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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Women's Health Regional Centers
Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

The Congress finds as follows:
(1) Until recently, women have been excluded from most
clinical trials for treatments for cancer, heart disease, and
stroke, despite the fact that women react differently from men
to many treatments for these and other diseases.
(2) Historically, little research money has been devoted to
diseases that primarily afflict women, such as osteoporosis,
breast cancer, and multiple sclerosis.
(3) The American medical education system has not trained
physicians and other health care professionals for women's
health needs. A major barrier to change is the absence of an
appropriate curriculum on women's health. Another barrier to
change has been the significant underrepresentation of women in
senior ranks of academic medicine. As long as this void in
women leaders is allowed to continue, women's health issues
will not gain the appropriate attention within the medical
community.
(4) The establishment of the Office of Research on Women's
Health at the National Institutes of Health is vital to
addressing the necessary research for diseases and health
conditions that affect women. However, there is currently no
means by which to translate this new research into improved
physician education and patient care.
(5) The Federal Government should develop regional
education and treatment centers on women's health to
disseminate the information made available by the National
Institutes of Health and other Federal research efforts in
women's health.

SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM FOR MULTIPURPOSE REGIONAL CENTERS ON
WOMEN'S HEALTH.

Part F of title IV of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 287d
et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following section:

''SEC. 486C. MULTIPURPOSE REGIONAL CENTERS ON WOMEN'S HEALTH.

''(a) In General.--The Director of NIH, in consultation with the
Director of the Office, shall make grants to, or enter into contracts
with, public or nonprofit private entities for the development and
operation of centers to carry out the activities described in
subsection (c) regarding women's health conditions.
''(b) Number of Centers; Regional Considerations.--The Director of
NIH shall, subject to the extent of amounts made available in
appropriations Acts, provide for the development of 5 centers under
subsection (a) and shall ensure, to the extent practicable, that such a
center is developed in each of the principal geographic regions of the
United States.
''(c) Activities of Centers.--
''(1) In general.--With respect to women's health
conditions, each center developed under subsection (a) shall--
''(A) conduct basic research, and clinical and
other applied research;
''(B) develop curricula for training health
professionals and scientists;
''(C) conduct training programs for health
professionals and scientists;
''(D) develop model continuing education programs
for health professionals and scientists;
''(E) disseminate information to health
professionals, scientists, and the public;
''(F) develop model programs for the delivery of
health services to women, including, as appropriate,
programs specific to particular age groups; and
''(G) in the case of women who are in the medical
profession (including women attending schools of
medicine), develop model programs for training the
women in the skills necessary for achieving positions
of leadership in such schools and in academic health
centers.
''(2) Stipends regarding training; fees regarding clinical
research subjects.--A center may use funds provided under
subsection (a) to provide stipends for health professionals and
scientists enrolled in programs described in subparagraph (C)
of paragraph (1), and to provide fees to individuals serving as
subjects in clinical trials conducted under such paragraph.
''(d) Coordination of Information.--The Director of NIH shall, as
appropriate, provide for the coordination of information among the
centers assisted under subsection (a) and among the national research
institutes.
''(e) Structure of Centers.--Each center assisted under subsection
(a) shall use the facilities of a single institution, or be formed from
a consortium of cooperating institutions, meeting such requirements as
may be prescribed by the Director of NIH.
''(f) Duration of Support.--Support of a center under subsection
(a) may be for a period not exceeding 5 years. Such period may be
extended for one or more additional periods not exceeding 5 years if
the operations of such center have been reviewed by an appropriate
technical and scientific peer review group established by the Director
of NIH and if such group has recommended to the Director that such
period should be extended.
''(g) Limitation on Support Per Center.--The Director of NIH may
not, from amounts appropriated under subsection (h), obligate more than
$15,000,000 in the aggregate for the development and operation of a
center under subsection (a).
''(h) Aggregate Authorizations of Appropriations.--For the purpose
of carrying out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated
$60,000,000 in the aggregate for fiscal year 1995 and subsequent fiscal
years.''.
Women's Health Regional Centers Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institutes of Health to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, public or nonprofit private entities for the development and operation of centers to carry out specified activities regarding women's health conditions.
Requires the Director to provide for the development of five centers and to ensure that such a center is developed in each of the principal geographic regions of the United States.
Directs each center to: (1) conduct basic, clinical, and applied research and training programs for health professionals and scientists; (2) devleop curricula and model continuing education programs for training health professionals and scientists and model programs for the delivery of health services to women; (3) disseminate information to health professionals, scientists, and the public; and (4) develop, in the case of women who are in the medical profession, model programs for training such women in the skills necessary for achieving positions of leadership in such schools and in academic health centers.
Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) coordination of information; (2) structure of centers; (3) duration of support; and (4) limits on support.
Authorizes appropriations.