Since our USG April update, disruptions and cuts to global health continue. Our recap will be brief this month, but our reading list is long for more details. A few highlights:

President’s Budget Request

• On May 2, the White House released its FY26 budget request, calling for up to a 47.7% cut to State and international programs and the rescission of an additional $20 billion — amounting to an estimated 84% reduction in the foreign affairs budget. Global health faces some of the steepest cuts, despite broad bipartisan support. The U.S., the world’s largest global health donor at $12.3 billion in 2024, would see that funding halved, with the administration citing abortion concerns — despite a decades-old legal ban on using foreign aid for abortion services. While antiretroviral treatment for current PEPFAR beneficiaries is preserved, funding for prevention, testing, and broader HIV services remains unclear. The budget also proposes cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Two budget proposal beneficiaries are the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), set to receive nearly $3 billion in additional funding, and the World Bank’s International Development Association, which is slated for $3.2 billion over three years. The budget still has a ways to go and additional details are expected later this month. (Devex, KFF)
• On May 14, the House Ways and Means Committee advanced parts of Trump’s proposed budget, concerning nonprofits and foundations. It includes provisions to increase taxes on private foundations from 1.39% to 10% for the wealthiest foundations, impose a 5% tax on remittances sent by non-U.S. citizens, raise taxes on university endowments from 1.4% to as high as 21%, and require corporations to donate at least 1% of their pre-tax profits (up from the current average of 0.92%) to qualify for a charitable tax deduction. The bill would also allow the government to revoke the tax-exempt status of organizations it deems supportive of terrorism, with limited due process. Now that it has cleared committee, the bill is expected to be bundled with other legislation and could reach the House floor for a vote as early as next week. (Devex)
• More proposed cuts at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spell further trouble for global health. The budget would eliminate funding for the NIH’s Fogarty International Center, which trains U.S. and international scientists in low- and middle-income countries, and for the CDC’s Global Health Center, which plays a critical role in tracking and responding to global outbreaks. The Global Health Center is also central to PEPFAR implementation—about 30% of PEPFAR’s programming, over $1 billion, flows through HHS. If the Center disappears, the future of PEPFAR’s reach and effectiveness is deeply uncertain. (Devex)

Gates Foundation to Double Spending

• In a glimmer of good news, last week, Bill Gates pledged to double the Gates Foundation’s spending to $200 billion over the next 20 years, until it closes its doors in 2045. (NYTimes)

USAID and State Department Reorganization

• In just 100 days, the Trump administration has effectively dismantled USAID — eliminating over 85% of its programs, gutting most of its 10,000-person workforce, and setting plans in motion to fold its remnants into a dramatically downsized and restructuring State Department.
• On April 17, the administration extended the foreign aid review for another 30 days from the original deadline of April 20, 2025. Additionally, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is now demanding detailed justifications before reimbursing aid organizations. The delays are further disrupting global health and development programs, creating uncertainty for nonprofits relying on U.S. funding. (KFF) (Devex)
• On April 22, Secretary Rubio announced the Department of State’s reorganization plan and new organization chart. The plan states that it would consolidate functions and remove non-statutory programs that are “misaligned with America’s core national interests.” While initially created through Executive Order in 1961 as part of the State Department, the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 established it as an independent agency within the executive branch. As such, the Executive branch does not have authority to dissolve it without Congress, and Congress also requires notification first as well as consultation on any proposed changes. (KFF)

Scientific Research: NIH and NSF

• “It is almost certainly the most consequential 100 days that scientists in the United States have experienced since the end of World War II,” wrote David Malakoff and Jeffrey Brainard of Science. “Many fear that in just 14 weeks, Trump has irreversibly damaged a scientific enterprise that took many decades to build, and has long made the U.S. the envy of the world.” New grant funding has decreased by 53% on average across four agencies. (Science)
• The Trump administration’s sweeping NIH cuts have led to the cancellation of $1.8 billion in research grants, severely disrupting global health research, including vaccine development, disease surveillance, and health equity initiatives — undermining the very infrastructure needed to respond to future health threats. (STAT) In California alone, Trump administration officials have terminated at least $296 million in NIH grants and $16 million in NSF grants. (SFChronicle)
• NIH also will begin prohibiting the awarding of new grants to any institutions that have DEI programs or boycott Israeli companies, in an escalation of the Trump administration’s use of research funding as leverage to dismantle activities at universities that it deems discriminatory or antisemitic. (STAT)
• The Trump administration has proposed slashing the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) budget by more than half — $4.7 billion. NSF already halted all new and existing grant funding and terminated over a thousand previously approved awards. The cuts come as NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan abruptly resigned earlier this month, citing he had done “all I can.” (NPR) NSF has also canceled research grants related to misinformation and disinformation. (NeimanLab)
• Grant Tracker provides open source airtables of NIH Grant Terminations in 2025 and NSF Grant Terminations 2025.

WHO, WFP and UNAIDS

• The World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed a $4.27 billion base budget for 2026–2027, a 14% cut from the current cycle, reflecting rising financial pressures and shifting global health priorities. (Devex) The WHO is undergoing a major restructuring amid deep funding cuts. Following the U.S. Executive Order on January 20 to withdraw from the WHO, the U.S. halted all financial contributions — $500M for 2025. “There is a tragic disconnect between the needs of member states being greater than ever and the WHO’s ability to deliver being lower than ever, without new resources and partnerships,” said Anil Soni, WHO Foundation CEO, at a briefing for Alliance members on May 13. 
• Facing steep declines in donor funding amid escalating global hunger crises, the World Food Programme (WFP) plans to reduce its global workforce by up to 30% by 2026.
• UNAIDS is also cutting its workforce by more than half and scaling back its country presence. (Devex)

 

Resources

Tracking Impact

• A new Impact Metrics Dashboard 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 programs, from maternal and child health to TB and malaria. Two quick summaries follow. 
• PEPFAR: The U.S. foreign aid freeze and dismantling of USAID have brought PEPFAR — the world’s largest HIV/AIDS program — to a breaking point, halting services, cutting staff, and threatening decades of global health progress. A January stop-work order froze all programming, and while a limited waiver allowed some treatment to resume, most prevention and community services remain suspended. With 71% of USAID’s HIV awards canceled and the CDC facing major cuts, disruptions now span dozens of countries — from ARV stockouts to shuttered clinics and mass layoffs. The disruption also jeopardizes the rollout of long-acting injectable PrEP, a major global health innovation. Modeling estimates over 100,000 additional HIV-related deaths from a 90-day pause and up to 16 million deaths if the program ends. (KFF)
• Global Health Security: The U.S. is rapidly dismantling its global health security infrastructure just as experts warn of a high risk of future pandemics. A stop-work order froze USAID programs, staff were let go, and funding for outbreak response was halted or delayed. With USAID dissolved, key global health activities are being absorbed into the State Department, while cuts at CDC and the Department of Defense (DoD) further erode capacity. Experts warn the fallout could mean tens of thousands of preventable infections each year and a slower, costlier response to the next global health threat. (KFF)

Advocacy and Mobilization

• Alliance members CUGH (here and here), DNDi, For Our Health (here and here), Friends of the Global Fight (here and here), GAIA (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), Maya Health Alliance, MedShare, Nexleaf Analytics, North Carolina Global Health Alliance (here and here), PATH, Pathfinder (here and here), Population Services International (here and here), ReSurge International, Seed Global Health (here and here), San Francisco Community Health Center (here and here), Stanford (here and here), UC Berkeley (here and here), UCGHI, and UCSF (here and here) 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
• The Pivot Playbook
• Career Pivot
• How To Write a Good LinkedIn Profile in 10 Steps | Step-by-Step Guide to Polish Your Personal Brand
• North Carolina Global Health Alliance Job Search Meet Up Group

Sources

June 17, 2025

• Inside Medicine I A Grand Unified Theory on What the Hell Is Going on With the CDC’s Power Vacuum.
• STAT+ I CDC Interim Leaders, in First All-Hands Meeting, Speak of ‘Myth-Busting’ and ‘Resilience’

June 16, 2025

• STAT I Hundreds of NIH Grant Terminations Are ‘Void and Illegal,’ Federal Judge Rules
• STAT+ I Private Equity Firm Will Finance Harvard Research Lab, in Possible Template for Future
• JAMA Network I Stanford: Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at a Crossroads
• STAT I Medicaid Cuts Could Result in More Than 16,000 Preventable Deaths Annually
• Washington Post I CDC Virus Expert Resigns After RFK Jr.’s Purge of Vaccine Advisers

June 13, 2025

• STAT I Opinion I Don’t Cut NIH and NSF Budgets — Let the Government Invest Like a Venture Capitalist
• STAT+ I In Fight Over Research Overhead Funding, Universities Propose Alternatives to Trump’s Cuts
• NIH I Nutrition Scientist Letter to Jay Bhattacharya

June 12, 2025

• Devex I House Approves Trump’s $8.3 Billion Clawback of US Foreign Aid
• Regulatory Focus I Makary: FDA to Look Into Further Consolidating Operations

June 11, 2025

• STAT I RFK Jr. Names New Members of CDC’s Vaccine Advisory Panel
• STAT I HHS Reverses Hundreds of CDC Firings
• MedPage Today I Hundreds of Laid-Off CDC Employees Are Being Reinstated
• Devex I UNFPA and the Human Fallout of US Aid Cuts: A $335 Million Gap
• The Guardian I Trump Administration to Cut All USAID Overseas Roles in Dramatic Restructuring

June 10, 2025

• STAT+ I Senators Push Back on Trump’s Proposed $18 Billion NIH Budget Cut
• MedPage Today I AMA Calls for Senate Investigation of RFK Jr.
• The Independent I White House Says It Will Spare Some AIDS Programs That Were on the Chopping Block
• Axios I Former, Current CDC Employees Call On RFK Jr. to Resign

June 9, 2025

• STAT I Health Secretary RFK Jr. Abruptly Fires CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel
• STAT I Philanthropies Rush to Save Measles Surveillance Network Pushed to Brink of Collapse by US Cuts
• NPR I NIH Scientists Call On Director to Protect Biomedical Research
• Think Global Health I U.S. Soft Power: Next Steps After the Foreign Aid Withdrawal
• Science I NIH Terminates Network Aimed at Stopping Pandemics Before They Start

June 6, 2025

• Washington Post I Trump Administration Races to Fix a Big Mistake: DOGE Fired Too Many People
• Devex I Congress Kick-Starts State Department Reorganization Planning
• The Bulletin | Time for Congress to Save American Science … and the Nation

June 5, 2025

• Axios I Questions Swirl Over Who’s Running the CDC
• Devex I Trump Unveils His Full 2026 Budget, With ‘Draconian’ Cuts to Foreign Aid
• Health Policy Watch I Global Health Council I Seed Global Health I UNICEF: WHO Advocates for ‘Sin Taxes’ to Offset Aid Cuts, as Trump Asks Congress to Rescind $9.4 Billion in Global Health Funds
• MedPage Today I Calls for RFK Jr. to Resign Grow Louder
• Roll Call I AI Regulation Moratorium Dropped in Senate Budget Package

June 4, 2025

• Inside Medicine I Trump’s Cuts to NIH-Funded US Medical and Scientific Research Now Totals $3.8 Billion.
• STAT I Dismantling CDC’s Chronic Disease Center ‘Looks Pretty Devastating’ to Public Health Experts
• STAT I 10.9 Million People Would Lose Health Insurance Under Trump’s Tax Cut Bill, Cbo Projects
• Devex I Trump’s $9.4B Rescission Package Targets ‘Woke’ and ‘Wasteful’ Aid
• Devex I Trump Budget Request and Rescission Plan Slashes Global Health Funding
• New York Times I The Disappearing Funds for Global Health, Vaccine Research & Chronic Diseases
• Global Health Council I Statement on Proposed Rescissions

June 3, 2025

• STAT I Trump Administration Revokes Guidance Requiring Hospitals to Provide Emergency Abortions

June 2, 2025

• Politico I Rare Disease Funding Imperiled

June 1, 2025

• Axios I HHS Watchdog Finds More Than $16B in Health Savings

May 31, 2025

• Devex I The Top Foundations Hiring for Development Roles

May 30, 2025

• Washington Post I Contradicting RFK Jr., CDC Keeps Recommending COVID Vaccine for Kids
• STAT I State Dept Overhaul to Cut 3,400 Jobs, Recast Focus on US Values
• STAT+ I New HHS Document Details Deep NIH Cuts as Part of Trump Budget Request
• Inside Medicine I HHS Visibility ≠ Transparency. The Legal Processes for National Vaccine Policy Have Been Usurped.
• CBS I Trump Administration Ending Multiple HIV Vaccine Studies, Scientists and Officials Say

May 29, 2025

• STAT I Opinion: Former FDA Commissioner: ‘Cost-Cutting’ May Undo One of Trump’s Best Drug Pricing Achievements
• KFF Health News I Silence on E. Coli Outbreak Highlights How Trump Team’s Changes Undermine Food Safety
• MedPage Today I RFK Jr.’s MAHA Report Cited Studies That Don’t Appear to Exist
• The Guardian I Trump’s New ‘Gold Standard’ Rule Will Destroy American Science as We Know It

May 28, 2025

• STAT+ I ‘Corrupt’ Medical Journals Have to Change, RFK Jr. Says, or the NIH Will Publish In-House
• Devex I Who Are the US State Department’s Top Development Partners?
• STAT I HHS Cancels Nearly $600 Million Moderna Contract on Vaccines for Flu Pandemics
• Devex I Can Domestic Financing Solve the Global Health Funding Crisis?
• The Independent I The AIDS Crisis Was Set to End by 2030 – Now Trump’s Cuts Will Mean 4 Million More Deaths
• ProPublica I Trump Pledged to “Make America Healthy Again,” Then Cut a Program Many Tribes Rely on for Healthy Food
• ProPublica I Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations
• GHTC I How US FDA Layoffs Threaten Global Health in Low- And Middle-Income Countries and Weaken US Competitiveness
• NPR I Marco Rubio Said No One Has Died Due to US Aid Cuts. This Mom Disagrees
• NPR I Trump Administration Cancels Plans to Develop a Bird Flu Vaccine

May 27, 2025

• STAT I UCSF: RFK Jr. Rolls Back COVID Vaccine Recommendations for Healthy Children, Pregnant People
• Inside Medicine I RFK Jr. Quietly Signed Off on Some Narrow CDC Vaccine Recommendations, but Left RSV and New Meningitis Shots in Limbo.
• Washington Post I A Big Trump Administration Cutback Went Nearly Unnoticed

May 23, 2025

• STAT+ I Reeling From Trump Contract Cuts, the National Academies Prepares for ‘A Fairly Radical Downsizing’
• Devex I Aid Factories Reboot After US Quietly Amends Food Contracts
• Inside Medicine I DOGE, and Not HHS Scientists, Directed the Killing of Many NIH Grants.
• Devex I Inside the United States’ New ‘Trade, Not Aid’ Strategy in Africa
• STAT+ I Scientists Protest White House Plan to Put Political Appointees in Charge of Grant-Making
• Devex I A New Model for Funding Global Health Takes Shape

May 22, 2025

• Devex I FHI 360: Rubio: ‘No Children Are Dying on My Watch’

May 21, 2025

• Devex I Death, Reform, and Power: Rubio Spars With Senate Over USAID Cuts
• Devex I US Still Wants Global Health Cooperation, but Not Through WHO
• Washington Post I China to Donate $500 Million to WHO Stepping Into Gap Left by US
• New York Times I Federal Cuts Become ‘All Consuming’ at Harvard’s Public Health School
• Chronicle of Higher Education I An NIH Grant Is Restored, With a Catch: Cut a Study on Trans Youth
• STAT I LGBTQ+ Researchers Sue HHS, NIH Over Grant Cuts
• Reuters I State Department Refugee Office to Assume USAID’s Disaster Aid Role, Says Cable
• NPR I Diseases Are Spreading. The CDC Isn’t Warning the Public Like It Was Months Ago

May 20, 2025

• Science I FHI 360 I Merck I Pfizer: Crippling Tropical Diseases Threaten to Surge After US Funding Cuts
• Mercury News I The Trump Administration Has Cancelled $85.6 Million in Federal Grants to Santa Clara County — All of It Related to Public Health
• STAT+ I RFK Jr. Declared War on Chronic Disease. First Comes the Battle Over Priorities
• Reuters I RFK Jr. Demands Healthier School Meals as Trump Cancels Program That Funded Them

May 19, 2025

• Devex I ‘Avalanche of Outreach’ as People Vie for State Global Health Positions
• STAT+ I UC Davis: Scientists Are Pushing to Get Their Grants Reinstated — and Some Are Winning
• CNN I Federal Judge Overturns Trump’s Efforts to Take Over and Cripple US Institute of Peace
• Axios I NIH Funding Cuts Put Current and Future Cancer Patients at Risk
• Nature I NIH Grant Rejections Have More Than Doubled Amid Trump Chaos
• Devex I Thousands of USAID Staffers Compete for Just 300 New Roles

May 16, 2025

• Nature I US Brain Drain: Nature’s Guide to the Initiatives Drawing Scientists Abroad
• New York Times I As Congress Debates Cutting Medicaid, a Major Study Shows It Saves Lives
• Devex I Time for Philanthropy to Get Serious About Scale and Impact

May 15, 2025

• Inside Medicine I RFK Jr. Says Matthew Buzzelli, a Lawyer With No Public Health Experience, Is the Acting CDC Director.
• Devex I Trump and the Future of the UN
• CIDRAP I Kennedy Defends HHS Budget Cuts Before House, Senate Committees
• The Conversation I Unprecedented Cuts to the National Science Foundation Endanger Research That Improves Economic Growth, National Security and Your Life
• Devex | Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Clears Key Committee, Hurting Foundations
• Devex Newswire | Philanthropies’ Fears Creep Closer to Reality
• STAT I ‘What Wouldn’t I Be Worried About?’: Research Leaders Discuss Threats to US Science
• KFF Health News I GOP Tries To Cut Billions in Health Benefits

May 14, 2025

• US Senate Foreign Relations Committee I The Dangerous Consequences of Funding Cuts to U.S. Global Health Programs
• Government Executive I CDC to Cut One Employee for Each It Is Recalling from Layoffs

May 13, 2025

• Nature I US Brain Drain: The Scientists Seeking Jobs Abroad Amid Trump’s Assault on Research
• UN Women I New Survey Shows Half of Women’s Organizations Aiding Women in Crises May Shut Down in Six Months Due to Global Aid Cuts

May 12, 2025

• Inside Medicine I How Many Kills Does DOGE Have? How Many Scientific Breakthroughs Have Been Stifled by President Trump’s Administration?
• STAT+ I Trump Confirms He Will Sign ‘Most-Favored Nation’ Executive Order in Bid to Lower Drug Prices
• Axios I MAHA’s Messy Marriage
• Axios I FDA’s Plan to Roll Out AI Agencywide Raises Questions
• Wired I The EPA Will Likely Gut Team That Studies Health Risks from Chemicals
• Science I Trump’s ‘Fear Factor’: Scientists Go Silent as Funding Cuts Escalate

May 11, 2025

• Deutsche Wells I How Hard Are USAID Cuts Hitting Africa’s Healthcare?

May 9, 2025

• STAT+ I From Pandemic Preparedness to Precious Frozen Spit, NIH Contract Terminations Cut Deep
• Devex | What You Need to Know About WHO’s 2026-2027 Budget Proposal

May 8, 2025

• ICTworks I Financial Collapse Is Forcing Radical United Nations Restructuring
• Politico I FDA Rebuilds Its AI Staff
• STAT I NIH Grant Terminations Under Trump Have Totaled at Least $1.8 Billion, Analysis Finds
• Inside Medicine I “Randomized Controlled Trials Are Not Always Necessary,” New FDA Vaccine Chief Dr. Vinay Prasad Says to Staff.
• Devex I The Skinny on Trump’s Very Big First 100 Days
• Latanya Mapp I USAID Is Gone. Now What?

May 7, 2025

• STAT I Despite Its Cancer-Fighting Mission, NCI Starts to Feel Trump Administration Budget Ax
• CBS I CDC Disease Detectives Exempted From Trump Hiring Freeze, Averting Cut to Program
• Axios I Trump Taps Wellness Influencer Casey Means for Surgeon General
• ProPublica I Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show
• Healio I CDC Terminates Infection Control Advisory Committee
• Devex I DOGE’s ‘Defend the Spend’ Effort Hits the Aid Sector
• Undark I Health Experts Say: Don’t Abandon WHO, Reform It

May 6, 2025

• STAT I Vinay Prasad Tapped to Run FDA Center That Regulates Vaccines, Gene Therapies
• ProPublica I Internal VA Emails Reveal How Trump Cuts Jeopardize Veterans’ Care, Including to“Life-Saving Cancer Trials”
• Devex I UNAIDS Will Lose More Than 50% of Staff in Restructuring
• KFF I The Trump Administration’s Foreign Aid Review: Status of PEPFAR

May 5, 2025

• GHTC I USAID’s Latest Global Health R&D Report Offers Glimpse of Progress Now at Risk
• STAT I Opinion: The Trump Administration’s Approach to Extreme Weather Will Damage Health
• NPR I Trump Restricts Funding for ‘Gain-of-Function’ Research — Calling It Dangerous
• Axios I 19 States Sue RFK Jr. Over HHS Restructuring
• New York Times I How to Fill the America-Shaped Hole in Global Health
• WUNC I FHI 360, NC Global Health Alliance: Trump’s Cuts to Funding for Scientific Research Pose Grave Risks for RTP and Global Health
• KFF | The Trump Administration’s Foreign Aid Review: Status of Global Health Security/Pandemic Preparedness
• KFF | The Trump Administration’s Foreign Aid Review: Status of PEPFAR

May 4, 2025

• Inside Medicine I Eleven Public Health Experts on the First 100 Days of the Trump Administration.
• AP I Cuts Have Eliminated More Than a Dozen US Government Health-Tracking Programs
• GHC I Statement on the FY26 Presidential Budget Request

May 3, 2025

• Devex I Trump Budget Proposes Unprecedented, ‘Reckless’ Cuts to Foreign Aid

May 2, 2025

• Inside Medicine I This Week in Public Hell—Umm, Health.
• KFF | White House Releases FY26 Budget Request
• NPR | Scientists Reel as Turmoil Roils National Science Foundation

May 1, 2025

• KFF Health Tracking Poll April 2025 I Public’s View on Major Cuts to Federal Health Agencies
• CBS I HHS Redirects $500 Million to Trump Appointee’s Vaccine Project, Bypassing Reviews

April 30, 2025

• Inside Medicine I Inside the FDA: Inheriting Turmoil, New Commissioner Addresses Morale, Faces Important Tests, and Says There Will Be No Reorganization at the Agency.
• NPR I Listen: Here’s How the Trump Administration Has Changed Health Policy in Its First 100 Days
• Nature I NIH to End Billions of Dollars in Foreign Research Grants
• Devex I Opinion: Foreign Aid Won’t Save Us. Neither Will Philanthropy

April 29, 2025

• Harvard TH Chan I A View From 100 Days: Public Expectations About the Changing Public Health Landscape
• Axios I Trump’s (Second) First 100 Days
• Nature I Will US Science Survive Trump 2.0?
• Devex I How Trump’s First 100 Days Have Meant Chaos for US Foreign Aid
• Devex I MCC Shutdown Would Risk Global Trust, Cede Ground to China, Experts Warn
• NPR I White House Dismisses Authors of Major Climate Report

April 28, 2025

• Devex I UN Refugee Agency to Close Some Offices as Donors Cut Funding
• Humanitarian Action I US Funding Freeze Global Survey
• Devex | Opinion: Financing Health for All Requires Bold Moves Away From Aid

April 25, 2025

• STAT I Trump’s First 100 Days, Seen Through 5 Lives: Grants Terminated. Dreams Crushed. Futures in the Balance
• STAT+ I NIH Announces Six New Acting Institute Directors, Many of Them Filling Posts of Ousted Predecessors
• Devex I WFP to Cut Up to 30% of Staff Amid Aid Shortfall
• Devex I How the Talent Landscape May Shift Post-USAID
• SF Chronicle I California Researchers Stunned by Trump’s $312M in Grant Cuts: ‘No Warning’ [UC Davis, UCB, UCSF & Stanford]
• Inside Medicine I This Week in the Trump Administration’s “Adventures” in Public Health.

April 24, 2025

• STAT I Public Health Leaders, Distrustful of RFK Jr., Stand Up Project to Defend Vaccines
• Axios I Key FDA Drug Data Goes Missing Amid DOGE Cuts 
• Devex I How US Human and Health Services Budget Cuts Could Impact Global Health
• Devex I FHI 360 & UNICEF: Who’s Still Standing? USAID’s New Top 15 Implementers
• The Guardian I Global Study on COVID Vaccine Safety Falls Victim to Trump Cuts
• STAT+ I NIH Grants Plummeted $2.3 Billion in Trump’s First Months, as Federal-Academia Partnership Crumbles
• STAT I Day by Day, How Trump Is Roiling Science and Health
• NPR I DOGE Dismantling Foreign Aid Agency Started by George W. Bush
• STAT+ I NIH Grants Plummeted $2.3B in Trump’s First Months, as Federal-Academia Partnership Crumbles
• Devex | The Rise of Private Global Health Actors Sparks Calls for Accountability

April 23, 2025

• Devex I Opinion: What the US Administration May Not Know About Foreign Aid
• STAT+ I Former Trump Official Warns President He’s at Risk of Ruining His Legacy on Ending HIV
• STAT+ I New England Journal of Medicine Gets Swept up in US Attorney Inquiry Into Alleged Bias

April 22, 2025

• Axios I As Trump Administration Champions IVF, It Cuts Key CDC Staff
• Wired I Here’s All the Health and Human Services Data DOGE Has Access To
• Devex I State Department Releases New ‘America First’ Reorganization Plan
• Nature I Exclusive: A Nature Analysis Signals the Beginnings of a US Science Brain Drain

April 21, 2025

• STAT+ I NIH Bans All Future Grants to Universities with DEI Programs or Israel Boycotts
• NeimanLab I National Science Foundation Cancels Research Grants Related to Misinformation and Disinformation
• Health Affairs I Trump Administration’s HHS Cuts: Creating Waste And Inefficiency, Not Eliminating Them
• STAT+ I NIH Director Calls Trump’s Anti-DEI Orders ‘Misunderstood,’ Downplays Reorganization Plans
• The Atlantic I The Scramble to Save Rural Health Care From DOGE
• New Yorker I The Cost of Defunding Harvard

April 20, 2025

• Inside Medicine I What That Leaked HHS Reorganization Document Actually Is—And What to Expect Next.

April 19, 2025

• Rolling Stone I Count the Dead by the Millions

April 18, 2025

• Pro Publica I Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
• MedPage Today I Trump Turns COVID Info Website Into a Promotion Page for ‘Lab Leak’ Theory
• MedPage Today I Medical Journals Get Letters from DOJ
• CBS I FDA Making Plans to End Its Routine Food Safety Inspections, Sources Say
• STAT I Opinion: Five Priorities to Remake the FDA in a Time of Deep Uncertainty
• STAT I NIH Said to Have Halted Awarding of New Grants to Top Universities
• Devex I Philanthropies Fear Trump Will Target Their Tax-Exempt Status

April 17, 2025

• Devex I ‘What’s In’ and ‘What’s Out’ in USAID’s Global Health Programming
• CNN I Top NIH Nutrition Researcher Studying Ultraprocessed Foods Departs, Citing Censorship Under Kennedy
• KFF Health News I Beyond Ivy League, RFK Jr.’s NIH Slashed Science Funding Across States That Backed Trump
• Devex I As Famine Data Dries Up, Can AI Step In?
• Devex I Trump Administration Extends Foreign Aid Review for Another 30 Days

April 16, 2025

• Washington Post I Internal Budget Document Reveals Extent of Trump’s Proposed Health Cuts
• Inside Medicine I A 64-Page HHS Restructuring Proposal Outlines Sweeping Cuts to US Public Health.
• STAT I Opinion: The CDC’s Critical Occupational Safety Institute Has Been Virtually Wiped Out
• Devex I DOGE Staffer Takes Over at the State Department’s Office of Foreign Aid
• The Conversation I The Sudden Dismissal of Public Records Staff at Health Agencies Threatens Government Accountability
• STAT I ‘The Same Bobby Kennedy’: How RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Criticism Came Rushing Back
• Washington Post I Women, Minorities Fired in Purge of NIH Science Review Boards
• Reuters I Us Consumer Safety Agency to Stop Collecting Swaths of Data After CDC Cuts
• STAT I Trump Budget Draft Proposes NIH Consolidation and 40% Spending Cut

April 15, 2025

• STAT I RFK Jr. Plans Changes to Vaccine Side Effect Reporting System
• STAT I Universities Begin Search for Indirect-Cost Fix That Might Assuage Trump Administration
• STAT+ I Trump Targets Health Care Costs With Executive Order on Drug Price Negotiations, Hospital Payments
• STAT+ I Harvard Scientist Ordered to Halt Multicenter TB Trial in Funding Freeze
• Devex I Trump Administration Plans to Cut State Department Funding by Half
• STAT I Harvard Funding Cuts Will Largely Spare Affiliated Hospitals, Trump Administration Says

April 14, 2025

• STAT I Why CDC Cuts Are Being Called ‘The Greatest Gift to Tobacco Industry in the Last Half-Century’
• STAT I Closure of CDC Hepatitis Lab Imperils US Outbreak Response, Prevention
• Devex Pro I What’s Next for Global Development Funding in 2025?

April 11, 2025

• STAT I Opinion: Other Countries Must Step Up to Fill the Void of USAID
• Devex I Trump Admin Cuts Hundreds of Grants at USADF Despite Legal Limbo
• KFF Health News I Trump HHS Eliminates Office That Sets Poverty Levels Tied to Benefits for at Least 80 Million People
• STAT+ I Inside US Health Agencies, Workers Confront Chaos and Questions as Operations Come Unglued
• NPR I Dozens of USAID Contracts Were Canceled Last Weekend. Here’s What Happened
• Devex Pro I 4 Ways to Diversify Your Funding Strategy

April 10, 2025

• New York Times I As Kennedy Champions Chronic Disease Prevention, Key Research Is Cut
• STAT I RFK Jr. Suggests Some Vaccines Are Risky or Ineffective, Downplays Measles Threat
• STAT I Crucial FDA Drug Reviews Expected to Be Slowed by Job Cuts

April 9, 2025

• Axios I A Closer Look at the Nationwide Impact of NIH Cuts
• Inside Medicine I CDC Has No Acting Director, Sources Confirm.
• Devex I USAID Foreign Officers to Be Repatriated, Local Staff Fired by Aug. 15
• Devex Pro I USAID’s Merger with the State Department: The Pros, Cons, and Questions

April 8, 2025

• Inside Medicine I HHS “Reductions to Absurdity,” One Week On.
• Devex I Marco Rubio: What Part Is He Actually Playing in USAID’s Dismantling?
• New York Times I All Federal Experts on H.I.V. Prevention in Children Overseas Were Dismissed
• STAT+ I HHS Firings Could Face Legal Challenges Over Inaccuracies, Process Used to Make Cuts
• Devex I A ‘Death Sentence for Millions’ as US Cuts More Aid
• Devex I What Will USAID Feeder Schools Do Now?
• Nature I NSF Slashes Prestigious PhD Fellowship Awards by Half
• Devex I Trump Administration Admits Lifesaving Aid Was Accidentally Cut
• AP News I As a Future of US Foreign Aid Cuts Comes Into Focus, so Do Efforts to Respond
• Health Policy Watch I Recent Aid Cuts Jeopardize 40% Reduction in Maternal Mortality Since 2000
• The Lancet I The Effects of Reductions in United States Foreign Assistance on Global Health [preprint]

April 7, 2025

• Axios I HHS Cuts Felt Locally as Regional Offices Close
• Devex I Which USAID Offices Saw the Most Cuts?
• KFF Health News I Firings at Federal Health Agencies Decimate Offices That Release Public Records

April 6, 2025

• Inside Medicine I Dr. Atul Gawande Updates Senators on the Destruction of USAID
• Axios I Key Safety Hotlines Disrupted by HHS Cuts

April 5, 2025

• Devex I USAID Staff Told They May Be Called Back to Work to Wind Agency Down
• The Guardian I Trump Administration Eviscerates Maternal and Child Health Programs

April 4, 2025

• Devex Pro I Leaked US State Department Data Raises More Questions Than Answers
• Health Policy Watch I Court Papers Against NIH Claim that Grant Cuts Are an ‘Ideological Purge’
• Axios I States Are Losing Billions in Federal Childhood Vaccine Funding
• New York Times I Judge Permanently Bars N.I.H. From Limiting Medical Research Funding
• NPR I How Will the Deep Cuts at the Centers for Disease Control Affect Global Programs?

April 3, 2025

• STAT I Why a Small Journal’s ‘Blueprint for NIH’ May Offer Clues to the Agency’s Future
• Axios I Drug Industry Worries About FDA Delays
• Axios I The Emerging Health Communications Gulf
• Politico I Fauci Allies Get the Axe at NIH
• STAT+ I A Running List of Senior FDA Officials Who Have Left the Agency
• STAT I Federal Judge Says She Will Temporarily Block Billions in Health Funding Cuts to States
• Wall Street Journal I RFK Jr. Plans to Reinstate Some Federal Workers, Programs
• MedPage Today I Over 350K Health Workers Face Deportation Risk
• KFF Health News I Trump’s DEI Undoing Undermines Hard-Won Accommodations for Disabled People

April 2, 2025

• STAT+ I Trump Administration Begins Mass Cuts of Federal Health Policy Researchers
• Inside Medicine I HHS Cuts: The Method Was the Madness.
• STAT I Decimation of HHS Comms, FOIA Offices Will Leave Americans in the Dark About Urgent Health Matters
• New York Times I Trump Administration Demands Additional Cuts at CDC
• Salon I Trump’s Cruel Calculus on Public Health Is Slashing Lifelines for the Most Vulnerable
• CNN I Scholars, Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Canceled NIH Research Funding
• The Hill I Democrats Investigating RFK Jr. Bird Flu Response

April 1, 2025

• Washington Post I Widespread Layoffs, Purge of Leadership Underway at US Health Agencies
• Politico I Thousands Laid off as Kennedy and Musk Take Aim at Health Agencies
• New York Times I Major Layoffs Begin at Health Agencies That Track Disease and Regulate Food
• US News I Trump Health Layoffs Include Staff Overseeing Bird Flu Response, Source Says
• CNN I ‘It’s a Bloodbath’: Massive Wave of Job Cuts Began at Us Health Agencies
• STAT I Nearly 2,000 Top Researchers Call On Trump Administration to Halt ‘Assault’ on Science
• Devex I Opinion: USAID Can Maintain Its Impact Amid a Transition to DOS
• CNN I ‘The Lives of Individuals in the US Are at Stake,’ Researchers Warn After HHS Cancels Hundreds of Vaccine Grants
• The Lancet I Public Health Under Trump 2.0: The First 50 Days
• Reuters I US Senator Cassidy Calls on Kennedy to Appear Before Senate Panel Over Health Agency Cuts
• Your Local Epidemiologist I Why We Keep Going
• New York Times I Millions of Women Will Lose Access to Contraception as a Result of Trump Aid Cuts
• AP News I States Sue Trump Administration for Rescinding Billions in Health Funding
• STAT I Trump Administration Sued Over Decision to Rescind Billions in Health Funding
• KFF I The USAID List of Terminated Global Health Awards – What Does It Tell Us?
• Science I Trump Officials Will Screen NIH Funding

March 31, 2025

• Devex Pro I Which Multilaterals Are Hit Most by USAID Terminations?

March 28, 2025

March 27, 2025

• STAT+ I RFK Jr. Brings FDA Under Tighter Control with HHS Workforce Cuts
• STAT I Trump Administration Says It Wants to Fight Fentanyl, but It’s Slashing Budget to Fight Opioid Overdoses
• Reuters I FDA Staff Struggle to Meet Product Review Deadlines After DOGE Layoffs
• Devex I FHI 360, Friends of the Global Fight: The USAID Awards the Trump Administration Killed — and Kept
• Devex I Who Lost the Most? The 20 USAID Contractors Hit Hardest
• The Atlantic I UCSF: The NIH’s Most Reckless Cuts Yet
• Devex I Global Health Council: What’s the Status of All the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Aid Freeze?

March 26, 2025

• New York Times I U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries
• Devex I Kenyan Govt Internal Memo Warns of ‘Domino Effect’ of US Health Cuts
• CBS I Senate Confirms Marty Makary to Lead FDA, Jay Bhattacharya to Head NIH
• Washington Post I Vaccine Skeptic Hired to Head Federal Study of Immunizations and Autism
• STAT+ I Tara Schwetz, Who Oversaw Creation of ARPA-H, Placed on Leave by NIH
• Devex I Ousted USAID Health Lead Says US Fumbled Uganda’s Ebola Response
• Friends of the Global Fight: How the Global Fund Makes the u.s. Safer, More Secure and More Prosperous
• Devex Pro I What’s Left, but More Importantly, What’s Ahead for USAID?
• CBS I DOGE Removes Details on Canceled USAID Contracts From Its Online “Wall of Receipts”

March 25, 2025

• STAT+ I NIH Cuts Halt 24-Year Program to Prevent HIV/Aids in Adolescents and Young Adults
• STAT I 5 High-Level CDC Officials Are Leaving in the Latest Turmoil for the Public Health Agency
• STAT I Trump Nominates Republican Once Accused of Mishandling Taxpayer Funds as HHS Watchdog
• Wall Street Journal I Trump Administration Plans to Freeze Family-Planning Grants
• NBC I CDC Is Pulling Back $11B in COVID Funding Sent to Health Departments Across the US
• Washington Post I Opinion: Why I Left My Job Leading Public Health Messaging for the CDC
• Health Policy Watch I PEPFAR Reauthorisation Expires with No Clarity About Renewed US Funding for HIV
• Health Policy Watch I Civil Society Organisations Face Backlash After Trump, Musk Link USAID Grantees to ‘Terrorism’

March 24, 2025

• STAT I Cancer Research, Long Protected, Feels ‘Devastating’ Effects Under Trump
• Politico I Tracking Canceled USAID Contracts
• STAT+ I NIH Is Removing Some Outside Scientific Advisers Who Evaluate Agency Research
• STAT I Trump Picks Susan Monarez to Run the CDC
• ProPubilca I NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
• Devex I Foreign Aid Is an Easy Political Target. But Do Americans Want It Gone?
• Washington Post I Opinion I Funding for R&D Isn’t a Gift to Academia
• BBC I Gilead Sciences: US Cuts to HIV Aid Will Cost Millions of Lives — UNAIDS Chief
• ProPubilca I NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change

March 23, 2025

• Politico I Global Aids Program Teetering After Trump Admin’s Shock-and-Awe

March 21, 2025

• Devex I How Is This ‘Reimagined’ Proposal for Usaid Hitting the Sector?
• Devex I Has USAID Spending Been Cut by Less Than We Thought?
• Devex I Who Is Still Hiring in the US?
• ​​Devex I For Those Laid Off from USAID, New Job Resources Are Plentiful

March 20, 2025

• The Conversation I US Isn’t First Country to Dismantle Its Foreign Aid Office − Here’s What Happened After the UK Killed Its Version of USAID
• Devex I Memo Lays Out Plan to Replace USAID with New Humanitarian Agency
• Devex I Why the US Aid Freeze Could Be a Moment to Reform Food Aid

March 19, 2025

• Axios I Fallout From Trump Research Cuts Expands Across Academia
• Reuters I US Senate Democrats Demand Reversal of CDC Mass Firings
• Politico I Trump Aides Circulate Plan for Complete Revamp of Foreign Aid Programs
• Stanford Report I Study Finds Foreign Aid Sanctions Set Back Decades of Progress on Maternal and Child Mortality
• Roll Call I SF Community Health Center: Trump’s Policies Threaten His 2019 Vow to End HIV, Experts Say

March 18, 2025

• Washington Post I Trump Administration Moves to Reinstate Thousands of Probationary Workers
• Washington Post I Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Elon Musk and DOGE from Further Dismantling USAID
• Axios I HHS Drops Surgeon General’s Advisory on Gun Violence
• STAT I ‘No One Can Fill That Gap’: Why a Global Health Leader Sees US Funding as Irreplaceable
• Reuters I Funding Cuts for Global Health Programs Threaten Childhood Vaccination Efforts, WHO Says
• WSJ I Trump Administration Weighing Major Cuts to Funding for Domestic HIV Prevention
• Fierce Healthcare I Trump Rescinds Biden Executive Order on COVID-19 Data Collection, Memo on LGBTQ Rights

March 17, 2025

• STAT I WHO Issues Starkest Warning Yet on Fallout from US Withdrawal of Aid for Global Health
• STAT+ I NIH Cancels Funding for Landmark Diabetes Study at a Time of Focus on Chronic Disease
• UN I Eighty Percent of WHO-Supported Facilities in Afghanistan Risk Shutdown by June
• CNN I As Bird Flu Continues to Spread, Trump Administration Sidelines Key Pandemic Preparedness Office
• Devex I 4 Strategies for Diversifying Funding in a Post-USAID World

March 16, 2025

• Devex I US Congress Passes Budget Bill, but Questions Remain on Foreign Aid
• Devex I Exclusive: Inside the Closed-Door Meeting on USAID’s Future
• KFF I Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them to Scrub mRNA References on Grants

March 15, 2025

• NY Times I Opinion I Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
• New Yorker I Hundreds of Thousands Will Die

March 14, 2025

• STAT+ I At NIH, ‘Everyone Is on Edge’ as They Brace for Deep Cuts and More Centralized Control
• Devex I Inside USAID’s Postmortem Program Review
• Devex I USAID Implementing Partners Told Government Must Pay Up
• Inside Medicine I Trump’s Acting NIH Director Appoints Himself as Acting Head of the Office That Controls External Grant Funding.
• STAT+ I RFK Jr.’s ‘MAHA’ Commission Meets for the First Time — Behind Closed Doors
• Devex Pro I Watch. Philanthropy, Blended Finance, and the Evolving Role of NGOs
• AP I Appeals Court Lifts Blocks on Trump’s Orders Restricting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Programs

March 13, 2025

• STAT I White House Pulls Nomination of Dave Weldon as CDC Director Hours Before Hearing
• Devex I FHI 360: Cuts to USAID-Funded Research Another Blow to Global HIV Response
• Science I Can NIH Overturn a Court Order Blocking It From Slashing Overhead Payments? Unlikely, One Expert Says
• Devex I Vital Strategies: ‘How Did We Get Here?’ — African Health Experts on Ending Aid Dependence

March 12, 2025

• Time I U.S. Added to Global Human Rights Watchlist Over Declining Civil Liberties
• Devex I Congressional Hearing Kicks Off DFC Reauthorization Efforts
• Devex I Gilead Sciences: USAID Funding Cuts Jeopardize Breakthrough Drugs and Research
• Devex I Opinion I Trump’s War On Science Imperils Global Development and Cooperation
• Devex I Trump’s New ‘Loyalty Test’ for UN and Aid Groups
• Devex I As Aid Dwindles, Can Philanthropy Rewrite the Rules of Giving?

March 11, 2025

• Politico I USAID Official Tells Remaining Staffers: Shred and Burn All Your Documents
• AP News I Court Asked to Intervene After Email Tells USAID Workers to Destroy Classified Documents
• Devex I Judge Orders Trump to Pay USAID Partners, Rejects ‘Unbounded’ Power
• Inside Medicine I Public Health Under Siege. The Legal Battles Shaping the Future of US Medicine, Public Health, and Science.
• Undark I Federal Science Hamstrung by DOGE’s Credit Card Spending Limit
• Devex I Trump Taps Project 2025’s Russell Vought to USADF, IAF Boards

March 10, 2025

• New York Times I Judge Orders U.S.A.I.D. and State Dept. to Pay Funds ‘Unlawfully’ Withheld
• Devex I Remaining USAID Programs Now Under State Department, 5,200 Programs Canceled
• Devex I As the USAID Dust Settles, What’s the Development Job Market Outlook?
• Washington Post I NIH to Terminate or Limit Grants Related to Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake
• ProPublica I National Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval
• The New Humanitarian I The Data Streams That Underpin Humanitarian Response Are About to Collapse

March 9, 2025

• STAT I HHS Makes $25,000 Buyout Offer to Most of Its Employees

March 7, 2025

• STAT+ I NIH Abruptly Terminates Millions in Research Grants, Defying Court Orders
• STAT+ I NIH Has Paused Patenting of Discoveries, Slowing Their Use in Developing Treatments
• ABC I NIH Terminating Active Research Grants Related to LGBTQ+, DEI Studies
• Devex I Trump Administration Rapidly Guts the Inter-American Foundation
• Washington Post I Global Health Council: Judge Orders USAID Payments to Some Foreign Aid Groups by Monday

March 6, 2025

• New York Times I FHI 360: Defunded Aid Programs Are Asked by Trump Administration to Prove Their Value, on a Scale of 1 to 5
• Washington Post I Trump’s Foreign Aid Demolition Hits Major Christian Charities
• Washington Post I Global Health Council: Judge Orders USAID Payments to Some Foreign Aid Groups by Monday
• Devex I What Peter Marocco Told Lawmakers About USAID at a Closed-Door Meeting
• Devex I DOGE Takes Over US African Development Foundation
• Nature I NIH to Terminate Hundreds of Active Research Grants
• NIH I NIH Centralizes Peer Review to Improve Efficiency and Strengthen Integrity
• Devex I Judge Denies Temporary Order in USAID Personal Services Contractors Case

March 5, 2025

• NYT | Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Bid to Freeze Foreign Aid 
• NPR | Supreme Court Upholds a Lower Court Order to Force USAID to Pay Contractors
• KFF | CDC Firings Undermine Public Health Work Far Beyond Washington
• Reuters | US Judge Bars Trump Administration from Cutting NIH Research Funding
• Devex | Opinion: Trump Aid Shock Underscores Need for More Made-in-Africa Medicine
• Science | Trump Tracker
• Washington Post I Supreme Court Reinstates Order for the Trump Administration to Un-Freeze Foreign Aid
• Washington Post I NIH Reels with Fear, Uncertainty about Future of Scientific Research
• STAT I Judge Issues Preliminary Injunction Blocking Trump Cuts to NIH Research Overhead Payments 
• STAT I CDC Invites Back About 180 Fired Employees, Including Some Who Help Fight Outbreaks
• Devex I ‘That Money is Going to Sink Us’: USAID-Funded Startups Fight to Survive

March 4, 2025

• KFF | Poll: Two Thirds Believe Dissolving USAID Will Lead to More Illness and Death Globally, While Nearly Half Say It Would Significantly Reduce the Budget Deficit and Fund Domestic Programs
• Devex | How Will the Rest of the World Respond to Lights-Out at USAID?
• Inside Medicine I Some CDC Probationary Employees Have Been Reinstated. “We Apologize for Any Disruption that this May Have Caused.”

March 3, 2025

• Devex | Funding Freeze on Us Foreign Aid Is ‘Over,’ Trump Administration Claims
• Devex | The Urgent Need to Rethink Africa’s Health Financing
• STAT+ I NIH Terminates Ongoing Grants for LGBTQ+ Research

March 2, 2025

• NYT | U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid
• CNN I NC Global Health Alliance: ‘They Are Harming Ordinary People’: Trump’s Funding Cuts Are Taking a Toll in North Carolina
• The Hill I Global Health Council: USAID Cuts Could Send Global Health Into Chaos

March 1, 2025

• AFP | Groups Say Millions Already Hit as US Guts Aid
• Pro Publica I The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway.

February 28, 2025

• Devex | ‘Disaster’ as Health Programs Reel from USAID Terminations
• Devex | UN Chief: US Cuts Make the World Less Healthy, Safe, and Prosperous
• Devex | Aid Groups Present Case to Supreme Court as Decision Looms
• Devex | Critical Global Surveys Fall Casualty to US Foreign Aid Gutting
• NPR | On Thursday Word Came: No More USAID Funds for a Clinic That Gets HIV Meds to Kids
• The Guardian | US Shutdown of HIV/AIDS Funding ‘Could Lead To 500,000 Deaths in South Africa’
• Forbes | Kenyan Health Worker On USAID Cuts — ‘We Are Going To Choose Now Between Food And Drugs’
• Science | ‘A Bloodbath’: HIV Field is Reeling After Billions in U.S. Funding Are Axed
• Washington Post I Global Health Council: Groups Urge Supreme Court to Keep Deadline for USAID to Pay $2 Billion
• Devex I USAID Asks Partners for Information on Recently Cut Awards
• Huffington Post I CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel

February 27, 2025

• Devex | Supreme Court Pauses Order to Release Billions of Dollars in Foreign Aid
• Health Policy Watch | US Terminates Thousands of Life-Saving Global Health Grants Including for HIV, TB and Malaria
• NYT | U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, HIV, Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
• KFF | The Trump Administration’s Dismantling of Global Health: What’s Next
• Inside Medicine I FDA Vaccine Meeting Abruptly Canceled. Meeting Was to Determine 2025-2026 Influenza Vaccine Composition.
• CBC I USAID Workers Pack Belongings, as Trump Administration Targets 90% of Foreign Aid Contracts
• The Atlantic I Inside the Collapse at the NIH
• Politico I Global Health Council: USAID Cuts Expected to Devastate Global Health

February 26, 2025

• Devex | Nearly 10,000 Awards Cut from USAID, State Department
• Reuters | Trump Blocked From Imposing Sweeping Federal Funding Freeze
• NYT | Trump Administration Ends Global Health Research Program
• NPR | The Trump Administration Kills Nearly All USAID Programs

February 25, 2025

• NYT | President Trump’s Cuts to Medical Research
• NPR | Judge Tells Trump Administration It Has Less Than 2 Days to Resume USAID Funding
• Devex I Why Are Thousands Being Culled from USAID, and Who Will Be Left Standing?
• Washington Post I Judge Orders Trump Administration to Pay Millions in USAID Funds
• SF Community Health Center: Our Fight Begins
• Devex I Judge Orders USAID to Release Millions of Dollars in Foreign Aid
• STAT I CDC Will No Longer Process Transgender Data

February 24, 2025

• NPR | Trump Officials Will Put 4,700 USAID Employees on Leave and Eliminate 1,600 Jobs
• Devex I USAID Staff Start Receiving Termination Letters
• STAT I U.S. Joins WHO-Led Flu Vaccine Meeting, Despite Planned Withdrawal from Agency
• STAT I Some NIH Study Sections Will Resume Grant Reviews, but Final Funding Decisions Are Still in Limbo

For further sources, see our previous recaps here and here.