Bill > HR2548

This bill, the Pediatric Research Improvement Act of 2015, amends the Public Health Service Act to enhance pediatric research by requiring collaboration with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, a key part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) focused on child health, and mandating the establishment of a National Pediatric Research Network. This network will be composed of various pediatric research consortia, which are groups of institutions or individuals working together on pediatric research. The NIH will provide funding to entities that support these consortia, and in return, these supported consortia must assist the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a federal agency focused on public health and disease control, with tasks like maintaining patient registries and other surveillance systems, which are methods for tracking health trends and diseases.