---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 285g–1"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "285g–1"
heading: "Sudden infant death syndrome research"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/285g-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III — National Research Institutes"
  - "Part C — Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes"
  - "Subpart 7 — eunice kennedy shriver national institute of child health and human development"
---

# §285g–1. Sudden infant death syndrome research


The [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Institute shall conduct and support research which specifically relates to sudden infant death syndrome.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 449, as added Pub. L. 99–158, § 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 856.)