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The N.I.H. has indicated that it will stop funding research on the topic. Scientists said that would make it harder to protect people.<\/p>\n

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With frequent and severe disasters repeatedly underscoring the dangers of climate change, scientists across the country have been working to understand the consequences for our hearts, lungs, brains and more \u2014 and how to best mitigate them.<\/p>\n

The work has relied largely on hundreds of millions of dollars in grants from the National Institutes of Health, a federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. But since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took charge of H.H.S., the Trump administration has indicated that it will stop funding research on the health effects of climate change.<\/p>\n

The N.I.H. said in an internal document obtained by The New York Times that it was the agency\u2019s new policy \u201cnot to prioritize\u201d research related to climate change. The document also described the organization\u2019s intent not to fund research on gender identity, vaccine hesitancy or diversity, equity and inclusion. N.I.H. employees were instructed to tell researchers to \u201cremove all\u201d mention of the topics and resubmit their applications, even if the main focus was unrelated.<\/p>\n

The policy shift on climate change, first reported by ProPublica<\/a>, stands to drastically limit U.S.-based research into its health effects, which tries to answer questions like whether events like wildfires and heat waves can affect cardiovascular health and pregnancy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A spokeswoman for H.H.S. said in a statement that the agency was \u201ctaking action to terminate research funding that is not aligned with N.I.H. and H.H.S. priorities.\u201d Later, an N.I.H. spokeswoman sent a statement with slightly different wording, saying the agency was \u201ctaking action to review, and in some cases freeze or terminate\u201d funding.<\/p>\n

Both spokeswomen said the N.I.H. and H.H.S. were prioritizing research that they believed \u201cdirectly affects the health of Americans\u201d and was in line with the \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d agenda. That includes studying the causes of chronic disease, a focus of Mr. Kennedy\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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The N.I.H. has indicated that it will stop funding research on the topic. Scientists said that would make it harder to protect people.With frequent and severe disasters repeatedly underscoring the dangers of climate change, scientists across the country have been working to understand the consequences for our hearts, lungs, brains and more \u2014 and how to best mitigate them.The work has relied largely on hundreds of millions of dollars in grants from the National Institutes of Health, a federal agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. But since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took charge of H.H.S., the Trump administration has indicated that it will stop funding research on the health effects of climate change.The N.I.H. said in an internal document obtained by The New York Times that it was the agency\u2019s new policy \u201cnot to prioritize\u201d research related to climate change. The document also described the organization\u2019s intent not to fund research on gender identity, vaccine hesitancy or diversity, equity and inclusion. N.I.H. employees were instructed to tell researchers to \u201cremove all\u201d mention of the topics and resubmit their applications, even if the main focus was unrelated.The policy shift on climate change, first reported by ProPublica, stands to drastically limit U.S.-based research into its health effects, which tries to answer questions like whether events like wildfires and heat waves can affect cardiovascular health and pregnancy.A spokeswoman for H.H.S. said in a statement that the agency was \u201ctaking action to terminate research funding that is not aligned with N.I.H. and H.H.S. priorities.\u201d Later, an N.I.H. spokeswoman sent a statement with slightly different wording, saying the agency was \u201ctaking action to review, and in some cases freeze or terminate\u201d funding.Both spokeswomen said the N.I.H. and H.H.S. were prioritizing research that they believed \u201cdirectly affects the health of Americans\u201d and was in line with the \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d agenda. That includes studying the causes of chronic disease, a focus of Mr. Kennedy\u2019s.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":26163,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26161","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=26161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26164,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26161\/revisions\/26164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}