Sec. 710. IMPROVE Initiative
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Part B of title IV of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 284 et seq. ), as amended by section 710, is further amended by adding at the end the following: The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall carry out a program of research to improve health outcomes to be known as the Implementing a Maternal health and PRegnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone Initiative (referred to in this section as the Initiative ). The Initiative shall— advance research to— reduce preventable causes of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity; reduce health disparities related to maternal health outcomes, including such disparities associated with medically underserved populations; and improve health for pregnant and postpartum women before, during, and after pregnancy; use an integrated approach to understand the factors, including biological, behavioral, and other factors, that affect maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity by building an evidence base for improved outcomes in specific regions of the United States; and target health disparities associated with maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity by— implementing and evaluating community-based interventions for disproportionately affected women; and identifying risk factors and the underlying biological mechanisms associated with leading causes of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity in the United States.
The authority under this section shall expire on September 30, 2029. .
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