42 U.S.C. § 241
Research and investigations generally
United States · Title 42 — THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE · Status: effective
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- 42 U.S.C. § 241, Research and investigations generally, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/475111
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The Secretary shall conduct in the Service, and encourage, cooperate with, and render assistance to other appropriate public authorities, scientific institutions, and scientists in the conduct of, and promote the coordination of, research, investigations, experiments, demonstrations, and studies relating to the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention of physical and mental diseases and impairments of man, including water purification, sewage treatment, and pollution of lakes and streams. In carrying out the foregoing the Secretary is authorized to—
The Secretary shall publish a biennial report which contains—
a description of (i) each request received during the year involved—
The Secretary may conduct biomedical research, directly or through grants or contracts, for the identification, control, treatment, and prevention of diseases (including tropical diseases) which do not occur to a significant extent in the United States.
If a person is engaged in biomedical, behavioral, clinical, or other research, in which identifiable, sensitive information is collected (including research on mental health and research on the use and effect of alcohol and other psychoactive drugs), the Secretary, in coordination with other agencies, as applicable—
The disclosure prohibition in subparagraph (B) shall not apply to disclosure or use that is—
For purposes of this subsection, the term “identifiable, sensitive information” means information that is about an individual and that is gathered or used during the course of research described in paragraph (1)(A) and—
The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall expand, intensify, and coordinate the activities of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with respect to preterm labor and delivery, preventable maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity, and infant mortality.
The Secretary may exempt from disclosure under section 552(b)(3) of title 5 biomedical information that is about an individual and that is gathered or used during the course of biomedical research if—
Subchapter I of chapter 35 of title 44 shall not apply to the voluntary collection of information during the conduct of research by the National Institutes of Health.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- An Act to extend through fiscal year 1974 certain expiring appropriations authorizations in the Public Health Service Act, the Community Mental Health Centers Act, and the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Research ActHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Cancer Act AmendmentsHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Health Research and Health Services Amendments of 1976House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- An Act to amend the Community Mental Health Centers Act to revise and extend the programs under that Act, to amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend the programs of assistance for libraries of medicine, the programs of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and of the National Cancer Institute, and the program for National Research Service Awards, to establish the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- An act to establish a Department of Education, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Health Research Extension Act of 1985House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- State Comprehensive Mental Health Services Plan Act of 1986House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Health Omnibus Extension of 1988House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993
- PREEMIE ActHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- 21st Century Cures ActHouse: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022House: 363–70Senate: no recorded tally
- Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally