The Trump administration is pausing new funding for National Institutes of Health grants that include terms like “health equity” and “structural racism,” pending review, according to new guidance sent to agency staff and obtained by NOTUS.
What’s more, the review must be conducted first with a “computational text analysis tool” that scans for terms “that may potentially be associated with misalignment with the administration’s priorities,” per the guidance.
No new funding will be issued to grants identified as misaligned “until the project has been assessed, and all areas of non-alignment have been addressed,” reads the memo, which was sent to staff last week.