The public health service organization responsible for monitoring institutional compliance with public health service policy is the office of laboratory animal welfare or as called as OLAW, formerly OPRR. The office of laboratory animal welfare supervises the care and use of research animals in public health service funded research. The public health service contains of the national institutes of health, centers for disease control and prevention, the food and drug, the food and drug administration, the agency for healthcare research and quality, the Indian health service and the substance abuse and mental health services administration. The agencies of the public health service are part of the united states department of health and human services.
