The White House proposed sweeping changes to the regulations governing all federal contracts and scientific grants, expanding executive power to direct research, terminate grants at will, and override external scientific review. CDC leadership remains in disarray, as two health nominees stumbled in Senate hearings and the agency struggles to respond to a cyclospora outbreak. RFK Jr. announced plans for a COVID vaccine injury list, while a CDC vaccine study that had been blocked was published anyway. USAID cuts continue to draw scrutiny over child deaths despite administration denials. Obamacare enrollment has dropped sharply following passage of the Big Beautiful Bill, per new federal data. The US voted against a UN HIV/AIDS declaration but awarded multimillion-dollar grants to two food aid organizations.

 

Resources

Advocacy and Mobilization

• Alliance members BCG, CUGH (here and here), DNDi (here and here), FHI 360 (here and here), For Our Health (here and here), Friends of the Global Fight (here and here), GAIA (here and here), Gavi (here and here), Gilead Sciences (here and here), Global Health Corps (here and here), Global Health Council (here and here), Global Health Technologies Coalition (here and here), IDEO.org (here and here), inSupply Health, JSI (here and here), Maya Health Alliance | Wuqu’ Kawoq, MedShare, Nexleaf Analytics (here and here), North Carolina Global Health Alliance (here and here), PATH (here and here), Pathfinder (here and here), Population Services International (here and here), Public Health Institute (here and here), ReSurge International, Roche, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Seed Global Health (here and here), Stanford (here and here), UC Berkeley (here and here), UC Davis, UCGHI, UCSF (here and here), UNICEF (here and here), USA for UNFPA (here and here), Vital Strategies (here and here), WomenLift Health, and Zenysis have spoken with the press or issued statements.
• Find and Contact Your Representatives: U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. Here is a list of key decision makers in Congress, their contact information, as well as sample language to consider.

Navigating the Legal Questions and Resources for Workers

• Humentum offers resources for navigating the foreign assistance pause.
• Connective Impact has launched an open-source resource document in response to the U.S. foreign aid policy shifts.
• Devex has summarized 5 rapid response funds for organizations affected by the US aid freeze.
• Just Security has a Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions.
• Tech Change is sharing a job board and resource curation for those impacted.
• Other job opportunities sites include: Philanthropy News Digest, Idealist.org, WorkforGOOD, FastForward, Reconsidered, The Impact Job, ExecSearches.com, and Foundationlist.org.
• Find a Job I Devex
• Nonprofit Jobs | Work for Good
• The Pivot Playbook
• Find and Fund Defunded Global Health Grants: database of defunded NIH global health research projects seeking support
• Founders Pledge: Nonprofit organization that works to bridge the gap between entrepreneurs and charities making impact in the world
• Fired but Fighting, a Coalition of Fired HHS Employees and Allies

Tracking Impact

• GHTC’s Innovation Interrupted: an interactive tool that documents a selection of global health research efforts and illustrates the scientific, economic, and human impacts
• Foreign Assistance Tracker
• Fogarty International Center: Fogarty’s Impact in the US | Fogarty’s Impact in Facts, Numbers, and Stories | NIH-funded Global Scientific Advances Can Benefit the American Public
• US Global Leadership Coalition: How Shrinking America’s International Assistance Damages U.S. National Security, Economic, and Humanitarian Interests
• KFF’s Analysis of US and Global Fund Funding Reductions in MOU Countries
• Unlock Aid’s Solutions Index: a reference tool for donors, policymakers, and partners seeking the most promising organizations delivering results across global health, food security, nutrition, and other sectors
• Summer Book Club Exploring Reimagining Global Health [Mike Reid and Eric Goosby]
• A Shock to the System: Global Health After U.S. Aid Cuts [May 2026]
• Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Update [March 2026]
• Center for Global Development | Who Is Getting New US Foreign Assistance Contracts and Awards?
• Devex | The Aid Report
• The State Department Is Asking the World for New Global Health Ideas [Jirair Ratevosian]
• Health Security Policy Academy: U.S. Global Health Spending Watch
• The Impact Metrics Dashboard (Boston University) visualizes the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations. The site has an impact tracker for PEPFAR, tuberculosis (TB), and Medicaid and is looking for additional collaborators. Read more.
• GHTC tracks how US investments in global health R&D are paying economic and health dividends in each state. (Learn more)
• Also see Center for Global Development I How Many Lives Does US Foreign Aid Save?
• KFF has a new series of fact sheets on the status of U.S. global health aid cuts, from maternal and child health to TB and malaria, and fact sheets on global health program impact.
• KFF also has an overview of President Trump’s executive actions on global health and a timeline of events that provides a detailed overview of actions (and counter-actions) related to the administration’s efforts to freeze all U.S. foreign aid and dissolve USAID.
• Grant Watch’s Weekly Terminated NIH Grants Report presents an overview of recent trends in NIH grant terminations, reinstatements, new grant initiations, and continuations.
• Emory Rollins Public Health has shared data showing the impact of public health cuts.
• Devex Court Watch: The latest on the USAID docket
• Devex ‘The Trump Effect’, highlighting the latest news, in-depth analysis, and exclusive insights on how the Trump administration’s policies are reshaping global development.
• Gates Foundation I Health Aid Saves Lives. Don’t Cut It, provides an aggregation of US aid cut impacts
• ProPublica I Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies
• Verified and Vetted Science Accounts to Start Following for Public Health Accuracy [Cate Russel]
• State of Disunion: The Impact of Us Funding Cuts on Global Health R&D
• NEJM I Health and Medical Research Funding in a Divided America — How to Increase Support
• STAT+ | Tracking RFK Jr.’s Promises to Remake Health in America
• KFF: U.S. Global Health Country-Level Funding Tracker

 

Sources

• CNN | Trump’s Funding Cuts Created ‘The Perfect Storm’ That Slowed the Government’s Cyclosporiasis Response 
• STAT | HHS Vaccine Committee Quietly Gets New Charter
• Axios | FDA Still Experiencing Attrition (Story #2)

• Inside Medicine | These Guys Did a Good Thing on Vaccines Recently. It’s Important That We Acknowledge It.
• NPR | Trump’s Team Says ‘No Children’ Died from USAID Cuts. Consider These 3 Cases
• Science | Trump Administration Ends Dozens of Grants for Studying Patient Care
• CIDRAP | Federal Health Agencies Say They Need a Big Funding Bump to Prepare for Future Emergencies

• Devex Pro | US Announces 2 Multimillion-Dollar Awards for Emergency Food Aid
• Inside Medicine | She Blew It. CDC Director Nominee Tanks in Senate Hearing.
• CIDRAP | ‘Why Would You Repeat the Damn Lies?’ Cassidy Asks Health Security Nominee about Vaccines

• Inside Medicine | Top Trump Official Out at CDC. Agency Now without Chief of Staff or Acting Director.
• Reuters | UCSF: Inside RFK Jr.’s Push to Dismantle Decades of US Vaccine Policy
• MedPage Today | Senator Accuses RFK Jr. of Election Interference
• Tobacco-Free Kids | Public Health Groups, Pediatricians and Parents Sue FDA Over Policy Allowing the Marketing of Unauthorized E-Cigarettes and Nicotine Pouches

• NPR | Trump’s HHS Abandons Threat to Withhold Medicare and Medicaid Funding over Trans Care
• The Hill | Appeals Court Revives Lawsuits Claiming Link between Acetaminophen, ADHD and Autism

• STAT+ | RFK Jr. Plans to Create List of Injuries Caused by COVID-19 Vaccines
• STAT | Trump Administration Pursues More Durable Changes to Science Policy After Setbacks in Court

• AP News | Obamacare Rolls Shrank Dramatically in Many States over the Past Year, New Federal Data Shows

• STAT+ | Merck: Facing a Brutal Run, Battered Vaccine Makers Still See Cause for Hope

• Health Policy Watch | US and Russia Vote Against UN Political Declaration on HIV/ AIDS

• Washington Post | CDC’s Chief Blocked a COVID Vaccine Study. Now It’s in a Top Medical Journal.
• Reuters | Construction of US-Backed Ebola Facility in Kenya Halted, Minister Says

• STAT | Health Equity Researchers Fear Unseen Level of Scrutiny under White House Proposal
• STAT | Trump Administration Targets Disability Integration Mandate in DOJ Memo
• Reuters | US Judge Blocks Trump Administration Snap Restrictions on Soda, Candy​
• ProPublica | Friends of the Global Fight: “A Huge Grab of Power”: Trump Is Defying Congress on Foreign Aid