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- ‘We Dissent’: NIH Workers Protest Trump Policies That ‘Harm the Health of Americans’
Rachana Pradhan, Photos by Eric Harkleroad. KFF Health News, June 9, 2025.
Hundreds of workers at the National Institutes of Health on Monday openly protested the Trump administration's cuts to the agency and consequences for human lives, writing in a sharply worded letter that its actions are causing “a dramatic reduction in life-saving research.”
In a June 9 letter to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, NIH workers said they felt “compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources.”
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NIH scraps program to diversify the biomedical workforce, a longtime goal of science
Usha Lee McFarling and Anil Oza,
STAT, Feb. 7, 2025
Applications for a prestigious National Institutes of Health grant program that supports Ph.D. students from marginalized backgrounds are abruptly being pulled from consideration during grant review sessions, according to scientists in those discussions, imperiling the journey into scientific careers for many young researchers. The actions comply with the Trump administration's new executive orders that forbid federal agencies from supporting activities promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, or accessibility. Trump issued the orders in his first days in office, saying that DEI efforts are now illegal, and discriminatory themselves.
- John Ruffin interview by Drs. Stephen Thomas and Sandra Quinn - transcript
"Dr. John Ruffin, Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, was interveiwed by Dr. Stephen Thomas and Dr. Sandra Quinn of the University of Maryland Center for Health Equity and Guest Editors of this theme issue. Dr. Ruffin discusses a variety of issues related to the importance of including minorities in research, the changing demographics of the US population, new challenges for researchers, the value of community participation, and how minority inclusion research is 'not one size fits all.'"
Note, as of 5/2/2015 pages 4 and 5 were missing from the transcript.
Audio clips were available at https://ajph.aphapublications.org/
- Presentation by NHLBI Director and Discussion - Gary Gibbons (55 min)
February 11, 2013 - National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research More: https://www.genome.gov/27552450
- Risk, Race & Resilience: Three Dimensions of Health Disparities - Herman Taylor
September 19, 2017 - Genomics and Health Disparities Lecture Series, National Human Genome Research Institute More: https://www.genome.gov/27561525 Moderator: LeShawndra Price