---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 295b"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "295b"
heading: "Public health traineeships"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/295b"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter V — Health Professions Education"
  - "Part E — Health Professions and Public Health Workforce"
  - "Subpart 2 — public health workforce"
---

# §295b. Public health traineeships

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may make grants to accredited [schools](/usc/42/300j–21.md?p=6) of public health, and to other public or [nonprofit](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=3) private institutions accredited for the provision of graduate or specialized training in public health, for the purpose of assisting such [schools](/usc/42/300j–21.md?p=6) and institutions in providing traineeships to individuals described in [subsection (b)(3)](#b-3).
- (b) **Certain requirements—**
  - (1) **Amount—** The amount of any grant under this section shall be determined by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c).
  - (2) **Use of grant—** Traineeships awarded under grants made under [subsection (a)](#a) shall provide for tuition and fees and such stipends and allowances (including travel and subsistence expenses and dependency allowances) for the trainees as the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) may deem necessary.
  - (3) **Eligible individuals—** The individuals referred to in [subsection (a)](#a) are individuals who are pursuing a course of study in a health professions field in which there is a severe shortage of health professionals (which fields include the fields of epidemiology, environmental health, biostatistics, toxicology, nutrition, and maternal and child health).

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, § 767, as added Pub. L. 105–392, title I, § 105, Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3555.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 295b, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, § 763, as added Dec. 25, 1970, Pub. L. 91–696, § 101, 84 Stat. 2080–2, authorized Secretary to make grants and to set limitations and conditions on grants, required applications for grants, limited use of grant funds, set forth method of payment of grants, and provided for protection of financial interests of the United States, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–129, title II, § 220(c), Oct. 22, 1985, 99 Stat. 544.

Another prior section 295b, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VII, § 763, as added Oct. 31, 1963, Pub. L. 88–164, title I, § 101, 77 Stat. 283, related to amount of grants for construction of mental retardation facilities, including maximum payments, advances or reimbursement, installments, conditions, and nonduplication of grants, prior to the general amendment of former part D of this subchapter by section 101 of Pub. L. 91–696.

A prior section 767 of act July 1, 1944, was classified to section 295e–1 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–129.

Another prior section 767 of act July 1, 1944, was classified to section 295d–2 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–129.