New York Public Health Law Section 906 - Grants for minority participation in medical education.

 906.  Grants for minority participation in medical education. 1. The
  commissioner,  in  collaboration  with  the  commissioner  of education,
  within amounts available pursuant to subdivision nineteen-a  of  section
  twenty-eight hundred seven-c and section twenty-eight hundred seven-l of
  this  chapter,  is  authorized  to  make  grants  to  encourage minority
  participation in medicine.
2.  Grants shall be awarded through a request for application  process
  for the following purposes:
to  medical  schools located in New York state or primary care medical
  training  programs  to  encourage  minority  participation  in   medical
  education,  which  may  include programs to enhance minority recruitment
  and retention,  minority  student  mentoring  programs,  development  of
  medical  career  pathways  for  minority  students,  and  development of
  minority faculty role models.
3. The intent of this program  is  to  augment  or  increase  minority
  participation in medical education.  Grants funding shall not be used to
  offset  existing  expenditures  which  the  grantee  has  obligated  for
  minority participation in medical education.

Last modified: February 3, 2019