Sec. 505. Grants to minority-serving institutions to study maternal mortality, severe maternal morbidity, and other adverse maternal health outcomes
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall establish a program under which the Secretary shall award grants to minority-serving institutions to study specific aspects of the maternal health crisis among minority women. Such research may— include the development and implementation of systematic processes of listening to the stories of minority women to fully understand the causes of, and inform potential solutions to, the maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity crisis within their respective communities; and assess the potential causes of low rates of maternal mortality among Hispanic women, including potential racial misclassification and other data collection and reporting issues that might be misrepresenting maternal mortality rates among Hispanic women in the United States.
To be eligible to receive a grant under subsection (a), an entity described in such subsection shall submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require. The Secretary may use not more than 10 percent of the funds made available under subsection (f)— to conduct outreach to minority-serving institutions to raise awareness of the availability of grants under this subsection (a); to provide technical assistance in the application process for such a grant; and to promote capacity building as needed to enable entities described in such subsection to submit such an application.
Each entity awarded a grant under this section shall periodically submit to the Secretary a report on the status of activities conducted using the grant. Beginning one year after the date on which the first grant is awarded under this section, the Secretary shall submit to Congress an annual report summarizing the findings of research conducted using funds made available under this section. There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025.
In this section, the term minority-serving institution means an eligible institution described in section 371(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1067q(a) ).
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Sec. 505
Grants to minority-serving institutions to study maternal mortality, severe maternal morbidity, and other adverse maternal health outcomes
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