International Health Act

International Health Act - Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to establish mechanisms to coordinate and support health activities at the international level.

Adds the following new title to the Public Health Service Act, Title XVIII - International Health.

Directs the President to establish an Intra-Governmental Coordinating Committee on International Health.

Requires the Committee to identify and coordinate all international health activities by any entity of the Federal Government.

Establishes within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an Office of International Health. Requires the Office to be responsible for the identification and coordination of all training, service, and research activities in international health within the Department. Sets forth such activities.

Establishes within the Office of International Health a center to be known as the Fogarty International Center for Health Training and Research.

Requires the Fogarty Center to be responsible for: (1) the development and coordination of international health manpower training and research programs within the Department; and (2) the development and operation of specified international health manpower development and institutional support programs.

Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to provide for an initiative within the Department. Requires the initiative to involve increased activity in research and control of selected tropical diseases.

Establishes the Hubert H. Humphrey International Health Development Center.

States that the goals of the Humphrey Center are to initiate, encourage, support, and sponsor field research and demonstration projects specifically directed toward the implementation of improved health care programs in foreign nations.

Authorizes the Humphrey Center, among other things, to: (1) establish, maintain, and operate information and data centers and facilities for health services research; (2) initiate and carry out health services research and technical development; and (3) sponsor or support conferences, seminars, and other meetings.

Establishes an Advisory Board to the Center to perform such duties as the Board of Directors may assign.

Establishes in the Treasury of the United States the International Health Development Fund to be administered by the Humphrey Center, without the requirement of annual authorizations.

States that the purpose of such Fund is to provide capital to make grants to private voluntary organizations within and without the United States and to foreign governmental agencies for projects in international health. Authorizes the Director, in order to carry out the purposes of the Fund, to determine amounts to be withdrawn from the Fund.

Requires the Director to deposit moneys of the Fund with any Federal Reserve bank, or in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury determines.

Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary to: (1) make grants and contracts to institutions in the United States and cooperating foreign countries and to multilateral international organizations to assist in the conduct of cooperative programs in health research; and (2) pay the cost of health insurance for foreign participants and accompanying dependents in any program authorized under this Act while such participants and dependents are in the United States.

Requires the General Accounting Office to conduct a study of all Federal international health expenditures. Directs the Office to develop and implement in each Federal entity a system for the continuing identification and accounting for all international health expenditures.