---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 247b–8"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "247b–8"
heading: "Fellowship and training programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/247b-8"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter II — General Powers and Duties"
  - "Part B — Federal-State Cooperation"
---

# §247b–8. Fellowship and training programs


The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), acting through the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall establish fellowship and training [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) to be conducted by such Centers to train individuals to develop skills in epidemiology, surveillance, laboratory analysis, and other disease detection and prevention methods. Such [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) shall be designed to enable health professionals and health personnel trained under such [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) to work, after receiving such training, in local, [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f), national, and international efforts toward the prevention and control of diseases, injuries, and disabilities. Such fellowships and training may be administered through the use of either appointment or nonappointment procedures.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 317G, as added Pub. L. 105–115, title IV, § 408(b)(1), Nov. 21, 1997, 111 Stat. 2371.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 105–115, title IV, § 408(b)(2), Nov. 21, 1997, 111 Stat. 2371, provided that: “The amendment made by this subsection [enacting this section] is deemed to have taken effect July 1, 1995.”