National Institutes of Health (NIH) Acting director Matthew Memoli tried to clarify the size of the freezing of the Trump administration on communication and other functions within the Health and Human Services department, which has expressed concern for officials and legislators of agencies.
Memoli’s Memo, sent on Monday to leaders in the more than two dozen centers and institutions of the NIH, said scope of the break “He wanted to offer additional guidance.
The internal memo was first reported by Statnieuws . The NIH did not respond to repeated requests for comments.
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Last week, the new Trump administration The first of next month paused external communication at HHS. In addition to stopping announcements, press releases, website and social media messages, new guidance and new regulations, De Freeze also stopped public performances and travel by officials from the agency, and forbidden new purchases or service requests with regard to BureEUUWERK.
A scientist shows pippering viscous DNA in the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center in Rockville, MD on April 13, 2023.
The move caused anger and confusion among both HHS officials and those in the broader medical. After the directive, scientific meetings and subsidy assessments were canceled, so that considerable concerns were expressed about the impact on research.
“We write to express our serious concern about actions that have taken place in recent days that possible life -saving research may be disrupted and supported by the National Institutes of Health,” said a trio of Democratic Wetgevers from Maryland in a Monday letter at the acting HHS secretary to HHS to HHS’s acting secretary Dr. Dorothy Fink. “Without rapid corrective measures, the consequences of further disturbance can be disastrous.”
According to the memo of Memoli, while officials from the agency are not allowed to start new research while the break is in force, Research or clinical investigations Initiated before January 20 can continue “so that this work can continue and we do not lose our investment in these studies.” Civil servants who work on these studies can also buy “necessary supplies” and hold meetings with regard to such work. Although new research projects are still prohibited, NIH employees can continue to submit articles to medical journals and they can communicate with those magazines on work submitted.
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A seal that “American public health service” reads, adorns a building on the campus of the National Institutes of Health, March 9, 2001, in Bethesda, Maryland. (Mark Wilson/Newspaper Photo))
The freezing of purchases was further clarified by Memoli’s Memo, which indicated that although the break remains, the purchases “directly related to human safety, human or animal health care, safety, biosecurity or IT security can” continue “. Travel and hire For such work, it is also possible, indicated, but its office must grant specific exemptions for new employees such as President Donald Trump Also initiated a freezing of hiring new federal civilian employees in all agencies during his first week in office.
Routine travel planned for after 1 February “does not have to be canceled at the moment,” Memoli added. Patients who receive treatment at NIH facilities can continue to do this.
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In the meantime, external communication will remain forbidden, except for “announcements that, according to HHS divisions, are mission -critical”. On Monday, in the middle of the freezing, Fink announced that HHS would start evaluating The current practices to ensure that they meet the federal requirements under the Hyde amendment, a law that prohibits the use of federal funds for non-medically necessary, elective abortions.
A field that was particularly absent in the memo from Memoli to Federal Health leaders were clarifications about the meetings of subsidies. However, the Memo of the acting director concluded that it is expected that further guidelines will be made available later this week.
The building of the US Department of Health and Human Services, also known as the Hubert H. Humphrey building, is located at the foot of Capitol Hill in the capital of the country. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Although the break at HHS has caused a fire storm of concern and criticism, a former centers for sickness and prevention scientist who is now the dean of the School of Public Health of the University of Nebraska, Dr. Ali Khan, on the Associated Press that such breaks are not unusual. Khan said that concern is only justified if the break was aimed at “silencing the agencies about a political story.”
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“I think the intention of such a chaotic freezing of communication was to scare us, demoralizing us and putting back science in an attempt to make us look bad” Forbes on condition of anonymity. “We are certainly not perfect, but FFS, our task is literally to enable research to save lives, what does it matter?”
