The National Institute of Health will no longer finance the work on climatic changes in health care, according to internal records, considered propublica.
Last week, a leadership that was distributed by several employees goes to the back of several new NIH funding directives on grants focused on subjects that are considered as conflicting priorities of Trump’s administration, for example, Gender Identity. LGBTQ+ problems. Vaccine hesitationand Diversity, justice and inclusion.
Although it is unclear whether the climatic indications of active grants will affect and lead to stopping funding, the directive will stop the possibilities for future research financing or academic programs focused on the consequences of climate change in health.
“This is an administration in which industry voices control and prevail,” said Dr. Lisa Patel, Executive Director of the Consortium of the Medical Climate and Health Society, coalition of healthcare professionals, which increases consciousness about the consequences of health climate. “This is the point of fossil fuel industry, and this administration does what the fossil fuel industry wants.”
She called the new leadership “catastrophic” and said it would be “devastating” influence on the necessary research.
Because extreme meteorological events, such as hurricanes, thermal waves, fires and floods, continue to intensify and become more frequent, researchers are increasingly exploring the impact of climatic changes on the health of the population. NIH, which provides billions of dollars annually for biomedical research across the country, is funded Hundreds of grants and programs In recent years, he has been devoted to the study of this issue.
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In 2021, under President Joe Biden, Agency launched the initiative to change climates and healthcare to further coordinate and encourage greater research and learning. The initiative received 40 million dollars Applauded in Congress for research and in 2023 and 2024. However last month’s initiative and two more like NIH Programs dedicated to climate change and health have been dismantledAccording to reporting from Jones’s mother.
The latest directive reduces all future climate changes and health financing in the agency, regardless of its connection with the previously canceled initiative.
In response to the propublica questions regarding the directive, the press secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services said the agency “takes measures to stop funding for research, which does not meet the priority of NIH and HHS”.
“In HHS, we are devoted to the restoration of our agencies in their tradition to maintain gold-based science based on facts,” the spokesman said. “When we begin to make America healthy again, it is important to put priorities that directly affect the health of the Americans. We will not leave the stone, the detected cause of the root cause of the chronic illness as part of our mission to make America healthy again.”
Climate and health researchers faced hostility during the first Presidential Administration Donald Trump, but were able to continue their work, according to Linda Birnbaum, a former director of the National Institute for Environmental Protection, who worked as a federal scientist for four decades.
“Under Trump One, we scratched the word” change “from our work and talked about” climate “and” health “, and it was acceptable,” she said. “If the NIH does not study the health climate, we will not be able to prevent some of these health impacts and we will not be able to find ways to deal with them.”
In A Report from DecemberNIH has listed numerous constant climate and health projects that this is funding, including research to study the health of Maui Forest Fires in Hawaii, develop models for predicting dengue transmission by mosquitoes and study the influence of heat on fertility and reproductive functions. Trump administration has since pulling out Report in offline mode.
“We see how our own eyes see how strong the heat and extreme weather are harming the health of people,” said Vienna single, associate professor at the Department of Postman in the field of health of Colombian University.
The new NIH directive goes on the broader agenda of Trump administration Bowel efforts on documentation and referral Climate change. Trump has stopped billions of dollars Costs for climates. Has it too Issued executive orders aimed at increasing the production of fossil fuels and scale the government’s efforts to combat climate change.
Its administration also considers the plan to eliminate the scientific research of the environmental protection agency, which can lead to firing more than 1000 scientists, reports The New York Times. Some scientists in this office also investigated Climate effects in healthcareInvestigation of issues such as fever can change the body’s response to air pollution and as climate change affects the amount of toxic chemicals in the air and water.
The NIH and the White House did not respond to PROPBLICA’s request. The EPA did not answer questions about whether climate change and health will continue. In response to the questions of the propublica press, the EPA press service wrote that “Trump EPA is devoted to head our commitment to the main mission of the human and environment agency, unlike the assigned Biden EPA with major ethical issues that were recognized by radical groups.”
Trump’s prospect for climate change appears to disagree that his health secretary Robert F. Kennedy -Jello, who spent decades as an environment lawyer. “I believe the climatic crisis is true, that people cause it that it is existentially,” he said In an interview last year. HHS did not answer the propublica questions to the secretary’s views.
However, the pan said Propublica that she did not expect a new health secretary, whose mandate controls NIH, supports the views that diverged from the administration’s agenda.
“What we can easily see from things that RFK Jr. allows you to happen and does not want to weigh, it will not be an anti-industrial voice,” she said. “It is not to monitor the best science.”
