In this era of the administration taking down public data, cutting funding for staff who collect and share critical data about public health and disease surveillance, support for data related efforts feels like the main way our team can do our part. Stay strong folks and keep fighting.

The recent onslaught of uncertainty, the slashing of important funding, and the sweeping cuts to critical government staffing directly impact our country’s public health systems, access to medical care and biomedical research puts our foundational components to our health infrastructure at risk.

Washington: In 2024, 2 schools received more than $10 million in grants for a total of $617 million. Of that, $397 million went directly to research and $220 went to facilities and administration. The new rate would bring that to $60 million, a loss of $160 million.