---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 285d"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "285d"
heading: "Purpose of Institute"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/285d"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III — National Research Institutes"
  - "Part C — Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes"
  - "Subpart 4 — national institute of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases"
---

# §285d. Purpose of Institute


The general purpose of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (hereafter in this subpart referred to as the “Institute”) is the conduct and support of research and training, the dissemination of health information, and other [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) with respect to arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases (including sports-related disorders), with particular attention to the effect of these diseases on children.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 435, as added Pub. L. 99–158, § 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 848; amended Pub. L. 103–43, title VII, § 701(a), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 162.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1993—Pub. L. 103–43 substituted “(including sports-related disorders), with particular attention to the effect of these diseases on children” for “, including sports-related disorders”.