Sec. 4. National Arctic Health Science Policy
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The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall, in collaboration with other governmental agencies and private and nonprofit entities involved in Arctic health issues, develop a national Arctic health science policy. In developing the policy, the Director shall review and take into consideration the National Arctic Health Science Policy developed by the American Public Health Association Task Force in 1984. Section 401(c) of the Public Health Services Act (42 U.S.C. 281(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
Within the Division, there is established a Desk for Arctic Health. The Desk for Arctic Health shall— work with the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee established under section 107(b) of the Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984 ( 15 U.S.C. 4106(b) ) to ensure adequate health representation from Federal agencies; collaborate and consult with governmental entities and United States nongovernmental organizations involved in Arctic health issues, including the State of Alaska, University of Alaska, and entities that handle issues regarding the health of the indigenous people of the Arctic; and collaborate with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research on indigenous Arctic people health issues, in accordance with the 2004 agreement between the National Institutes of Health and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and with other international entities dealing with pan-Arctic health issues. .
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