; Public Law 109–108 ; 119 Stat. 2295–2296) is amended by striking with respect to any fiscal year . (6) The 6th proviso under the heading in title I of division B of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 ( 18 U.S.C. 923 note; Public Law 108–447 ; 118 Stat. 2859–2860) is amended by striking with respect to any fiscal year . (b) Department of Health and Human Services Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds made available to the Department of Health and Human Services, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, may be used to conduct research with respect to gun violence. 13605. Research program (a) Establishment The President, acting through the Director, shall develop and implement a program to improve public health and safety through research on gun violence (to be known as the National Gun Violence Research Program ), through activities carried out in collaboration with covered agencies that— (1) support gun violence research; (2) accelerate the translation of gun violence research into effective policy interventions to reduce the incidence of injury and death related to guns; (3) expand the number of researchers and students in the field of gun violence research; and (4) improve interagency planning and coordination of Federal Government activities relating to gun violence research. (b) Program activities A covered agency, in carrying out activities described in subsection (a), shall— (1) award grants to individual investigators and interdisciplinary teams of investigators for projects related to gun violence research; (2) support projects funded under joint solicitations by a collaboration of no fewer than two covered agencies; (3) establish interdisciplinary research centers that are organized to investigate basic research questions and inform policy decisions relating to gun violence; (4) provide for the education and training of undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars in gun violence research