The abrupt decision by the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) to slash funding for overheads to the nation’s research centers and universities has provoked a fresh outcry among leading US researchers, global health experts and even some Republican politicians – with leading one expert saying this latest move could “seriously jeopardize” the US’s global dominance in biomedical research and innovation.
“If the Trump administration goes ahead with its plan to slash NIH research funding, it would seriously jeopardize the standing of the US worldwide,” said Lawrence Gostin, Distinguished University Professor in Global Health Law at Georgetown University, in a statement to Health Policy Watch.
Similar reactions echoed across the research world after NIH’s Friday announcement cutting grants to research institutions for their “indirect costs” – which include expensive laboratory equipment and technologies vital to cutting edge research. The cuts to biomedical research investments followed a shock list of recent Trump measures to drastically curtail the public health watchdog activities of the US Centers for Disease Control, as well as dismantle USAID and related global health programs.
Read the full story at Health Policy Watch.
Source : Health Policy Watch
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