Below is a non-exhaustive list of changes within the Department of Health and Human Services (primarily the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) which may have an effect on global health research. For changes impacting other areas including education and libraries, see the "changes to other departments" tab on the left-hand side of the page.
AFP News Agency (2025). Trump says it's 'illegal' for TV networks to consistently criticize him | AFP. 20 September. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaH_7AvueiE (Accessed 25 September 2025).
Ahart, J. and Witze, A. (2025). "Columbia researchers eager to restrat science after university's deal with Trump". Nature, 29 July. Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02403-2 (Accessed 29 July 2025).
Askham, A. V. (2025). "U.S. human data repositories 'under review' for gender identity descriptors". The Transmitter, 9 April. Available at: https://www.thetransmitter.org/policy/u-s-human-data-repositories-under-review-for-gender-identity-descriptors/ (Accessed 1 July 2025)
Associated Press (2025). "Supreme court allows Trump officials to cut research millions in anti-DEI push". The Guardian, 22 August. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/21/supreme-court-trump-research-dei (Accessed 3 September 2025)
Associated Press (2025). "US health department moves to strip thousands of employees of collective bargaining rights". The Guardian, 22 August. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/22/trump-administration-collective-bargaining-rights (Accessed 3 September 2025).
Brainard, J. (2025). "Trump cuts subscriptions to Springer Nature journals". Science Insider, 27 June. Available at: https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-cuts-subscriptions-springer-nature-journals?utm_campaign=Science&utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=ownedSocial (Accessed 1 July 2025)
CDC (2025). CDC Priorities. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/about/cdc/index.html (Accessed 25 September 2025).
Chu, H. Y., Brewer, N.T., Asturias, E.J., Brookes, O., Cineas, S., Jamieson, D. et al. (2025). "The Path Forward for Vaccine Policy in the United States". The New England Journal of Medicine, 30 July. Available at: 10.1056/NEJMsb2509134
Dyer, O. (2025). "Trump's 'gold standard science' rule would let political appointees edit government science and punish scientists, critics say". BMJ, 2 June. Available at: https://www.bmj.com/content/389/bmj.r1131 (Accessed 1 July 2025)
EHP Publishing (2025). "Important Update About Journal Submissions". EHP Publishing, 23 April. Available at: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/do/10.5555/bf165cf1-82f3-44a4-90af-07ebe9543ae7/full/ (Accessed 1 July 2025)
Faust, J. (2025). "BREAKING NEWS: Censorship returns to the CDC. At least 22 webpages are down." Inside Medicine, 20 September. Available at: https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-censorship-returns (Accessed 25 September 2025).
Faust, J. (2025). "BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed". Inside Medicine, 1 Feb. Available at: https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-cdc-orders-mass-retraction (Accessed 1 July 2025)
Fortinsky, S. (2025). "CDC official in resignation letter says HHS policies 'do not reflect scientific reality'. The Hill, 28 August. Available at: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5474719-cdc-official-resignation-letter-vaccine-policy/ (Accessed 3 September 2025)
Freilich, J. and Kesselheim, A. (2025). "Data manipulation within the US Federal Government". The Lancet, 19 July. Available at: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01249-8/fulltext (Accessed 21 July 2025).
Garisto, D., Tollefson, J. and Witze, A. (2025). "How Trump's attack on universities is putting research in peril". Nature, 24 April. Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01289-4 (Accessed 2 August 2025).
Garisto, D. (2025). "Harvard researchers devastated as Trump team cuts nearly 1,000 grants". Nature, 24 May. Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01645-4 (Accessed 1 July 2025).
Garisto, D. (2025). "US senators poised to reject Trump's proposed massive science cuts". Nature, 10 July. Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02171-z (Accessed 22 July).
Gedeon, J. (2025). "RFK Jr's 'Maha' report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies". The Guardian, 29 May. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/29/rfk-jr-maha-health-report-studies (Accessed 1 July 2025)
Gedeon, J. (2025). "RFK Jr threatens ban on federal scientists publishing in top journals". The Guardian, 28 May. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/28/rfk-jr-medical-journals (Accessed 1 July 2025)
Guardian staff and agency (2025). "White House freezes $108m in funds to Duke University over affirmative action". The Guardian, 30 July. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/30/white-house-duke-university-racial-discrimination (Accessed 2 August 2025).
Holmes, O. (2025). "'Pay no attention': global health agencies dismiss false Trump claim on everyday painkillers". The Guardian, 23 September. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/sep/23/global-health-agencies-dismiss-false-trump-claim-everyday-painkillers (Accessed 25 September 2025).
Hopkins Tanne, J. (2025). "Robert F Kennedy Jr pulls funding for mRNA vaccine research". BMJ, 6 August. Available at: https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r1664 (Accessed 8 August 2025).
Kaiser, J. (2025). "NIH director is replacing his top outside advisory board". Science, 10 July. Available at: https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-director-replacing-his-top-outside-advisory-board (Accessed 29 July 2025)
Kaleem, J. (2025). "Trump freezes $300 million in UCLA science and medical research funding, citing antisemitism". LA Times, 31 July. Available at: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-31/trump-freezes-nih-nsf-funding-ucla (Accessed 2 August 2025).
Kozlov, M. (2025). "Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities". Nature, 14 July. Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02221-6 (Accessed 22 July 2025).
Kozlov, M. (2025). "Judge rules against NIH grant cuts - and calls them discriminatory". Nature, 16 June. Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01914-2 (Accessed 1 July 2025)
Livesay, B. (ed.) (2025). "Trump hails 'giant win' after Supreme Court curbs judges' power to block his orders". BBC, 27 June. Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz9yj7k5953t (Accessed 1 July 2025)
Manalac, T. (2025). "CDC names vaccine critic Retsef Levi as head of Covid-19 workgroup". BioSpace, 26 August. Available at: https://www.biospace.com/policy/cdc-names-vaccine-critic-retsef-levi-as-head-of-covid-19-workgroup (Accessed 3 September 2025)
Marsh, R., Tirrell, M. and Luhby, T. (2025). "HHS carries out mass firings across health agencies after Supreme Court decision". CNN Health, 15 July. Available at: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/14/health/hhs-layoffs-supreme-court (Accessed 29 July 2025)
Milman, O. (2025). "White House threatens sex education funds unless states nix references to transgender people in curriculums". The Guardian, 27 August. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/27/white-house-sex-education-funds-transgender-people (Accessed 3 September 2025).
Mordowanec, N. (2025). "RFK Jr. May Roll Back Major Achievement Donald Trump Called 'Monumental'". Newsweek, 27 August. Available at: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-rfk-covid-vaccine-hhs-2118816 (Accessed 3 September 2025)
Muller-Heyndyk, R. (2025). "RFK Jr 'endangering' Americans, say former CDC bosses". BBC, 2 September. Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8383r6d2po (Accessed 3 September 2025).
Natanson, H. (2025). "DOGE vowed to make government more 'efficient' - but it's doing the opposite". The Washington Post, 2 June. Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/02/doge-vowed-make-government-more-efficient-its-doing-opposite/ (Accessed: 1 July 2025)
National Institutes of Health (2025). Committee List. Available at: https://internet.csr.nih.gov/Committees/Members/100753/LSTR (Accessed: 1 July 2025).
National Library of Medicine (2025). "Modernizing Journal Selection at the National Library of Medicine". NLM Tech Bull, 2025 Sep-Oct;(466):e3. Available at: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so25/so25_medline_selection.html (Accessed: 9 September 2025).
National Library of Medicine (2025). Journal Selection for MEDLINE. Available at: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medline/medline_journal_selection.html (Accessed: 9 September 2025).
National Library of Medicine. (2025). National Library of Medicine Advisory Bodies. Available at: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/about/advisory_page.html (Accessed: 9 September 2025).
Noe, M. (2025). "MedlinePlus" [BlueSky]. 18 June. Available at: https://web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/noethematt.bsky.social/post/3lruzknf5w225 (Accessed: 1 July 2025)
Pifer, R. (2025). "HHS releases more detailed 2026 budget disclosing scope of cuts". Healthcare Dive, 2 June. Available at: https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/hhs-2026-budget-nih-cuts-trump-healthcare/749510/ (Accessed: 1 July 2025)
Reinhart, E. (2025). "The Scare Implications of U.S. Government Attacks on Medical Journals". Scientific American, 1 May. Available at: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-scary-implications-of-u-s-government-attacks-on-medical-journals/ (Accessed: 1 July 2025)
Smith, D. (2025). "US supreme court clears way for Trump officials to resume mass government firings". The Guardian, 8 July. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/supreme-court-trump-federal-layoffs (Accessed: 9 July 2025).
Stobbe, M. (2025). "Trump administration agrees to restore health websites and data". ABC News, 3 September. Available at: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/trump-administration-agrees-restore-health-websites-data-125229211 (Accessed: 7 September 2025).
Stobbe, M. (2025). "AMA and other medical associations are kicked out of CDC vaccine workgroups". AP, 4 August. Available at: https://apnews.com/article/vaccine-committee-cdc-cfbdcab84b2a919a6131d471959c3431 (Accessed: 8 August 2025).
Tanne, J. H. (2025). "CDC director is forced out over vaccine policy, and four senior scientists resign". BMJ, 29 August. Available at: https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r1831 (Accessed 3 September 2025).
Trump, D. J. (2025). Restoring Gold Standard Science. 23 May. Available at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/restoring-gold-standard-science/ (Accessed: 1 July 2025)
United States Department of Health and Human Services (2025). HHS Grants Terminated. Available at: https://taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data/HHS_Grants_Terminated.pdf (Accessed: 1 July 2025)
University of Cambridge (2025). Drosophila Genetic Database. Available at: https://www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-cambridge/physiology-development-and-neuroscience/drosophila-genetic-database (Accessed: 1 July 2025)
U.S Department of Health and Human Services (2025). Fiscal Year 2026: Budget in Brief. Available at: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25958360-fy-2026-budget-in-brief/ (Accessed: 1 July 2025)
Various (2025). "The Bethesda Declaration: A call for NIH and HHS Leadership to Deliver on Promises of Academic Freedom and Scientific Excellence". Stand Up For Science, 9 June. Available at: https://www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-declaration?utm_source=pressrel&utm_campaign=bethesdadec (Accessed: 1 July 2025)
Wikipedia (2025). 2025 United States government online resource removals. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_government_online_resource_removals (Accessed: 1 July 2025)
Wu, K. J. (2025). "The NIH's Most Reckless Cuts Yet". The Atlantic, 27 March. Available at: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/trump-nih-clinical-trials-patient-safey/682217/ (Accessed: 1 July 2025)
Yousif, N. and Bowes, P. (2025). "White House names RFK Jr deputy as replacement CDC director". BBC, 29 August. Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy3zjxy3dwo (Accessed 3 September 2025)
University of Exeter LibGuide is licensed under CC BY 4.0
