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April 8, 2025
SPH This Week.
SPECIAL EDITION | FUNDING IMPACTS
Our Health Depends on Federal Research Funding
In the articles and videos below, SPH researchers call attention to the immediate and long-term effects of the federal government’s decision to curtail this funding, as the consequences continue to unfold.
With federal research funding cuts looming for academia and medical centers across the US, we take a look at how federally funded research at SPH has produced tangible results that benefit real lives in real communities. Read More.
In a new commentary in The Milbank Quarterly, Michael Stein discusses how federal funding cuts to academia will stymie research that aims to improve health systems and make healthcare more accessible, affordable, and equitable for all. Read more.
As federal research funding cuts decimate the US scientific enterprise, the dissolution of the longstanding partnership between the federal government and research institutions will jeopardize real lives across the globe for generations to come.
Devastating Outcomes
Since January 20, 2025, the slashing of research funding, local public health funding, and US foreign aid have severely disrupted the lives of populations at home and abroad who rely on this funding for disease screening and treatment, as well as nutrition assistance and other vital public health services.
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total freeze in US foreign aid funding and programming. Learn more.
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I wanted to know the true cost of all of these actions. It’s human lives. This is not for political gain, this is about the lives of actual mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and kids.
BROOKE NICHOLS
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF GLOBAL HEALTH
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Media Coverage
BOSTON GLOBE
Quotes Megan Cole, associate professor of health law, policy & management.
BOSTON GLOBE
Article written by Katherine O’Malley, policy analyst in the Department of Health Law, Policy & Management.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Quotes Matthew Motta, assistant professor of health law, policy & management.
BOSTON GLOBE
Mentions research by Jonathan Levy, chair and professor of environmental health.
BLOOMBERG LAW
Quotes Nicole Huberfeld, Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law.
BOSTON GLOBE
Quotes Harold Cox, professor of the practice in the Department of Community Health Sciences.
Loss of Vital Data and Services
“What gets measured, gets managed”: Data is essential for efficiency, as this well-known phrase suggests. But as a result of the presidential administration’s actions, decades-old, critical health datasets and services are vanishing.
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