(8) Such other information as the Director of 
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
deems to be relevant. 
(f) PUBLIC POSTING OF REPORTED DATA.—On a 
daily basis, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention shall make the information reported pur-
suant to this section, excluding personally identifiable in-
formation, publicly available on the website of the Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention. 
(g) APPLICABILITY.—The condition on funding in 
subsection (a) applies with respect to the obligation and 
expenditure by the Federal Government of funds through 
a covered grant or cooperative agreement on or after the 
date of enactment of this Act, including with respect to 
covered grants and cooperative agreements awarded before 
such date. 
SEC. 3. STUDY EXAMINING PUBLIC HEALTH DATA AND IN-
FRASTRUCTURE NECESSARY DURING AND 
AFTER THE COVID–19 PUBLIC HEALTH EMER-
GENCY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Sec-
retary’’) shall seek to enter into a contract with the Na-
tional Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 
(referred to in this section as the ‘‘National Academies’’) 
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not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act, under which the National Academies agree to conduct 
a study with stakeholders from Federal agencies, State, 
Tribal, Territorial, and local governments, research insti-
tutions, industry, and nonprofit organizations that would 
review the current system for public health data infra-
structure and reporting and provide recommendations on 
needed data and system improvements for future 
pandemics and ongoing public health needs. 
(b) SUBMISSION OF REPORT.—The contract under 
subsection (a) shall require that the study under such sub-
section be completed, and a report on the resulting rec-
ommendations be submitted to the Secretary, the Com-
mittee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the 
Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of 
the House of Representatives, not later than 12 months 
after the date the contract was executed. 
(c) STUDY TOPICS.—The contract under subsection 
(a) shall require the study under such subsection to— 
(1) review the current public health data sys-
tems and the reporting structure for Federal, State, 
Tribal, Territorial, and local public health informa-
tion, including vital records; 
(2) review current standards for reporting, 
quality controls, and transparency of the data; 
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(3) examine data gaps and barriers to timely 
and accurate reporting and identify ways to fill 
those gaps; 
(4) examine how systems can be accessed and 
used by a wide range of users, including external re-
searchers; 
(5) examine how different data systems interact 
and how different data sources can be integrated; 
(6) examine nontraditional data sources or al-
ternative data gathering methods that could be used 
to complement traditionally collected data; 
(7) identify needed improvements to the public 
health data systems and structure, especially with 
regard to the needs of Tribal systems; 
(8) identify core elements of a ‘‘minimum data 
set’’ that might be used for State population surveil-
lance, including demographic components that are 
necessary to ensure health equity in public health 
decision making; 
(9) examine how surveillance systems can be ex-
plicitly designed to ensure underserved populations 
(which may include racial and ethnic minorities, im-
migrants, individuals in nursing homes, other insti-
tutionalized populations, and individuals experi-
encing homelessness) are included in reporting; 
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(10) consider how traditional and nontradi-
tional data might be used to promote health equity 
across the United States and reduce racial, Tribal, 
and other demographic disparities; 
(11) examine data gaps and barriers to col-
lecting, analyzing, and using demographic data to 
characterize the COVID–19 pandemic for public 
health action and research to improve public health 
actions and identify ways to fill those gaps; and 
(12) report on what is known based on existing 
data about how COVID–19 is impacting subgroups 
of the population with respect to access to testing, 
treatment, and vaccination (hospitalization and ac-
cess to drugs and medical equipment), and health 
outcomes (morbidity and mortality). 
(d) DISAGGREGATION OF DATA.—To the extent fea-
sible, the contract under subsection (a) shall require data 
to be disaggregated by race, ethnicity, age, gender, dis-
ability, geography, language, socioeconomic status, and 
other factors. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—To carry 
out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated 
$1,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
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