congress is not providing Federal financial assistance in support of assisted suicide, euthanasia, and mercy killing and intends that Federal funds not be used to promote such activities.
**(b) Purpose** It is the principal purpose of this chapter to continue current Federal policy by providing explicitly that Federal funds may not be used to pay for items and services (including assistance) the purpose of which is to cause (or assist in causing) the suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing of any individual.
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**(a) Purpose** It is the purpose of this section to—
(1) provide for the development of information describing the health professions workforce and the analysis of workforce related issues; and
(2) provide necessary information for decision-making regarding future directions in health professions and nursing programs in response to societal and professional needs.
**(b) National Center for Health Care Workforce Analysis**
(1) **Establishment** — The Secretary shall establish the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis (referred to in this section as the “National Center”).
(2) **Purposes** — The National Center, in coordination to the extent practicable with the National Health Care Workforce Commission (established in [section 294q of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section294q&num=0&edition=prelim)), and relevant regional and State centers and agencies, shall—
(A) provide for the development of information describing and analyzing the health care workforce and workforce related issues;
(B) carry out the activities under [section 295k(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section295k/a&num=0&edition=prelim);
(C) annually evaluate programs under this subchapter;
(D) develop and publish performance measures and benchmarks for programs under this subchapter; and
(E) establish, maintain, and publicize a national Internet registry of each grant awarded under this subchapter and a database to collect data from longitudinal evaluations (as described in subsection (d)(2)) on performance measures (as developed under sections 293l(d)(3), 294f(d)(3), and 294o(a)(3) of this title).
(3) **Collaboration and data sharing**
(A) *In general* — The National Ce
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 295
related to grants and other assistance for students
from disadvantaged backgrounds. See section 293a of
this title.
Section 294cc, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, § 761,
as added Nov. 6, 1990, Pub. L. 101–527, § 6, 104 Stat. 2325,
related to a loan repayment program regarding service
on faculties of certain health professions schools. See
section 293b of this title.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
DISSEMINATION OF BEST PRACTICES
Pub. L. 117–105, § 2, Mar. 18, 2022, 136 Stat. 1118, pro-
vided that: ‘‘Not later than 2 years after the date of the
enactment of this Act [Mar. 18, 2022], the Secretary of
Health and Human Services (referred to in this Act [see
Short Title of 2022 Amendment note set out under sec-
tion 201 of this title] as the ‘Secretary’) shall identify
and disseminate evidence-based or evidence-informed
best practices for preventing suicide and improving
mental health and resiliency among health care profes-
sionals, and for training health care professionals in
appropriate strategies to promote their mental health.
Such best practices shall include recommendations re-
lated to preventing suicide and improving mental
health and resiliency among health care professionals.’’
EDUCATION
AND
AWARENESS
INITIATIVE
ENCOURAGING
USE
OF MENTAL HEALTH
AND SUBSTANCE USE DIS-
ORDER SERVICES BY HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS
Pub. L. 117–105, § 3, Mar. 18, 2022, 136 Stat. 1118, pro-
vided that:
‘‘(a) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary [of Health and
Human Services], in consultation with relevant stake-
holders, including medical professional associations,
shall establish a national evidence-based or evidence-
informed education and awareness initiative—
‘‘(1) to encourage health care professional
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