Mary Wilson
Well-known member
February 08, 2025
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(25)00237-5
The Lancet
Withdrawal from WHO and the Paris Agreements. USAID shuttered and aid halted, ceasing health programmes globally. A freeze on US$3 trillion worth of federal grants and loans, jeopardising the functioning of Medicaid. A sweeping pause on key activities across the National Institutes of Health (the world's largest biomedical research institution). Stop work orders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Denial of gender diversity. The Mexico City policy reinstated. Communications blackouts, which saw the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report not published for the first time in 60 years. Donald Trump's actions domestically and globally are not a measured reappraisal of US priorities. They are a sweeping and damaging attack on the health of the American people and those dependent on US foreign assistance.
They are also an attack on the health and medical research community. Researchers’ ability to work has been severely limited or stopped altogether. Free speech is restricted. Use of certain terms is banned on US Government websites (and in manuscripts submitted to scientific journals), including “gender”, “transgender”, “LGBT”, and “non-binary”, and a directive has paused the submission of new work for publication for all CDC employees and contractors. At The Lancet, the impact has already been felt. Reviewers are declining and authors are self-censoring. Health institutions may be hesitant to criticise the new administration publicly, but this timidity is a mistake. ...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00237-5/fulltext
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(25)00237-5
The Lancet
Withdrawal from WHO and the Paris Agreements. USAID shuttered and aid halted, ceasing health programmes globally. A freeze on US$3 trillion worth of federal grants and loans, jeopardising the functioning of Medicaid. A sweeping pause on key activities across the National Institutes of Health (the world's largest biomedical research institution). Stop work orders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Denial of gender diversity. The Mexico City policy reinstated. Communications blackouts, which saw the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report not published for the first time in 60 years. Donald Trump's actions domestically and globally are not a measured reappraisal of US priorities. They are a sweeping and damaging attack on the health of the American people and those dependent on US foreign assistance.
They are also an attack on the health and medical research community. Researchers’ ability to work has been severely limited or stopped altogether. Free speech is restricted. Use of certain terms is banned on US Government websites (and in manuscripts submitted to scientific journals), including “gender”, “transgender”, “LGBT”, and “non-binary”, and a directive has paused the submission of new work for publication for all CDC employees and contractors. At The Lancet, the impact has already been felt. Reviewers are declining and authors are self-censoring. Health institutions may be hesitant to criticise the new administration publicly, but this timidity is a mistake. ...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00237-5/fulltext
