---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 287d–1"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "287d–1"
heading: "National data system and clearinghouse on research on women’s health"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/287d-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III — National Research Institutes"
  - "Part F — Research on Women’s Health"
---

# §287d–1. National data system and clearinghouse on research on women’s health

- (a) **Data system—**
  - (1) The [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of NIH, in consultation with the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Office and the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the National Library of Medicine, shall establish a data system for the collection, storage, analysis, retrieval, and dissemination of information regarding research on women’s health that is conducted or supported by the national research institutes. Information from the data system shall be available through information systems available to health care professionals and [providers](/usc/42/299b–21.md?p=8), researchers, and members of the public.
  - (2) The data system established under [paragraph (1)](#a-1) shall include a registry of clinical trials of experimental [treatments](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) that have been developed for research on women’s health. Such registry shall include information on subject eligibility criteria, sex, age, ethnicity or race, and the location of the trial site or sites. Principal investigators of such clinical trials shall provide this information to the registry within 30 days after it is available. Once a trial has been completed, the principal investigator shall provide the registry with information pertaining to the results, including potential toxicities or adverse effects associated with the experimental [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) or [treatments](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) evaluated.
- (b) **Clearinghouse—** The [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of NIH, in consultation with the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Office and with the National Library of Medicine, shall establish, maintain, and operate a [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) to provide information on research and prevention activities of the national research institutes that relate to research on women’s health.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 486A, as added Pub. L. 103–43, title I, § 141(a)(3), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 138.)