42 U.S.C. § 300u–5 — Centers for research and demonstration of health promotion and disease prevention

(a) Establishment; grants; contracts; research and demonstration projects: The Secretary must give grants or contracts to academic health centers, to set up, run, and maintain centers for research and demonstration in health promotion and disease prevention. These centers must research and demonstrate ways to prevent disease, prevent chronic illness, and better measure health hazards and risk factors, and serve as test sites for new public health techniques. (b) Location; types of research and projects: Each center must: (1) be located at an academic health center with (A) a multidisciplinary faculty in public health that works with fields like medicine, psychology, nursing, social work, education, and business; (B) graduate training programs relevant to disease prevention; (C) core faculty in epidemiology, biostatistics, social sciences, behavioral and environmental health, and health administration; (D) an existing disease-prevention curriculum; (E) the ability to train residents in public health or preventive medicine; and (F) any other qualifications the Secretary sets; and (2) run (A) health promotion and disease prevention research, including retrospective and long-term studies of population groups and communities; (B) demonstration projects delivering health promotion and disease prevention services to specific groups, using community outreach and other engagement methods; and (C) studies evaluating how well those demonstration projects work — and the design for each evaluation study must be set before the matching demonstration project begins. (c) Equitable geographic distribution of centers; procedures: (1) In awarding grants and contracts, the Secretary must spread centers fairly across regions and among areas with a wide range of populations that show high rates of diseases most preventable through intervention. (2) The Secretary, through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and consulting the Director of the National Institutes of Health, must set up peer-review procedures for grant and contract applications, using panels mostly made up of non-federal experts. (d) "Academic health center" defined: For this section, "academic health center" means a school of medicine, a school of osteopathy, or a school of public health, as defined in section 292a(4). (e) Authorization of appropriations: Congress authorizes $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1992, and whatever money is necessary for fiscal years 1993 through 2003.