First on FOX: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of the Department of Robert F. Kennedy has completed more than $330 million in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants (NIH) related to diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) and gender studies in California alone.
“HHS has concluded more than $330 million in wasted research funding for California organizations that are not following NIH and HHS priorities,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in a statement Thursday to Fox News Digital.
“Dismissed research grants are wasteful in studying things that don't involve anything that is unrelated to American health, including DEIs and gender ideology. As we start to make America healthy again, it's important to prioritize research that directly affects American health.”
Fox News Digital has reviewed a list of termination grants. All of these are related to DEI initiatives or gender-related issues, primarily published to universities within the California State School System, such as the University of California, San Francisco, and UCLA, and published by private universities and research institutes in Golden State.
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“Utilizing the power of text messaging to reduce HIV incidence among adolescent men across the United States,” one $5,122,427 grant was awarded to a nonprofit called the Reading Center of the Innovative Center for Public Health Research.
According to the HHS, “The impact of sex hormones on neurodevelopment: Controlling adolescents in transgender adolescents was the title of a $3,692,048 grant to Stanford University.
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“#transcendentthealth – Indication of the LGB+ Comprehensive Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program for Transgender Boys” reads a $1,319,024 grant awarded to the Center for Innovative Public Health Research.
The University of California, San Francisco's $2,554,402 grant for “structural racism and discrimination in health inequality among older men” has also been cancelled, Fox Digital has been called $822,539 grant: Thai Buddhism and HIV stigma.
A total of 61 National Institutes of Health grants focused on California's gender and DEI have been cancelled. (Lightrocket via Ty O'Neil/SOPA Images/Getty Images)
A total of 61 NIH research grants focusing on California gender and DEI have been cancelled.
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Health and Human Services have cancelled millions at the National Institutes of Health related to gender and DEI research. (Adobe Co., Ltd.)
The announcement of grant cancellation comes after the president Donald Trump Following President Joe Biden's tenure, he signed a series of executive orders to remove the DEI initiative from the government's structure.
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On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order focused on “radical and vain.” Government DEI Program“And that focuses on restoring merit-based opportunities and 'ends illegal discrimination', ending DEI practices at the federal level in favor of a merit-based system.
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Since then, federal agencies across the country have been working on the federal offices of the DEI initiative to comply with the president's orders. On Friday, HHS announced it had concluded hundreds of other NIH research grants related to DEI and gender, bringing it to an end of more than $350 million in total.
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The research grant included research on “multi-level and multidimensional structural racism,” “gender-maintaining hormone therapy in mice,” and “microattack.”
ALEC Schemmel from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
