---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 287b"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "287b"
heading: "General purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/287b"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III — National Research Institutes"
  - "Part E — Other Agencies of NIH"
  - "Subpart 2 — john e. fogarty international center for advanced study in health sciences"
---

# §287b. General purpose


The general purpose of the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences is to—

- (1) facilitate the assembly of scientists and others in the biomedical, behavioral, and related fields for discussion, study, and research relating to the development of health science internationally;
- (2) provide research [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4), conferences, and seminars to further international cooperation and collaboration in the life sciences;
- (3) provide postdoctorate fellowships for research training in the United States and abroad and promote [exchanges](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=d-21) of senior scientists between the United States and other countries;
- (4) coordinate the activities of the National Institutes of Health concerned with the health sciences internationally; and
- (5) receive foreign visitors to the National Institutes of Health.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 482, as added Pub. L. 99–158, § 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 866.)