---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300cc–40"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300cc–40"
heading: "Establishment of Office"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300cc-40"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXI — Research with Respect to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome"
  - "Part D — Office of AIDS Research"
  - "Subpart i — interagency coordination of activities"
---

# §300cc–40. Establishment of Office

- (a) **In general—** There is established within the National Institutes of Health an office to be known as the Office of AIDS Research. The Office shall be headed by a [director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5), who shall be appointed by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c).
- (b) **Duties—**
  - (1) **Interagency coordination of AIDS activities—** With respect to acquired immune deficiency syndrome, the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Office shall plan, coordinate, and evaluate research and other activities conducted or supported by the [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) of the National Institutes of Health. In carrying out the preceding sentence, the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Office shall evaluate the AIDS activities of each of such [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) and shall provide for the periodic reevaluation of such activities.
  - (2) **Consultations—** The [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Office shall carry out this subpart (including developing and revising the plan required in [section 300cc–40c of this title](/usc/42/300cc–40c.md)) in consultation with the heads of the [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) of the National Institutes of Health, with the [advisory councils](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=1) of the [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), and with the [advisory council](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=1) established under [section 300cc–40b of this title](/usc/42/300cc–40b.md).
  - (3) **Coordination—** The [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Office shall act as the primary Federal official with responsibility for overseeing all AIDS research conducted or supported by the National Institutes of Health, and
    - (A) shall serve to represent the National Institutes of Health AIDS Research [Program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) at all relevant Executive branch [task forces](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=3) and committees; and
    - (B) shall maintain communications with all relevant Public Health [Service](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) and with various other departments of the Federal Government, to ensure the timely transmission of information concerning advances in AIDS research and the clinical [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) of acquired immune deficiency syndrome and its related conditions, between these various [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) for dissemination to affected communities and [health care providers](/usc/42/300aa–33.md?p=1).

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXIII, § 2351, as added Pub. L. 103–43, title XVIII, § 1801(a)(3), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 192.)