Recent directives from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., reveal a shifting focus away from research on the health effects of climate change. The National Institutes of Health (N.I.H.) has stated it will stop funding studies on climate-related health issues including cardiovascular health and pregnancy affected by disasters. This policy change also extends to topics like gender identity and vaccine hesitancy, forcing researchers to conform their applications to new priorities, thereby drastically limiting critical research into climate change and its broad health impacts.
The National Institutes of Health has changed its policy to deprioritize climate change health effects research, impacting understanding of disasters on cardiovascular health and pregnancy.
Under the new guidance from the H.H.S., N.I.H. will not fund research on climate change, gender identity, or vaccine hesitancy, altering the research landscape.
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