Inclusion of veterinary public health in certain public health workforce provisions

(a)

Public health workforce grants

Subsections (b)(1)(A) and (d)(6) of section 765 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 295) are amended by inserting veterinary public health, after preventive medicine, each place it appears. (b)

Public health workforce loan repayment program

(1)

In general

Subparagraphs (A) and (B) of section 776(b)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 295f–1(b)(1)) are amended by striking public health or health professions degree or certificate each place it appears and inserting public health (including veterinary public health) or health professions degree or certificate. (2)

Technical correction

Subparagraph (A) of section 776(b)(1) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 295f–1(b)(1)) is amended by adding or at the end. (c)

Definition

Section 799B of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 295p) is amended by adding at the end the following:

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Veterinary public health

The term veterinary public health includes veterinarians engaged in one or more of the following areas to the extent such areas have an impact on human health: biodefense and emergency preparedness, emerging and reemerging infectious diseases, environmental health, ecosystem health, pre- and post-harvest food protection, regulatory medicine, diagnostic laboratory medicine, veterinary pathology, biomedical research, the practice of food animal medicine in rural areas, and government practice.