Sec. 501. National consortium on breastfeeding research
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health, shall establish a national consortium on breastfeeding research (referred to in this section as the consortium ), to be composed of researchers determined appropriate by the Secretary, in consultation with the Director, to— assist in overcoming the limitations faced by researchers in designing breastfeeding studies; increase the generalizability of research on breastfeeding; assist in prioritizing key breastfeeding research areas; enable the performance of expanded and advanced breastfeeding research; and foster the timely translation of such research into practice.
The consortium shall seek to— standardize definitions of specific terms and measures used to classify the variables used in research on breastfeeding; promote the use of the definitions standardized under paragraph (1); identify ethical study designs that would expand the knowledge that has been generated from observational breastfeeding studies; develop and update national agendas for surveillance and research on topics related to breastfeeding and infant nutrition; spearhead funding strategies to help accomplish the agenda developed by the consortium; facilitate communication among researchers; and promote the dissemination of research findings and monitor the translation of research into best practices.
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2014 through 2018.