---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 247d–7a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "247d–7a"
heading: "Grants regarding training and education of certain health professionals"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/247d-7a"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter II — General Powers and Duties"
  - "Part B — Federal-State Cooperation"
---

# §247d–7a. Grants regarding training and education of certain health professionals

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may make awards of grants and cooperative agreements to appropriate public and [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) private health or educational entities, including health professions [schools](/usc/42/300j–21.md?p=6) and [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) as defined in [section 295p of this title](/usc/42/295p.md), for the purpose of providing low-interest loans, partial scholarships, partial fellowships, revolving loan funds, or other cost-sharing forms of assistance for the education and training of individuals in any category of health professions for which there is a shortage that the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) determines should be alleviated in order to prepare for or respond effectively to bioterrorism and other public health emergencies.
- (b) **Authority regarding non-Federal contributions—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may require as a condition of an award under [subsection (a)](#a) that a grantee under such subsection provide non-Federal contributions toward the purpose described in such subsection.
- (c) **Authorization of appropriations—** For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2002 through 2006.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, § 319H, as added Pub. L. 107–188, title I, § 106, June 12, 2002, 116 Stat. 607.)