; and (B) shall provide personal protective equipment to such participants if the work such participants are assigned to do at such service site requires the use of such personal protective equipment; and (4) any other information that the Director, in coordination with the Secretary, determines necessary. (d) Assignment of national public health service program participants (1) Public health emergencies If a public health emergency is declared by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 247d ), the campus director may task participants under the national public health service program to assist in response. (2) Assignment Under paragraph (1), the Director, in coordination with the campus director, may— (A) assign interested participants under the national public health service program to service sites to assist with contact tracing, testing, and providing support for the administration of vaccinations for COVID–19; (B) make travel arrangements for the assigned national public health service program participants to service sites; and (C) provide funds to the service sites to which national public health service program participants are assigned, to enable such sites to coordinate and provide housing, living stipends, and insurance for those assigned members. (e) COVID–19 projects With respect to participants under the national public health service program who serve during the emergency period (as defined in paragraph (1)(B) of section 1135(g) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1320b–5(g) )), the campus director shall encourage such participants to perform tasks, in-person or virtually, to address issues arising during such emergency period which include— (1) contact tracing; (2) supporting the administration of testing for COVID–19; (3) supporting the administration of vaccinations