‘Complete shock and dismay’: scientists unite against Trump’s $1tn grant attack

OMB proposal would upend entire grant-making system - and put vast sums into hands of political appointees

It was a late Friday afternoon in Boston when Harvard School of Public Health professor Nancy Krieger, a social epidemiologist, received an email that would reshape the next year of her life.

It was from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - her nearly $1m grant to study how discrimination affects population health was canceled.