National Institutes of Health has spent almost half a million dollars to study the effects of’ tyranny’ on exposure to abortion.
A Planned Parenthood professional is researching “power and persecution” and “reproductive health providers” with the help of nearly half a million in tax money.
The review,” Enhancing Policy Impact for Reproductive Health Equity”, may seem at” cultural dynamics of power and oppression” may affect access to sexual and reproductive health services. The research runs through Aug. 2026.
These” cultural interactions” disproportionately hurt “individuals who identify as Black, Indigenous, and people of color … those with disabilities and chronic disease, individuals who are transgender or gender-nonconforming…and people of lower social position”, according to research author Elizabeth Janiak.
Janiak is a Harvard University professor whose studies “explores how state and administrative procedures create inequities in access to and quality of sexual and reproductive health…care”, according to her university profile. Janiak even serves as director of social science research at the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts.
She also runs the” Lab for Contraception and Abortion Research” at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
The review, which uses an “intersectional framework”, is designed to “understand obstacles to comprehensive efficiency, with the goal of improving potential health policy treatments”.
The project received$ 495, 307 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development split between$ 327, 394 in direct costs and$ 167, 913 in indirect costs.
The College Fix contacted the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and system established Ronna Popkin with questions about whether the site’s potential has been affected by the Trump administration, a more precise summary of its costs, and if the NIH often funds research that uses an “intersectional framework”.
The Fix sent two letters and left messages, but received no actions in the past several days.
The Fix half contacted Janiak and the United States Department of Health and Human Services via contact with the same issues but , received no response.
A medical physician criticized the study design, especially its large indirect costs. President Donald Trump just said indirect expenses may be capped at 15 percentage for NIH provides.
Dr. Kurt Miceli with Do No Harm told The Fix,” Indirect costs of$ 167, 913 represent an bandwidth of approximately 34 %. This is well in excess of the Trump Administration’s new normal direct cost price on all offers of 15 %”.
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He even criticized the use of taxpayer money to finance research “grounded in an integrative framework”, saying” this is really a matter of goal”.
” Resources are no endless, especially in an age of budget shortfalls”, Dr. Miceli said. ” The NIH with its tax dollars should focus on funding basic biomedical studies that will improve the health of all citizens rather than funding studies grounded in a political philosophy”.
The study’s description says an “exacerbating factor for these health inequities is the social stigmatization of sexuality, which compels individuals to keep their utilization of]sexual and reproductive health ] services private for fear of negative repercussions, particularly for people who hold minoritized identities”.
The project specifically studies the effects of Massachusetts’s Protecting Access To Confidential Healthcare law, which allows individuals to have health insurance companies” send forms about the services you’ve gotten to an address different from your parent’s or spouse’s, or to a private online link”.
The research” will estimate the proportion of insured dependents who refrain from using their insurance for sensitive services even in the setting of legal protections, quantitatively assess population knowledge of the PATCH law, and qualitatively assess barriers to use of the law’s protections among different demographic subgroups”.
The Trump administration has made sweeping changes at the NIH in the past two months, such as attempting to cut federal grant funding for various ideological research projects. Jay Bhattacharya, Trump’s nominee to lead NIH, has vowed to “establish a culture of respect for free speech in science and scientific dissent at the agency”.
The College Fix has studying-racism-and-pediatric-cancer-care/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>previously reported on other National Institutes of Health projects focused on identity politics, including a study of the effects of “microaggressions” on “pansexual” youth and another to look at the effects of “microaggressions” on “black women living with HIV”.
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