Inclusive Diabetes Research and Education Act

Bill: 116-hr-9007
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Garcia, Jesus G. "Chuy" [D-IL-4]
Introduced: 2020-12-17
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alaska Natives and Hawaiians

Digestive and metabolic diseases

Foreign language and bilingual programs

Health care coverage and access

Health care quality

Health information and medical records

Health programs administration and funding

Health promotion and preventive care

Medical research

Minority health

Research administration and funding
Latest action: action_date: 2020-12-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-12-17
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Inclusive Diabetes Research and Education Act</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to carry out research activities, including to improve diabetes care for minority populations, and support programs that educate minority populations and the public about diabetes prevention and management.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9007 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 17, 2020 Mr. García of Illinois introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce A BILL To amend the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to conduct and support research and public health activities with respect to diabetes in minority populations, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Inclusive Diabetes Research and Education Act . 2. Research, education, and other activities Part B of title III of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 243 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: 317V. Diabetes in minority populations (a) Research and other activities (1) In general The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall conduct and support research and public health activities with respect to diabetes in minority populations. (2) Certain activities Activities under paragraph (1) regarding diabetes in minority populations shall include the following: (A) Further enhancing the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey by oversampling Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in appropriate geographic areas to better determine the prevalence of diabetes in such populations as well as to improve the data collection of diabetes penetration disaggregated into major ethnic groups within such populations. The Secretary shall ensure that any such oversampling does not reduce the oversampling of other minority populations including African-American and Latino populations. (B) Through the Division of Diabetes Translation— (i) providing for prevention research to better understand how to influence health care systems changes to improve quality of care being delivered to such populations; (ii) carrying out model demonstration projects to design, implement, and evaluate effective diabetes prevention and control interventions for minority populations, including culturally appropriate community-based interventions; (iii) developing and implementing a strategic plan to reduce diabetes in minority populations through applied research to reduce disparities and culturally and linguistically appropriate community-based interventions; (iv) supporting, through the national diabetes prevention program under section 399V–3, diabetes prevention program sites in underserved regions highly impacted by diabetes; and (v) implementing, through the national diabetes prevention program under section 399V–3, a demonstration program developing new metrics measuring health outcomes related to diabetes that can be stratified by specific minority populations. (b) Education The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall direct the Division of Diabetes Translation to conduct and support both programs to educate the public on diabetes in minority populations and programs to educate minority populations about the causes and effects of diabetes. (c) Diabetes; health promotion, prevention activities, and access The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Diabetes Education Program, shall conduct and support programs to educate specific minority populations through culturally appropriate and linguistically appropriate information campaigns about prevention of, and managing, diabetes. (d) Definition For purposes of this section, the term minority population means a racial and ethnic minority group, as defined in section 1707. .