Health

Jurisdiction includes: Public health and quarantine, including emergency preparedness and response; hospital construction; mental health; health disparities; biomedical research and development; health information technology (Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology), privacy and cybersecurity; public health insurance (Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program) and private health insurance; medical malpractice and medical malpractice insurance; the regulation of human and animal drugs, vaccines and other biological products, devices, food, cosmetics, and tobacco (the Food and Drug Administration); substance use and misuse, including the Control Substances Act and the Office of National Drug Control Policy; the Department of Health and Human Services, including but not limited to the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Indian Health Service; environmental justice as it relates to the above-referenced jurisdiction; and all aspects of the above-referenced jurisdiction related to the Department of Homeland Security.