Over the past month, the Office of Management and Budget proposed a new rule that would change how federal grants are awarded. Instead of scientific peer reviewers, political appointees would make funding decisions, and grants could be canceled mid-study; the public comment period runs until July 13. Among other US government moves, Trump ordered federal agencies to align their policies behind an HHS study recommending fewer childhood vaccines; more than half of the NIH’s 27 institutes are being run by acting directors; and $10 million in aid-purchased contraceptives have been ordered to stay in storage rather than be distributed. Encouragingly, Washington has re-engaged with Gavi on malaria and Ebola and directed roughly $1 billion to UNICEF and the World Food Programme.
Resources
Advocacy and Mobilization
- Alliance members BCG, CUGH (here and here), DNDi, 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, 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
- Foreign Assistance Tracker
- 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
June 18, 2026
- Devex | FHI 360, UNICEF: US Funnels $1B to UNICEF & WFP in Latest Humanitarian Funding Push
- STAT+ | Senate Democrats Demand HHS Provide Records on Federal Vaccine Policy
- Reuters | Trump Administration Asks Appeals Court to Let Kennedy Pick Vaccine Panel Members
June 17, 2026
- Washington Post | Inside the Push to Keep RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Alive
- STAT | RFK Jr. Presents $700 Million in Mental Health Funding, but Experts Say Grants Aren’t New
- Think Global Health | Friends of the Global Fight: Opinion | Securing Sustainable Funding for Civil Society Organizations
June 16, 2026
June 15, 2026
- The Hill | Trump Admin Paying Thousands of Dollars per Month to Store Ruined USAID Contraceptives
- NEJM | The OMB and the Politicization of Science
June 11, 2026
- STAT+ | Scientists See Promise in NIH Proposal to Cap Number of Grants They Receive
- Devex | UCSF: Opinion | What Johnny Figueroa’s Nomination Means for PEPFAR’s Future
June 10, 2026
- Your Local Epidemiologist | New OMB Rule Could Break Science in the United States
- KFF | Analysis of U.S. and Global Fund Funding Reductions in MOU Countries
- STAT | OB-GYN Association, Deviating from CDC Guidance, Issues Its Own Vaccine Recommendations
- SF Chronicle | UC Davis: Trump DOJ Targets UC Davis Medical School Admissions Practices
- Reuters | Ebola Testing Stalled in Three Congo Labs Due to Shortages, Says WHO
- The Conversation | How Cuts to CDC Are Dismantling Its Capacity to Protect Americans’ Health
June 9, 2026
- STAT | Alcohol Study Discarded by Trump Officials Is Published in Scientific Journal
- The Independent | Trump Administration Refuses to Distribute up to $10M in Contraceptives Bought as Aid: ‘It’s as Simple as That’
June 8, 2026
- New York Times | Kennedy Shows Minimal Engagement With Vast Health Portfolio
- Reuters | Gavi Plans to Use US Cash for Malaria, While Meeting Kennedy’s Conditions
June 6, 2026
June 5, 2026
- STAT | Tiny HHS Office Tasked with Protecting Research Participants’ Safety Is Running on Fumes
- MedPage Today | Senator Cassidy Calls Out RFK Jr.
- New York Times | Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
- Devex | Ask the Experts: Marco Rubio on the Record
June 4, 2026
- Devex | Rubio Slams USAID, Refutes Numbers of Children Dead from Cuts
- KFF Health News | RFK Jr. Seeks To Peek at Americans’ Medical Records for Clues on Autism and Vaccines
- The Guardian | Three Studies Used by RFK Jr and Allies to Justify Controversial Vaccine Policy Changes Facing New Scrutiny
June 3, 2026
- STAT+ | NIH Cuts Weakened Network Primed to Respond to Outbreaks like Ebola
- Devex | White House May Appoint Ebola Lead, Rubio Tells Lawmakers
- STAT+ | Trump Administration to Strip Job Protections of Top NIH Officials, Grants Staff
- New York Times | Opinion: This Is Why You Don’t Slash Humanitarian Aid
June 2, 2026
- Reuters | Gavi: US to Re-Engage with Gavi amid Ebola Outbreak, Rubio Says
- New York Times | White House Seeks to Impose Political Test on Billions in Federal Grants
June 1, 2026
- STAT+ | Trump Administration Releases Rules for New Medicaid Work Requirements
- Axios | Plan to Overhaul Grantmaking Shakes Researchers
May 30, 2026
May 29, 2026
May 28, 2026
- Reuters | US FDA Advisers Vote in Favor of Recommending Covid Vaccines Target XFG Variant
- Devex | Pledges for Ebola Outbreak Drastically Plunge, Says Africa CDC Chief
May 27, 2026
May 26, 2026
- CNN | Trump Admin Shutting Key US Researchers Out of Global Virus Response Talks, Documents and Sources Reveal
- STAT | Opinion: 8 Former CDC Directors: Reform PEPFAR, Don’t Dismantle It
May 22, 2026
May 21, 2026
- KFF | Is The U.S. Stepping Up In The Fight Against Ebola?
- STAT+ | 3 Burning Questions Senators Had for the NIH Director
- STAT+ | Acting Head of NIH’s Infectious Disease Institute Reported to Have Stepped Down
May 20, 2026
- New York Times | Efforts to Contain Ebola May Have Been Hindered by Lack of U.S. Involvement
- STAT+ | Kennedy Fires Two Leaders on Preventive Services Task Force
- STAT | NIH Behind in Filling Top Roles, with 15 of 27 Institutes Led by Acting Directors
- The Hill | GOP House Rep’s Wife to Temporarily Serve as Surgeon General
- Science | US Researchers Face New Restrictions on Publishing with Foreign Collaborators
May 19, 2026
- NPR | Steep Drop in Number of People with Affordable Care Act Health Coverage, Analysis Finds
- STAT | Trump’s Cuts to Foreign Aid Are Undermining the Ebola Response, Insiders Say
- CSIS | CDC Director’s Nomination Is an Opportunity to Reconstitute the CDC
- Devex | Democrats Demand Answers on USAID Closeout Process
May 18, 2026
- Axios | Cassidy Defeat May Complicate Filling Health Vacancies
- The Hill | HHS Withdraws Amended Vaccine Advisory Panel Charter
- New York Times | UNICEF: Catastrophe Is Emerging in the World’s Most Vulnerable Places
- Reuters | US States Reject Anti-vaccine Bills as Public Health Groups Fight MAHA
- The 19th | The Word ‘Black’ Has Disappeared from a Set of Bills Aimed at Addressing Black Maternal Health
May 15, 2026
- STAT+ | FDA Leadership Shakeup Widens Following Makary’s Departure
- Politico | RFK Jr.’s Department to Make It Easier to Fire Career Staff
May 14, 2026
- Devex | Trump Administration to Announce $1.5B in New Humanitarian Aid
- NBC News | Supreme Court Allows Abortion Pill to Remain Available by Mail Nationwide
- New York Times | Opinion: Another Trump Appointee Learns It’s Easier to Be a Critic Than a Leader
May 13, 2026
- New York Times | Top Kennedy Spokesman Resigns in Protest of Move to Allow Flavored Vapes
- The Hill | White House Threatens to Withhold Medicaid Money from States over Fraud
May 12, 2026
- STAT+ | Makary Departs FDA amid Turmoil as Diamantas, Agency’s Top Food Official, Steps In
- Huffington Post | Experts Stress Trump’s CDC Is ‘Not Sufficiently Responding’ To Hantavirus. Here’s What Info You Can Actually Trust.
May 11, 2026
May 9, 2026
- New York Times | Gavi: Opinion | This Is What Happened When Trump Abandoned the World’s Poorest Children
- AP News | Experts Wonder ‘Where Is the CDC?’ as a Hantavirus Outbreak Unfolds on a Cruise Ship
May 8, 2026
May 7, 2026
- Devex | Gavi: US Lawmakers Push Back as Trump Administration Blocks $600M
- CNN | The Trump Administration Is Trying to Divert $2 Billion in Global Health Funding to Pay for USAID Shutdown
- New York Times | Hantavirus Response Shows How Trump Cuts Have Compromised U.S. Preparedness
May 6, 2026
- KFF | Health Tracking Poll: MAHA and the Midterms
- STAT | Why the FDA Is Authorizing Fruit-Flavored Vapes
- Think Global Health | UCSF: As Defunded HIV Programs Thin, Uneven Resilience Emerges
May 5, 2026
- The Guardian | UCSF: FDA Blocked Studies Finding COVID and Shingles Vaccines Safe, HHS Official Says
- Reuters | FDA Authorizes First Fruit-Flavored E-cigarettes in the US amid Political Pressure
- NOTUS | FDA Chief Marty Makary Is on ‘Thin Ice’ With the White House
- Science | CDC Leader Calls for New Journal to ‘Elevate Scientific Rigor’
May 4, 2026
- STAT | Immigration Changes Are Driving Foreign Researchers to Leave the US — Or Not Come to Begin With
- Healthcare Dive | DOJ Launches Strike Force Targeting West Coast Healthcare Fraud
- New York Times | Kennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Antidepressants
May 3, 2026