Public and Allied Health Personnel Act

Public and Allied Health Personnel Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants and enter into contracts to assist eligible entities in meeting the costs of development, demonstration, study, or experimentation projects undertaken with respect to one or more of the projects specified under this Act, including; (1) methods of providing graduate education for public and community health personnel; (2) methods of providing short-term and continuing education for public and community health personnel; and (3) model curricula for the education of public and community health personnel.

States that the Secretary shall give special consideration to applications for projects which are concerned with public and community health personnel for which there is the greatest national need.

Provides that the Secretary shall make grants to public or nonprofit private graduate schools of public health and public and nonprofit private educational entities for the purpose of supporting graduate educational programs.

Authorizes an appropriation of $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 for such grants and contracts.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish traineeships in the Department to train individuals to perform public and community health services for which the Secretary determines there is unusual need; and (2) make grants to public or nonprofit private entities for traineeships to provide such training.

Authorizes an appropriation a of $12,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 for grants to such institutions.

Directs the Secretary to continuously develop, publish, and disseminate on a nationwide basis statistics and other information respecting public and community health personnel, including: (1) descriptions of the various types of activities in which public and community health personnel are engaged; and (2) needs for various types of public and community health personnel.

Directs the Secretary to submit annually to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the Senate a report on such statistics and activities conducted under this Act.

Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts to assist eligible entities in meeting the costs of specified planning, study, development, demonstration, and evaluation projects including; (1) methods of coordination, management, and articulation of education and training at various levels for allied health personnel within and among educational institutions and their clinical affiliates; (2) methods and techniques for State and regional coordination and monitoring of education and training for allied health personnel.

Authorizes an appropriation of $40,000,000 for grants and contracts for the above steps for fiscal year 1974.

Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for traineeships provided by such entities for the training of allied health personnel to teach in training programs for such personnel or to serve in administrative or supervisory positions, and authorizes an appropriation of $7,500,000 for such grants in fiscal 1974.

Directs the Secretary to continuously develop, publish, and disseminate, on a nationwide basis, statistical and other information respecting allied health personnel.

Directs that such information shall be submitted to the appropriate committees of the Congress.

Directs the Secretary to continue to support only those programs under this Act which meet his regulations as to quality.

Directs the Secretary to conduct studies to identify the various types of allied health personnel and training programs and to discover in which types shortages of personnel exist and what training programs should be assisted to meet the shortages.