(B) to submit to the Congress a report on 
the results of such study, to be entitled ‘‘Report 
to the Nation on Men’s Health’’. 
(2) CONTENTS.—The study conducted under 
this subsection shall be a fair and impartial review 
of the state of men’s health in the United States (in-
cluding the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth 
of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, 
Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Mar-
shall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, 
the Republic of Palau, and any other territory or 
possession of the United States) and shall— 
(A) include information on racial and eth-
nic minority men and a focus on African Amer-
ican, Hispanic, Native American, and Asian 
and Pacific Island men and their health dispari-
ties; 
(B) describe the activities and accomplish-
ments of the Office of Men’s Health; 
(C) include statistics and information that 
indicate men’s health in standard and cus-
tomary health categories with commonly used 
health indices; 
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(D) provide, in addition to commonly used 
health indices, the status of social determinants 
of men’s health; 
(E) include all relevant qualitative mate-
rials that indicate the state of men’s health, in-
cluding statistical studies, qualitative evalua-
tions, findings, and program evaluations of cur-
rent programs and initiatives of the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services; 
(F) draw from both primary and secondary 
research resources from local, State, and Fed-
eral agencies; and 
(G) include updated information relative to 
the Institute of Medicine’s study entitled ‘‘Un-
equal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Eth-
nic Disparities in Healthcare’’. 
(3) PANEL OF INDEPENDENT EXPERTS.— 
(A) 
ESTABLISHMENT.—The 
agreement 
under paragraph (1) shall provide for the estab-
lishment of a panel of independent experts (in 
this paragraph referred to as the ‘‘panel’’) to 
assist in the conduct of the study under this 
subsection by reviewing and providing guidance 
on appropriate outcomes and assessments for 
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men’s health and health disparities of men of 
color. 
(B) COMPOSITION.—The agreement under 
paragraph (1) shall provide for appropriate rep-
resentation on the panel from the racial and 
ethnic groups covered by the study under this 
subsection. 
(b) ANNUAL REPORTING.—Subsequent to the sub-
mission of the report required by subsection (a)(1)(B), the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through 
the National Institutes of Health and the Director of the 
Office of Men’s Health, shall submit an annual report to 
the Congress that— 
(1) includes the same extent of information on 
men’s health as is included in the Secretary’s annual 
reporting to the Congress on women’s health; and 
(2) uses analytical tools similar to those used in 
such reporting on women’s health. 
(c) NATIONAL
HEALTHCARE
DISPARITIES
RE-
PORT.—In each report submitted under section 903(a)(6) 
of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 299a– 
1(a)(6)), the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Re-
search and Quality shall include analysis of available data 
on racial, ethnic, and geographic disparities in men’s 
health, including rates for uninsured populations, heart 
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disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, uninten-
tional injuries, mental health and suicide, oral and dental 
health, chronic liver disease, and HIV/AIDS. 
Æ 
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