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

# §285f. Purpose of Institute


The general purpose of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is the conduct and support of research, training, health information dissemination, and other [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) with respect to allergic and immunologic diseases and disorders and infectious diseases, including tropical diseases.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 446, as added Pub. L. 99–158, § 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 855; amended Pub. L. 103–43, title IX, § 901, June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 164.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1993—Pub. L. 103–43 inserted before period at end “, including tropical diseases”.