It\u2019s hard to remember all the earthshaking decisions and events that have transpired with unprecedented speed in the first few months of the Trump administration. We\u2019re tracking, day by day, what\u2019s happened in the worlds of science and health.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nLegal action<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/p>\nCovid<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/p>\nDEI and LGBTQ+<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/p>\nExecutive action<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/p>\nFunding cuts and freezes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/p>\nJob cuts and staffing changes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/p>\nMAHA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/p>\nScience<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/p>\nVaccines<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n<\/h6>\n\n<\/p>\nTrump signs executive order declaring only two biological sexes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTrump orders U.S. to leave the World Health Organization.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nPresident signs more than two dozen executive orders,<\/a> including eliminating DEI programs and freezing USAID contracts and other foreign aid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nHHS pauses CDC, FDA, and NIH communications with the public<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTrump administration orders closure of all federal DEI offices, workers placed on leave.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nIn a sign of the reach of Trump\u2019s orders to eliminate DEI initiatives, the FDA removes information on ensuring clinical trials are diverse<\/a> from its website.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nMatthew Memoli, critic of Anthony Fauci, named acting NIH director<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nAdministration bars federal funding for NGOs that provide abortions;\u00a0
withdraws proposed ban on menthol cigarettes; rescinds Biden order to increase abortion access; fires federal inspectors general, including for HHS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nGrant disbursements paused to ensure they comply with executive orders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nTrump orders CDC to stop working with WHO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nResearchers reel as NIH begins terminating grants related to DEI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nServicemembers dismissed for refusal to take Covid vaccine are reinstated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nTrump signs order prohibiting federal funding for gender-affirming care to those under 19<\/a> and calls on the Justice Department to pursue litigation and legislation to stop the practice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nStates have difficulty accessing Medicaid funds<\/a> after Trump halts some federal payments. The administration moves quickly to clarify that the health program shouldn\u2019t be subject to the freeze.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nHHS secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. grilled at Senate hearings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nAdministration orders agencies to suspend programs that recognize transgender people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nFederal funding freeze temporarily prevents some postdoctoral researchers from being paid by National Science Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTrump executive orders seen as a strategy to use the threat of lost research funds as leverage<\/a> to dismantle universities\u2019 DEI programs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nThousands of government webpages taken down, including CDC databases with information on sexual orientation and gender identity<\/a>, to remove banned language.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nCDC main advisory board calls for restoration of scrubbed data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nNobel laureates decry Trump attack on science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nProfessional society for microbiologists scrubs diversity content,<\/a> angering members and showing reach of Trump executive orders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nSome NIH grant reviews resume<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nOpposition to RFK Jr.\u2019s confirmation fades, as key Republican senator acquiesces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nHHMI, nation\u2019s largest private funder of biomedical research, cancels diversity program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nNIH scraps program to diversify biomedical workforce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTrump administration announces it will cut indirect costs to universities<\/a>, capping what it pays for research overhead and administration at 15% of grant amount.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nCuts to indirect costs stayed in 22 states that filed suit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nJudge extends temporary order against cuts to indirect costs nationwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTrump policies spark fear of brain drain from U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nActing NIH Director Lawrence Tabak forced out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTrump swears in RFK Jr. as HHS secretary and signs EO creating a MAHA Commission<\/a>, with Kennedy as chair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nAdministration starts cutting LGBTQ+ grants<\/a> and flagging grants for taboo words<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTop NIH official who oversees grants departs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nAdministration starts notifying roughly 5,200 probationary health agency employees of their termination<\/a>, including drug inspectors, AI experts, and maternal health workers<\/a>. Many were informed that they were being terminated for poor performance, even though they said they had previously received only strong performance evaluations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nFunds cut for navigators who help people enroll in Affordable Care Act health plans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nTrump orders federal funding be withheld from schools requiring Covid vaccination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nTrump signs EO to expand IVF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nGraduate admissions paused or reduced at some universities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nKennedy announces new guidance specifying only two genders exist, defying biological reality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nNational Academies scrubs DEI-related language<\/a> from pending reports, drawing a letter of protest from scientists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nCDC vaccine advisory board meeting postponed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nFreeze on Federal Register listings is being used to block NIH grant funding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nTrump administration starts rehiring fired FDA workers<\/a> after pushback<\/a> from industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nSome study sections resume meeting to review grants,<\/a> but final funding decisions still in limbo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTrump executive order calls for more transparency in medical pricing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nNIH cancels internships for thousands of college students<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nA child in Texas who was unvaccinated dies during a growing measles outbreak, the first U.S. measles death in 10 years. Kennedy, a longtime critic of the measles vaccine, appeared to try to downplay the news<\/a>, saying the outbreak is \u201cnot unusual.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nFDA cancels an advisory committee meeting<\/a> on flu strains for the upcoming season\u2019s vaccine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nNew Trump plan on bird flu<\/a> focuses on economic threat caused by sick poultry rather than the pandemic threat to human health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nMore LGBTQ+ grants terminated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTop HHS spokesman, a Trump veteran, abruptly quits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nFrancis Collins, former director, retires from NIH<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nIn Fox News opinion piece, Kennedy doesn\u2019t endorse measles vaccine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nMaternal health data sources see disruption<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nRFK gives muted call for measles vaccinations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nAmid worsening measles outbreak, Kennedy embraces cod liver oil and other unconventional treatments for measles, says vaccines prevent infection but casts getting a shot as a personal decision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nJudge issues preliminary injunction blocking cuts to indirect costs<\/a>, a ruling suggesting that plaintiffs seeking to overturn the policy change are likely to eventually succeed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\n\u201cUrgent\u201d survey of CDC grant recipients, described by one as \u201can ideological litmus test,\u201d mistakenly sent to wrong email list, causing widespread confusion.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nStand Up for Science rallies held in 32 U.S. cities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTrump administration cancels $400M in grants at Columbia University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nHHS says CDC will study the debunked link between vaccines and autism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nKennedy vows to rid foods of red dyes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nHarvard physicians sue over removal of studies including the terms \u201cLGBTQ\u201d and \u201ctrans\u201d<\/a> from a government website.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nWhite House pulls nomination of Dave Weldon for CDC director<\/a> over concerns his long opposition to vaccines would imperil Senate confirmation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nAdministration cuts funding for landmark 30-year diabetes study<\/a>, apparently as a result of its cancellation of grants to Columbia University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nLongtime head of the National Human Genome Research Institute is first director of an NIH institute to leave agency<\/a> under Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nVA announces it will phase out gender-affirming care.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nMost FDA employees are required to return to in-person work<\/a>, the latest challenge for the agency\u2019s morale and retention efforts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nNIH terminates grants to study HIV prevention drug PrEP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nWhite House announces suspension of $175 million in grants to the University of Pennsylvania over a transgender athlete.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nNIH removes outside advisers who evaluate research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nSusan Monarez, a relative unknown in public health, selected to lead CDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nJay Bhattacharya confirmed as NIH director and Marty Markary confirmed as FDA commissioner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nNIH withdraws funding for studies to prevent HIV infections in teens and young adults<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nVaccine critic David Geier, who was disciplined in Maryland for practicing medicine without a license, chosen to lead a vaccine study<\/a> looking for a link to autism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nMore than $11 billion in federal grants for state and local public health programs canceled<\/a>. Money had originally been allocated for the Covid-19 response, but was now being used for disease tracking, addiction treatment, and combatting the measles outbreak in Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nNIH directs staff to identify grants or contracts that \u201cmay be related to any form of censorship,\u201d<\/a> including any involving \u201cfighting misinformation or disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nFunding for new Covid-19 treatments canceled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nPeter Marks, top FDA vaccine official, pushed out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nMore than 2,000 National Academies members call for halt on attack on science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nHHS human research ethics advisory panel disbanded<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nHHS starts reduction in force affecting as many as 10,000 employees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nFive NIH institute directors placed on leave<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nCDC division for asthma control and lead poisoning prevention eliminated<\/a>; administration says the work \u201cwill continue elsewhere at HHS.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nFDA\u2019s chief tobacco regulator and dozens of other Center for Tobacco Products employees are dismissed<\/a>, along with most of the staff of the CDC Office of Smoking and Health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nRegulatory leaders and staff across FDA are fired on commissioner Marty Makary\u2019s first official day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nHHS says it\u2019s been ordered to cut 35% of contract spending, including $2.6 billion at NIH<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTrump threatens to withhold $9 billion in federal funding for Harvard University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nAdministration says it will pause $510 million in funding to Brown University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nLegal action<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nCovid<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nDEI and LGBTQ+<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nExecutive action<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nFunding cuts and freezes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nJob cuts and staffing changes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nMAHA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nScience<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nVaccines<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n<\/h6>\n\n<\/p>\nTrump signs executive order declaring only two biological sexes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTrump orders U.S. to leave the World Health Organization.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nPresident signs more than two dozen executive orders,<\/a> including eliminating DEI programs and freezing USAID contracts and other foreign aid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nHHS pauses CDC, FDA, and NIH communications with the public<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTrump administration orders closure of all federal DEI offices, workers placed on leave.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nIn a sign of the reach of Trump\u2019s orders to eliminate DEI initiatives, the FDA removes information on ensuring clinical trials are diverse<\/a> from its website.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nMatthew Memoli, critic of Anthony Fauci, named acting NIH director<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nAdministration bars federal funding for NGOs that provide abortions;\u00a0
withdraws proposed ban on menthol cigarettes; rescinds Biden order to increase abortion access; fires federal inspectors general, including for HHS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nGrant disbursements paused to ensure they comply with executive orders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nTrump orders CDC to stop working with WHO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nResearchers reel as NIH begins terminating grants related to DEI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nServicemembers dismissed for refusal to take Covid vaccine are reinstated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nTrump signs order prohibiting federal funding for gender-affirming care to those under 19<\/a> and calls on the Justice Department to pursue litigation and legislation to stop the practice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nStates have difficulty accessing Medicaid funds<\/a> after Trump halts some federal payments. The administration moves quickly to clarify that the health program shouldn\u2019t be subject to the freeze.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nHHS secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. grilled at Senate hearings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nAdministration orders agencies to suspend programs that recognize transgender people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nFederal funding freeze temporarily prevents some postdoctoral researchers from being paid by National Science Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTrump executive orders seen as a strategy to use the threat of lost research funds as leverage<\/a> to dismantle universities\u2019 DEI programs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nThousands of government webpages taken down, including CDC databases with information on sexual orientation and gender identity<\/a>, to remove banned language.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nCDC main advisory board calls for restoration of scrubbed data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nNobel laureates decry Trump attack on science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nProfessional society for microbiologists scrubs diversity content,<\/a> angering members and showing reach of Trump executive orders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nSome NIH grant reviews resume<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nOpposition to RFK Jr.\u2019s confirmation fades, as key Republican senator acquiesces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nHHMI, nation\u2019s largest private funder of biomedical research, cancels diversity program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nNIH scraps program to diversify biomedical workforce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTrump administration announces it will cut indirect costs to universities<\/a>, capping what it pays for research overhead and administration at 15% of grant amount.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nCuts to indirect costs stayed in 22 states that filed suit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nJudge extends temporary order against cuts to indirect costs nationwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTrump policies spark fear of brain drain from U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nActing NIH Director Lawrence Tabak forced out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTrump swears in RFK Jr. as HHS secretary and signs EO creating a MAHA Commission<\/a>, with Kennedy as chair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nAdministration starts cutting LGBTQ+ grants<\/a> and flagging grants for taboo words<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTop NIH official who oversees grants departs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nAdministration starts notifying roughly 5,200 probationary health agency employees of their termination<\/a>, including drug inspectors, AI experts, and maternal health workers<\/a>. Many were informed that they were being terminated for poor performance, even though they said they had previously received only strong performance evaluations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nFunds cut for navigators who help people enroll in Affordable Care Act health plans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nTrump orders federal funding be withheld from schools requiring Covid vaccination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nTrump signs EO to expand IVF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nGraduate admissions paused or reduced at some universities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nKennedy announces new guidance specifying only two genders exist, defying biological reality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nNational Academies scrubs DEI-related language<\/a> from pending reports, drawing a letter of protest from scientists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nCDC vaccine advisory board meeting postponed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nFreeze on Federal Register listings is being used to block NIH grant funding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nTrump administration starts rehiring fired FDA workers<\/a> after pushback<\/a> from industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nSome study sections resume meeting to review grants,<\/a> but final funding decisions still in limbo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTrump executive order calls for more transparency in medical pricing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nNIH cancels internships for thousands of college students<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nA child in Texas who was unvaccinated dies during a growing measles outbreak, the first U.S. measles death in 10 years. Kennedy, a longtime critic of the measles vaccine, appeared to try to downplay the news<\/a>, saying the outbreak is \u201cnot unusual.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nFDA cancels an advisory committee meeting<\/a> on flu strains for the upcoming season\u2019s vaccine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nNew Trump plan on bird flu<\/a> focuses on economic threat caused by sick poultry rather than the pandemic threat to human health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nMore LGBTQ+ grants terminated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTop HHS spokesman, a Trump veteran, abruptly quits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nFrancis Collins, former director, retires from NIH<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nIn Fox News opinion piece, Kennedy doesn\u2019t endorse measles vaccine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nMaternal health data sources see disruption<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nRFK gives muted call for measles vaccinations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nAmid worsening measles outbreak, Kennedy embraces cod liver oil and other unconventional treatments for measles, says vaccines prevent infection but casts getting a shot as a personal decision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nJudge issues preliminary injunction blocking cuts to indirect costs<\/a>, a ruling suggesting that plaintiffs seeking to overturn the policy change are likely to eventually succeed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\n\u201cUrgent\u201d survey of CDC grant recipients, described by one as \u201can ideological litmus test,\u201d mistakenly sent to wrong email list, causing widespread confusion.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nStand Up for Science rallies held in 32 U.S. cities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTrump administration cancels $400M in grants at Columbia University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nHHS says CDC will study the debunked link between vaccines and autism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nKennedy vows to rid foods of red dyes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nHarvard physicians sue over removal of studies including the terms \u201cLGBTQ\u201d and \u201ctrans\u201d<\/a> from a government website.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nWhite House pulls nomination of Dave Weldon for CDC director<\/a> over concerns his long opposition to vaccines would imperil Senate confirmation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nAdministration cuts funding for landmark 30-year diabetes study<\/a>, apparently as a result of its cancellation of grants to Columbia University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nLongtime head of the National Human Genome Research Institute is first director of an NIH institute to leave agency<\/a> under Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nVA announces it will phase out gender-affirming care.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nMost FDA employees are required to return to in-person work<\/a>, the latest challenge for the agency\u2019s morale and retention efforts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nNIH terminates grants to study HIV prevention drug PrEP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nWhite House announces suspension of $175 million in grants to the University of Pennsylvania over a transgender athlete.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nNIH removes outside advisers who evaluate research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nSusan Monarez, a relative unknown in public health, selected to lead CDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nJay Bhattacharya confirmed as NIH director and Marty Markary confirmed as FDA commissioner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nNIH withdraws funding for studies to prevent HIV infections in teens and young adults<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nVaccine critic David Geier, who was disciplined in Maryland for practicing medicine without a license, chosen to lead a vaccine study<\/a> looking for a link to autism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nMore than $11 billion in federal grants for state and local public health programs canceled<\/a>. Money had originally been allocated for the Covid-19 response, but was now being used for disease tracking, addiction treatment, and combatting the measles outbreak in Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nNIH directs staff to identify grants or contracts that \u201cmay be related to any form of censorship,\u201d<\/a> including any involving \u201cfighting misinformation or disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nFunding for new Covid-19 treatments canceled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nPeter Marks, top FDA vaccine official, pushed out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nMore than 2,000 National Academies members call for halt on attack on science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nHHS human research ethics advisory panel disbanded<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nHHS starts reduction in force affecting as many as 10,000 employees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nFive NIH institute directors placed on leave<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nCDC division for asthma control and lead poisoning prevention eliminated<\/a>; administration says the work \u201cwill continue elsewhere at HHS.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nFDA\u2019s chief tobacco regulator and dozens of other Center for Tobacco Products employees are dismissed<\/a>, along with most of the staff of the CDC Office of Smoking and Health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nRegulatory leaders and staff across FDA are fired on commissioner Marty Makary\u2019s first official day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nHHS says it\u2019s been ordered to cut 35% of contract spending, including $2.6 billion at NIH<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p>\nTrump threatens to withhold $9 billion in federal funding for Harvard University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/p>\nAdministration says it will pause $510 million in funding to Brown University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nTrump signs executive order declaring only two biological sexes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump orders U.S. to leave the World Health Organization.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n President signs more than two dozen executive orders,<\/a> including eliminating DEI programs and freezing USAID contracts and other foreign aid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n HHS pauses CDC, FDA, and NIH communications with the public<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump administration orders closure of all federal DEI offices, workers placed on leave.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In a sign of the reach of Trump\u2019s orders to eliminate DEI initiatives, the FDA removes information on ensuring clinical trials are diverse<\/a> from its website.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Matthew Memoli, critic of Anthony Fauci, named acting NIH director<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Administration bars federal funding for NGOs that provide abortions;\u00a0 Grant disbursements paused to ensure they comply with executive orders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump orders CDC to stop working with WHO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Researchers reel as NIH begins terminating grants related to DEI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Servicemembers dismissed for refusal to take Covid vaccine are reinstated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump signs order prohibiting federal funding for gender-affirming care to those under 19<\/a> and calls on the Justice Department to pursue litigation and legislation to stop the practice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n States have difficulty accessing Medicaid funds<\/a> after Trump halts some federal payments. The administration moves quickly to clarify that the health program shouldn\u2019t be subject to the freeze.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n HHS secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. grilled at Senate hearings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Administration orders agencies to suspend programs that recognize transgender people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Federal funding freeze temporarily prevents some postdoctoral researchers from being paid by National Science Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump executive orders seen as a strategy to use the threat of lost research funds as leverage<\/a> to dismantle universities\u2019 DEI programs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Thousands of government webpages taken down, including CDC databases with information on sexual orientation and gender identity<\/a>, to remove banned language.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n CDC main advisory board calls for restoration of scrubbed data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Nobel laureates decry Trump attack on science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Professional society for microbiologists scrubs diversity content,<\/a> angering members and showing reach of Trump executive orders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Some NIH grant reviews resume<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Opposition to RFK Jr.\u2019s confirmation fades, as key Republican senator acquiesces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n HHMI, nation\u2019s largest private funder of biomedical research, cancels diversity program<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n NIH scraps program to diversify biomedical workforce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump administration announces it will cut indirect costs to universities<\/a>, capping what it pays for research overhead and administration at 15% of grant amount.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Cuts to indirect costs stayed in 22 states that filed suit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Judge extends temporary order against cuts to indirect costs nationwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump policies spark fear of brain drain from U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Acting NIH Director Lawrence Tabak forced out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump swears in RFK Jr. as HHS secretary and signs EO creating a MAHA Commission<\/a>, with Kennedy as chair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Administration starts cutting LGBTQ+ grants<\/a> and flagging grants for taboo words<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Top NIH official who oversees grants departs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Administration starts notifying roughly 5,200 probationary health agency employees of their termination<\/a>, including drug inspectors, AI experts, and maternal health workers<\/a>. Many were informed that they were being terminated for poor performance, even though they said they had previously received only strong performance evaluations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Funds cut for navigators who help people enroll in Affordable Care Act health plans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump orders federal funding be withheld from schools requiring Covid vaccination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump signs EO to expand IVF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Graduate admissions paused or reduced at some universities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Kennedy announces new guidance specifying only two genders exist, defying biological reality<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n National Academies scrubs DEI-related language<\/a> from pending reports, drawing a letter of protest from scientists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n CDC vaccine advisory board meeting postponed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Freeze on Federal Register listings is being used to block NIH grant funding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump administration starts rehiring fired FDA workers<\/a> after pushback<\/a> from industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Some study sections resume meeting to review grants,<\/a> but final funding decisions still in limbo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump executive order calls for more transparency in medical pricing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n NIH cancels internships for thousands of college students<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A child in Texas who was unvaccinated dies during a growing measles outbreak, the first U.S. measles death in 10 years. Kennedy, a longtime critic of the measles vaccine, appeared to try to downplay the news<\/a>, saying the outbreak is \u201cnot unusual.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n FDA cancels an advisory committee meeting<\/a> on flu strains for the upcoming season\u2019s vaccine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n New Trump plan on bird flu<\/a> focuses on economic threat caused by sick poultry rather than the pandemic threat to human health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n More LGBTQ+ grants terminated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Top HHS spokesman, a Trump veteran, abruptly quits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Francis Collins, former director, retires from NIH<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In Fox News opinion piece, Kennedy doesn\u2019t endorse measles vaccine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Maternal health data sources see disruption<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n RFK gives muted call for measles vaccinations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Amid worsening measles outbreak, Kennedy embraces cod liver oil and other unconventional treatments for measles, says vaccines prevent infection but casts getting a shot as a personal decision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Judge issues preliminary injunction blocking cuts to indirect costs<\/a>, a ruling suggesting that plaintiffs seeking to overturn the policy change are likely to eventually succeed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cUrgent\u201d survey of CDC grant recipients, described by one as \u201can ideological litmus test,\u201d mistakenly sent to wrong email list, causing widespread confusion.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Stand Up for Science rallies held in 32 U.S. cities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump administration cancels $400M in grants at Columbia University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n HHS says CDC will study the debunked link between vaccines and autism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Kennedy vows to rid foods of red dyes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Harvard physicians sue over removal of studies including the terms \u201cLGBTQ\u201d and \u201ctrans\u201d<\/a> from a government website.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n White House pulls nomination of Dave Weldon for CDC director<\/a> over concerns his long opposition to vaccines would imperil Senate confirmation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Administration cuts funding for landmark 30-year diabetes study<\/a>, apparently as a result of its cancellation of grants to Columbia University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Longtime head of the National Human Genome Research Institute is first director of an NIH institute to leave agency<\/a> under Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n VA announces it will phase out gender-affirming care.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Most FDA employees are required to return to in-person work<\/a>, the latest challenge for the agency\u2019s morale and retention efforts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n NIH terminates grants to study HIV prevention drug PrEP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n White House announces suspension of $175 million in grants to the University of Pennsylvania over a transgender athlete.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n NIH removes outside advisers who evaluate research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Susan Monarez, a relative unknown in public health, selected to lead CDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Jay Bhattacharya confirmed as NIH director and Marty Markary confirmed as FDA commissioner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n NIH withdraws funding for studies to prevent HIV infections in teens and young adults<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Vaccine critic David Geier, who was disciplined in Maryland for practicing medicine without a license, chosen to lead a vaccine study<\/a> looking for a link to autism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n More than $11 billion in federal grants for state and local public health programs canceled<\/a>. Money had originally been allocated for the Covid-19 response, but was now being used for disease tracking, addiction treatment, and combatting the measles outbreak in Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n NIH directs staff to identify grants or contracts that \u201cmay be related to any form of censorship,\u201d<\/a> including any involving \u201cfighting misinformation or disinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Funding for new Covid-19 treatments canceled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Peter Marks, top FDA vaccine official, pushed out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n More than 2,000 National Academies members call for halt on attack on science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n HHS human research ethics advisory panel disbanded<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n HHS starts reduction in force affecting as many as 10,000 employees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Five NIH institute directors placed on leave<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n CDC division for asthma control and lead poisoning prevention eliminated<\/a>; administration says the work \u201cwill continue elsewhere at HHS.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n FDA\u2019s chief tobacco regulator and dozens of other Center for Tobacco Products employees are dismissed<\/a>, along with most of the staff of the CDC Office of Smoking and Health.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Regulatory leaders and staff across FDA are fired on commissioner Marty Makary\u2019s first official day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n HHS says it\u2019s been ordered to cut 35% of contract spending, including $2.6 billion at NIH<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump threatens to withhold $9 billion in federal funding for Harvard University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Administration says it will pause $510 million in funding to Brown University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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