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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
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[CITE: 42USC283b]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
              SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES
 
                  Part A--National Institutes of Health
 
Sec. 283b. Office of Research on Minority Health


(a) Establishment

    There is established within the Office of the Director of NIH an 
office to be known as the Office of Research on Minority Health (in this 
section referred to as the ``Office''). The Office shall be headed by a 
director, who shall be appointed by the Director of NIH.

(b) Purpose

    The Director of the Office shall--
        (1) identify projects of research on minority health that should 
    be conducted or supported by the national research institutes;
        (2) identify multidisciplinary research relating to research on 
    minority health that should be so conducted or supported;
        (3) promote coordination and collaboration among entities 
    conducting research identified under paragraph (1) or (2);
        (4) encourage the conduct of such research by entities receiving 
    funds from the national research institutes;
        (5) recommend an agenda for conducting and supporting such 
    research;
        (6) promote the sufficient allocation of the resources of the 
    national research institutes for conducting and supporting such 
    research; and
        (7) assist in the administration of section 289a-2 of this title 
    with respect to the inclusion of members of minority groups as 
    subjects in clinical research.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, Sec. 404, as added Pub. L. 103-43, 
title I, Sec. 151, June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 139.)
