{"id":22383,"date":"2025-02-18T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22383"},"modified":"2025-02-18T08:24:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T08:24:58","slug":"trump-cuts-target-next-generation-of-scientists-and-public-health-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22383","title":{"rendered":"Trump Cuts Target Next Generation of Scientists and Public Health Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out of jobs.<\/p>\n

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The notices came all weekend, landing in the inboxes of federal scientists, doctors and public health professionals: Your work is no longer needed.<\/p>\n

At the National Institutes of Health, the nation\u2019s premier biomedical research agency, an estimated 1,200 employees \u2014 including promising young investigators slated for larger roles \u2014 have been dismissed.<\/p>\n

At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, two prestigious training programs were gutted: one that embeds recent public health graduates in local health departments and another to cultivate the next generation of Ph.D. laboratory scientists. But the agency\u2019s Epidemic Intelligence Service \u2014 the \u201cdisease detectives\u201d who track outbreaks around the world \u2014 has apparently been spared, perhaps because of an uproar among alumni after a majority of its members were told on Friday that they would be let go.<\/p>\n

President Trump\u2019s plan to shrink the size of the federal work force dealt blows to thousands of civil servants in the past few days. But the cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services \u2014 coming on the heels of the coronavirus pandemic, the worst public health crisis in a century \u2014 have been especially jarring. Experts say the firings threaten to leave the country exposed to further shortages of health workers, putting Americans at risk if another crisis erupts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Public health officials, for instance, have been tracking a lethal strain of bird flu that they say remains a low risk to Americans. In recent weeks, however, it claimed its first victim in the United States<\/a> \u2014 a patient in Louisiana who had been exposed to a backyard flock.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not canceled,\u201d Elon Musk, the billionaire in charge of the downsizing, wrote on social media in response to the blowback about the purported dismantling of the Epidemic Intelligence Service.<\/p>\n

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A core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out of jobs.The notices came all weekend, landing in the inboxes of federal scientists, doctors and public health professionals: Your work is no longer needed.At the National Institutes of Health, the nation\u2019s premier biomedical research agency, an estimated 1,200 employees \u2014 including promising young investigators slated for larger roles \u2014 have been dismissed.At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, two prestigious training programs were gutted: one that embeds recent public health graduates in local health departments and another to cultivate the next generation of Ph.D. laboratory scientists. But the agency\u2019s Epidemic Intelligence Service \u2014 the \u201cdisease detectives\u201d who track outbreaks around the world \u2014 has apparently been spared, perhaps because of an uproar among alumni after a majority of its members were told on Friday that they would be let go.President Trump\u2019s plan to shrink the size of the federal work force dealt blows to thousands of civil servants in the past few days. But the cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services \u2014 coming on the heels of the coronavirus pandemic, the worst public health crisis in a century \u2014 have been especially jarring. Experts say the firings threaten to leave the country exposed to further shortages of health workers, putting Americans at risk if another crisis erupts.Public health officials, for instance, have been tracking a lethal strain of bird flu that they say remains a low risk to Americans. In recent weeks, however, it claimed its first victim in the United States \u2014 a patient in Louisiana who had been exposed to a backyard flock.\u201cIt\u2019s not canceled,\u201d Elon Musk, the billionaire in charge of the downsizing, wrote on social media in response to the blowback about the purported dismantling of the Epidemic Intelligence Service.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22385,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22386,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22383\/revisions\/22386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}