---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 285g–7"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "285g–7"
heading: "Child health research centers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/285g-7"
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–7. Child health research centers


The [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Institute shall develop and support centers for conducting research with respect to child health. Such centers shall give priority to the expeditious transfer of advances from basic science to clinical applications and improving the care of infants and children.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 452C, as added Pub. L. 103–43, title X, § 1021, June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 167.)