Trump administration agrees to drop anti-DEI criteria for stalled health research grants

Trump administration agrees to drop anti-DEI criteria for stalled health research grants

The James H. Shannon Building (Building One), on the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland. (Photo by Lydia Polimeni,/National Institutes of Health)The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities without using its controversial standards that discouraged gender, race and sexual orientation initiatives and vaccine research. In a settlement agreement filed in Massachusetts federal court Monday, the National …

Attorney General Brown announces agreement with Trump administration preventing further delays in public health research

BALTIMORE, MD—Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown has announced a settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to end what was described as the unlawful delay of critical medical and public health research grants. The agreement follows a lawsuit filed in April by a coalition of 16 attorneys general challenging the Trump administration’s intentional delays in reviewing grant applications from the National Inst…