42 U.S.C. § 295c — Preventive medicine and public health training grant program

(a) Grants Acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, and working with the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Secretary must give grants or contracts to eligible groups to train graduate medical residents in preventive medicine specialties. (b) Eligibility A group qualifies if it is (1) an accredited school of public health, medicine, or osteopathic medicine; (2) an accredited public or private nonprofit hospital; (3) a state, local, or tribal health department; or (4) a team of two or more of those groups. (c) Use of funds Grant or contract money must be used to (1) plan, develop — including building curricula — operate, or take part in an accredited residency or internship program in preventive medicine or public health; (2) pay for required practicum experiences in such a program; and (3) build, maintain, or improve (A) academic departments or divisions in preventive medicine and public health, or (B) programs that improve clinical teaching in those fields. (d) Report The Secretary must send Congress an annual report on this program.