CAUTION:Nih Loan Repayment Program Contract • March 23rd, 2017
Contract Type FiledMarch 23rd, 2017Sections 487A, 487C, and 487E of the Public Health Service Act (“Act”) authorize the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human services (“Secretary”) to repay a portion of the qualified education loans of health professionals selected to be participants in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Loan Repayment Programs (“LRP” or “Program”). In return for these loan repayments, applicants must agree to conduct, as employees of the NIH, qualified research in a manner and degree determined by the Secretary for a minimum of 2 years (or a minimum of 3 years for General Research LRP participants) in accordance with the service provisions of the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Loan Repayment Program established in subpart III of part D of Title III of the Act.