---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 285g–3"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "285g–3"
heading: "Associate Director for Prevention; appointment; function"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/285g-3"
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–3. Associate Director for Prevention; appointment; function


There shall be in the Institute an Associate [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) for Prevention to coordinate and promote the [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) in the Institute concerning the prevention of health problems of mothers and children. The Associate [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) shall be appointed by the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Institute from individuals who because of their professional training or experience are experts in public health or preventive medicine.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 451, as added Pub. L. 99–158, § 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 856; amended Pub. L. 105–362, title VI, § 601(a)(1)(E), Nov. 10, 1998, 112 Stat. 3285.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1998—Pub. L. 105–362 struck out subsec. (a) designation and struck out subsec. (b) which read as follows: “The Associate Director for Prevention shall prepare for inclusion in the biennial report made under section 284b of this title a description of the prevention activities of the Institute, including a description of the staff and resources allocated to those activities.”