by aggregating demographic health data on MENA individuals with that Europeans. (10) MENA individuals are not included among the groups for whom the OMH works to improve health outcomes and eliminate health disparities, which further limits the opportunity of MENA individuals to access programs designed to address their experiences and health conditions. (11) The OMH could better assess and eliminate health disparities by conducting a comprehensive study of the health of MENA individuals and recognizing MENA individuals as a racial and ethnic minority group. 4. Inclusion of Middle Easterners and North Africans in definition of racial and ethnic minority groups (a) In general Section 1707(g)(1) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 300u–6(g)(1) ) is amended by striking and Hispanics and inserting Hispanics, and Middle Easterners and North Africans . (b) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that subsection (a) should be implemented so as to ensure that— (1) the definition of a racial and ethnic minority group in section 1707(g)(1) of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 300u–6(g)(1) ), as amended by subsection (a), is applied in the implementation and execution of Federal programs and activities that reference such definition