---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 285c–8"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "285c–8"
heading: "Nutritional disorders program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/285c-8"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III — National Research Institutes"
  - "Part C — Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes"
  - "Subpart 3 — national institute of diabetes and digestive and kidney diseases"
---

# §285c–8. Nutritional disorders program

- (a) **Establishment—** The [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Institute, in consultation with the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of NIH, shall establish a [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) of conducting and supporting research, training, health information dissemination, and other activities with respect to nutritional disorders, including obesity.
- (b) **Support of activities—** In carrying out the [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) established under [subsection (a)](#a), the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Institute shall conduct and support each of the activities described in such subsection.
- (c) **Dissemination of information—** In carrying out the [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) established under [subsection (a)](#a), the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Institute shall carry out activities to facilitate and enhance knowledge and understanding of nutritional disorders, including obesity, on the part of health professionals, patients, and the public through the effective dissemination of information.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 434, as added Pub. L. 103–43, title VI, § 601[(a)], June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 161.)