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Closures in US federal research system
Children will suffer from changes to US research system
BMJ 2025; 388 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r572 (Published 26 March 2025) Cite this as: BMJ 2025;388:r572
- Colleen A Kraft, professor of pediatrics1,
- Michael Weitzman, professor of pediatrics, adjunct professor23,
- Donna Koller, professor of early childhood studies4,
- Jeffrey Goldhagen, professor of pediatrics, president56,
- Francis Rushton, pediatrician7
- 1Keck School of Medicine, Division of General Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- 2Department of Pediatrics, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- 3University at Albany College of Integrated Health Sciences, NY, USA
- 4Early Childhood Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, CA
- 5Division of Community and Societal Pediatrics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL, USA
- 6International Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health
- 7Birmingham, AL, USA
- colleenkraft60{at}gmail.com
As paediatricians working in the US, we view the changes being made to our healthcare and education systems, research enterprise, and regulatory agencies1 as truly dystopian.
The damage is clear to us. The breakdown of information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; unjustified firing of workers from the National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, and Environmental Protection Agency; decreasing the funding of university …
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