42 U.S.C. § 300u — General authority of Secretary

(a) Development, support, and implementation of programs, activities, etc. The Secretary must: (1) set national goals and a strategy for health information and health promotion, preventive health services, and education about using health care appropriately; (2) study what resources are needed and available to meet those goals, and recommend education and quality-assurance policies for the workforce that analysis identifies; (3) run programs and activities to (A) build health education into society, especially into education and health care generally, (B) get more people applying health knowledge, skills, and habits in daily life, and (C) set up ongoing ways to explore, develop, test, and evaluate new health-promotion ideas; (4) fund and run research and demonstrations on health information, health promotion, preventive services, and health-care-use education; (5) fund and run training in these same areas, including training people to run programs in them; (6) fund and run effective, efficient programs in these areas, through better planning, tested models, and evaluating results; (7)(A) develop model programs letting public-sector employers and small-business employers (as defined in section 632 of title 15) help their employees adopt healthy behaviors and avoid unhealthy ones, (B) give technical assistance to public and private employers setting up such programs — including larger private employers using their own program design, not the Secretary's model — and (C) prioritize small businesses when giving that technical assistance; (8) encourage other people and organizations to share information and cooperate on research, demonstration, and training in these areas; (9) give technical assistance for the programs described in paragraph (8); (10) use any other available authority for these programs, coordinated with programs run under this subchapter; and (11) create an Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion inside the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, which must (A) coordinate every Department activity relating to disease prevention, health promotion, preventive services, and health-use education; (B) coordinate those activities with similar private-sector work; (C) run a national information clearinghouse to help people exchange and access information on health information, health promotion (including information about insurance coverage models and standards for preventive services), and health-use education, and to help analyze related issues; and (D) support projects, do research, and share information on preventive medicine, health promotion, and physical fitness and sports medicine. The Secretary must appoint a Director to run that Office, and must carry out this subchapter working with health care providers, educators, voluntary groups, businesses, and state and local health agencies, to encourage spreading health information and promotion activities. (b) Authorization of appropriations. Congress authorized $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1992 to carry out this section and sections 300u–1 through 300u–4, plus whatever amount is necessary for fiscal years 1993 through 2002. (c) Application; submission and approval as prerequisite; form and content. No grant or contract under this subchapter can happen unless an application has been submitted to and approved by the Secretary, in whatever form and manner, and with whatever information, the Secretary requires. Contracts under this subchapter don't have to follow the usual procurement rules in section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31, or section 6101 of title 41.