---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 350"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "350"
heading: "Workforce health and medical support"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/350"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter VII — Management"
---

# §350. Workforce health and medical support

- (a) **In general—** The Under [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) for Management shall be responsible for workforce-focused health and medical activities of the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5). The Under [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) for Management may further delegate responsibility for those activities, as appropriate.
- (b) **Responsibilities—** The Under [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) for Management, in coordination with the Chief Medical Officer, shall—
  - (1) provide oversight and coordinate the medical and health activities of the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5) for the human and animal [personnel](/usc/6/101.md?p=15) of the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5);
  - (2) establish medical, health, veterinary, and occupational health exposure policy, guidance, strategies, and initiatives for the human and animal [personnel](/usc/6/101.md?p=15) of the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5);
  - (3) as deemed appropriate by the Under [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16), provide medical liaisons to the components of the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5), on a reimbursable basis, to provide subject matter expertise on occupational medical and public health issues;
  - (4) serve as the primary representative for the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5) on agreements regarding the detail of Commissioned Corps officers of the Public Health Service of the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5) of Health and Human Services to the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5), except that components of the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5) shall retain authority for funding, determination of specific duties, and supervision of such detailed Commissioned Corps officers; and
  - (5) perform such other duties relating to the responsibilities described in this subsection as the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) may require.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title VII, § 710, as added Pub. L. 115–387, § 2(d), Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 5167.)