‘‘(b) GOALS AND REPORTS.—The Collaborative shall 
submit to the Secretary a report establishing a plan to 
meet the following objectives for medical and psychosocial 
care workforce development: 
‘‘(1) Identifying, refining, and broadly dissemi-
nating to health care educators information about 
workforce competencies, models, and preservices cur-
ricula relevant to providing medical and psychosocial 
services to persons with pediatric cancers. 
‘‘(2) Adapting curricula for continuing edu-
cation of the existing workforce using efficient work-
place-based learning approaches. 
‘‘(3) Developing the skills of faculty and other 
trainers in teaching psychosocial health care using 
evidence-based teaching strategies. 
‘‘(4) Strengthening the emphasis on psycho-
social health care in educational accreditation stand-
ards and professional licensing and certification 
exams by recommending revisions to the relevant 
oversight organizations. 
‘‘(5) Evaluating the effectiveness of patient 
navigators in pediatric cancer survivorship care. 
‘‘(6) Evaluating the effectiveness of peer sup-
port programs in the psychosocial care of pediatric 
cancer patients and survivors. 
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‘‘(c) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—To 
carry out this section, there is authorized to be appro-
priated $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2013 through 
2017.’’. 
(b) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.— 
(1) 
IN
GENERAL.—Section 
of 
the 
Hematological Cancer Research Investment and 
Education Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–172; 116 
Stat. 541) is amended by striking ‘‘section 419C’’ 
and inserting ‘‘section 417C’’. 
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made 
by paragraph (1) shall take effect as if included in 
section 3 of the Hematological Cancer Research In-
vestment and Education Act of 2002 (Public Law 
107–172; 116 Stat. 541). 
SEC. 4. GRANTS TO IMPROVE CARE FOR PEDIATRIC CAN-
CER SURVIVORS. 
Section 417E of the Public Health Service Act (42 
U.S.C. 285a–11) is amended— 
(1) in the heading, by striking ‘‘RESEARCH 
AND
AWARENESS’’ and inserting ‘‘RESEARCH, 
AWARENESS, AND SURVIVORSHIP’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by redesignating paragraph (2) as 
paragraph (4); and 
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(B) by inserting after paragraph (1) the 
following: 
‘‘(2) RESEARCH ON CAUSES OF HEALTH DIS-
PARITIES IN PEDIATRIC CANCER SURVIVORSHIP.— 
‘‘(A) GRANTS.—The Director of NIH, act-
ing through the Director of the Institute, in co-
ordination with ongoing research activities, 
shall make grants to entities to conduct re-
search relating to— 
‘‘(i) needs and outcomes of pediatric 
cancer survivors within minority or other 
medically underserved populations; 
‘‘(ii) health disparities in pediatric 
cancer survivorship outcomes within minor-
ity or other medically underserved popu-
lations; 
‘‘(iii) barriers that pediatric cancer 
survivors within minority or other medi-
cally underserved populations face in re-
ceiving follow-up care; and 
‘‘(iv) 
familial, 
socioeconomic, 
and 
other environmental factors and the impact 
of such factors on treatment outcomes and 
survivorship. 
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‘‘(B) BALANCED
APPROACH.—In making 
grants for research under subparagraph (A)(i) 
on pediatric cancer survivors within minority or 
other medically underserved populations, the 
Director of NIH shall ensure that such research 
addresses both the physical and the psycho-
logical needs of such survivors. 
‘‘(3) RESEARCH ON LATE EFFECTS AND FOL-
LOW-UP
CARE
FOR
PEDIATRIC
CANCER
SUR-
VIVORS.—The Director of NIH, in coordination with 
ongoing research activities, shall conduct or support 
research on follow-up care for pediatric cancer sur-
vivors, with special emphasis given to— 
‘‘(A) the development of indicators used 
for long-term patient tracking and analysis of 
the late effects of cancer treatment for pediatric 
cancer survivors; 
‘‘(B) the identification of risk factors asso-
ciated with the late effects of cancer treatment; 
‘‘(C) the identification of predictors of 
neurocognitive and psychosocial outcomes; 
‘‘(D) initiatives to protect cancer survivors 
from the late effects of cancer treatment; 
‘‘(E) transitions in care for pediatric can-
cer survivors; 
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‘‘(F) training of professionals to provide 
linguistically and culturally competent follow-up 
care to pediatric cancer survivors; and 
‘‘(G) different models of follow-up care.’’; 
and 
(3) in subsection (d)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘this section and’’ and in-
serting ‘‘subsection (a)(1), subsection (b), and’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘2013’’ and inserting 
‘‘2017’’; and 
(C) by inserting after the second sentence 
the following: ‘‘For purposes of carrying out 
subsections (a)(2) and (a)(3), there is author-
ized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for each of 
fiscal years 2013 through 2017.’’. 
SEC. 5. COMPREHENSIVE LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP SERV-
ICES FOR PEDIATRIC CANCER SURVIVORS. 
Part B of title III of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 243 et seq.) is amended by inserting after sec-
tion 317T the following: 
‘‘SEC. 317U. CLINICS FOR COMPREHENSIVE LONG-TERM 
FOLLOW-UP SERVICES FOR PEDIATRIC CAN-
CER SURVIVORS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall make grants 
to eligible entities to establish and operate a clinic for com-
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