Common Contracts

NIH Loan Repayment Program Contract

January 15th, 2004

• Filed
  January 15th, 2004

Sections 487A, 487B, 487C, 487E, and 487F of the Public Health Service Act (“Act”) authorize the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (“Secretary”), and Section 485G authorizes the Director, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD), to enter into contracts with qualified health professionals under which such professionals agree to conduct research in consideration of the Federal government agreeing to repay, for each year of such service, not more than $35,000 of the principal and interest of the educational loans of such professionals. In return for these loan repayments, applicants must agree to participate in qualifying research, for an initial period of obligated service of not less than two years (or a minimum of three years for General Research Loan Repayment Program participants), as one of the following: an NIH employee or a health professional engaged in qualifying research at an institution determined by NIH to be eligible to spons