Johns Hopkins University said it would remove more than 2000 jobs after the administration of President Donald Trump has canceled federal funding for thousands of international aid projects, including a program designed to help the HIV transmission in India and a clinical trial of diarrhea in Bangladesh.
The university, one of the most important scientific research institutions in the country, said in a statement on Thursday that it will eliminate 1975 jobs at the international level and 247 in the United States as a result of discounts to the United States Agency for International Development. 78 additional employees, based in the United States and 29 international employees.
“This is a difficult day for our entire society,” the statement said. “End more than 800 million dollars in financing the US International Development Agency now forcing us to reduce cash work here in Baltimore and internationally.”
The researchers who lead some programs to be closed said that the cuts could increase the risk of risk. Changes will have an economic impact on Baltimore because the university is the largest private business owner in Maryland.
on Half Jones Hopkins‘ Financing came last year from the dollar of federal researchAccording to a message from Ron Daniels, President of the University.
It is one of many universities throughout the country that prevents workers or carrying out the freezing of employment because it calculates comprehensive discounts F for research and higher education from the Trump administration. Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Notre Dame have stopped employing faculty members.
In addition, the Trump administration canceled about $ 400 million of scholarships to Colombia University last week, noting the alleged harassment of Jewish students, as well as $ 30 million in financing for Maine University, after the state governor with Trump clashed with the sporting athletes.
More than 50 universities are under investigation, as the administration seeks to end diversity, fairness and integration programs.
The White House defended the procedures.
“President Trump simplifies federal agencies to eliminate the farce of farceful Dei projects and provide more money for scientific research, not less. It will support the policies that enhance our public health, cut programs that are not in line with the agenda that the American people gave their length in November, and to preserve programs that put America first,” said White House press secretary Anna Kelly.
Johns Hopkins researchers said they are afraid that discounts to the United States Agency for International Development will have severe consequences for the societies in which they were working.
Dr. Sunil Solomon, the epidemic scientist who helped lead in the HIV and prevention research program in India, said the program provided the HIV test to about 120,000 people and a person of approximately 20,000 cases since it started in April 2019. The program also helped to provide medicine to improve treatment for about 8,000 children with HIV.
Suleiman said that the program was scheduled to receive about $ 50 million in the total financing of the United States Agency for International Development until the end of 2026, and used just over 36 million dollars so far.
Solomon said that there will be more HIV transmission in India, more HIV children who will not receive timely care and less than people who have been diagnosed as a result of closing his program.
Suleiman said: “There is certainly a lot of missing spirits from this program from the entire global stopping and ending the US Agency for International Development.” “You will not see this happening tomorrow or the next day, but these effects will be seen, perhaps six months, when children stop taking medications, their immune system begins, and they start to capture a new infection.”
Suleiman said that the acceleration will be forced to lay off nearly 600 people, including four Johns Hopkins employees in the United States and 14 in India, along with hundreds of subcontractors in India.
Dr. Joud and Al -Son, an infectious pathologist and head of the Ministry of International Health at Johns Hopkins, said that other programs have been closed or reduced.
These include a Tuberculosis Research Program and Clinical trial in Bangladesh is designed to reduce cholera outbreaks and other diarrhea diseasesHe said.
“People were recorded in that study. We had to stop all activities despite this continuous work.”
He added that the discounts can offer us the population more vulnerable to infectious diseases.
Walon said: “In many ways, the United States Agency for International Development has provided a mechanism for us to live on the basis of what is happening around the world regarding the disease.” “We ride one plane away from the spread of very important diseases in our country, and this decision to end all these programs will have important consequences for global health security.”
In Baltimore, at the same time, economic effects can be crowned. Johns Hopkins paid about $ 5 billion of wages in the state of Maryland in the fiscal year 2022 and directly employ approximately 56,500 people in the state, according to L. University estimates. Johns Hopkins said it was responsible for more than $ 15 billion in economic effects in Maryland during that period.
Other Trump administration discounts can threaten Jones Hopkins. Last month, the administration tried to limit the national institutes of health payments for universities to obtain research grants by setting indirect costs, which cover things like facilities and construction operations, to 15 %.
Politics was challenged in court, including in one cases where the university is a prosecutor. Earlier this month, the judge put the management plan to wait.
In a legal file, Johns Hopkins said he had received more than a billion dollars in financing grants from the National Health Institutes in the fiscal year 2024. The file said that reducing payments for indirect costs may leave the university on the hook for an estimated $ 200 million.
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