Harvard Chan projects yielding new insights into disability benefits, trainings for first responders in humanitarian crises, and a model to measure discrimination’s impact on health, have lost federal funding.
Cuts at NIOSH, a federal agency focused on workplace health and safety, could make workers across the U.S. less safe, slow research about how to prevent worker illness and injury, and shrink the pipeline of experts in occupational health and safety.
In an interview with CNN, Harvard Chan School’s Mary Bassett discussed recent public health headlines including federal funding cuts to scientific research and the potential of another infectious disease pandemic.
