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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
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[CITE: 42USC295]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
               SUBCHAPTER V--HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION
 
         Part E--Health Professions and Public Health Workforce
 
                   subpart 2--public health workforce
 
Sec. 295. General provisions


(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) 
of this section 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; or
        (8) 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.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, Sec. 765, as added Pub. L. 105-392, 
title I, Sec. 105, Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3553.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 295, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, Sec. 781, 
as added Pub. L. 102-408, title I, Sec. 102, Oct. 13, 1992, 106 Stat. 
2055; amended Pub. L. 105-12, Sec. 12(b), Apr. 30, 1997, 111 Stat. 29, 
authorized grants and contracts for research on certain health 
professions issues, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 105-392, title I, 
Sec. 106(a)(1), Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3557.
    Another prior section 295, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, 
Sec. 761, as added Dec. 25, 1970, Pub. L. 91-696, Sec. 101, 84 Stat. 
2080-1; amended Oct. 17, 1979, Pub. L. 96-88, title III, Sec. 301(a)(1), 
title V, Sec. 507, 93 Stat. 677, 692, provided Congressional declaration 
of purpose for former part D of this subchapter, prior to repeal by Pub. 
L. 99-129, title II, Sec. 220(c), Oct. 22, 1985, 99 Stat. 544.
    Another prior section 295, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, 
Sec. 761, as added Oct. 31, 1963, Pub. L. 88-164, title I, Sec. 101, 77 
Stat. 282, related to authorization of appropriations respecting grants 
for construction of mental retardation facilities, prior to the general 
amendment of former part D of this subchapter by section 101 of Pub. L. 
91-696.
    A prior section 765 of act July 1, 1944, was classified to section 
294c of this title prior to the general amendment of part D of this 
subchapter by Pub. L. 105-392.
    Another prior section 765 of act July 1, 1944, was classified to 
section 295d of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99-129.
    Another prior section 765 of act July 1, 1944, was classified to 
section 295d of this title prior to the general amendment of part D of 
this subchapter by Pub. L. 91-696.
