---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 296e–1"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "296e–1"
heading: "Grants for health professions education"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/296e-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter VI — Nursing Workforce Development"
  - "Part A — General Provisions"
---

# §296e–1. Grants for health professions education

- (a) **Cultural competency, prevention, and public health and individuals with disability grants—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), acting through the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the Health Resources and [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) Administration, may make awards of grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to [eligible entities](/usc/42/296.md?p=1) for the development, evaluation, and dissemination of research, demonstration [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2), and model curricula for cultural competency, prevention, public health proficiency, reducing health disparities, and aptitude for working with individuals with disabilities training for use in health professions [schools](/usc/42/300j–21.md?p=6) and continuing education [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4), and for other purposes determined as appropriate by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c). Grants under this section shall be the same as provided in [section 293e of this title](/usc/42/293e.md).
- (b) **Collaboration—** In carrying out [subsection (a)](#a), the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall collaborate with the entities described in [section 293e(b) of this title](/usc/42/293e.md?p=b). The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall coordinate with curricula and research and demonstration [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) developed under such section 293e.
- (c) **Dissemination—** Model curricula developed under this section shall be disseminated and evaluated in the same manner as model curricula developed under [section 293e of this title](/usc/42/293e.md), as described in [subsection (c)](/usc/42/293e.md?p=c) of such section.
- (d) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are to be appropriated to carry out this section such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2010 through 2015.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VIII, § 807, as added Pub. L. 106–525, title IV, § 401(b)(2), Nov. 22, 2000, 114 Stat. 2508; amended Pub. L. 111–148, title V, § 5307(b), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 628.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 807 of act July 1, 1944, was renumbered section 808 by Pub. L. 106–525 and is classified to section 296f of this title.

Another prior section 807 of act July 1, 1944, was renumbered section 811 and classified to section 296f of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–92, § 9(a)(1), Aug. 16, 1985, 99 Stat. 400.

### Amendments

2010—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 111–148, § 5307(b)(1), in heading, substituted “Cultural competency, prevention, and public health and individuals with disability grants” for “Grants for health professions education in health disparities and cultural competency” and, in text, substituted “for the development, evaluation, and dissemination of research, demonstration projects, and model curricula for cultural competency, prevention, public health proficiency, reducing health disparities, and aptitude for working with individuals with disabilities training for use in health professions schools and continuing education programs, and for other purposes determined as appropriate by the Secretary” for “for the purpose of carrying out research and demonstration projects (including research and demonstration projects for continuing health professions education) for training and education for the reduction of disparities in health care outcomes and the provision of culturally competent health care”.

Subsecs. (b) to (d). Pub. L. 111–148, § 5307(b)(2)–(4), added subsecs. (b) and (c), redesignated former subsec. (b) as (d), and, in subsec. (d), substituted “this section” for “subsection (a) of this section” and “2010 through 2015” for “2001 through 2004”.