Johns Hopkins University, one of the leading centers in the country for scientific research, said on Thursday that it will eliminate more than 2000 workers in the United States and abroad due to the sharp cuts of the Trump administration, primarily for international aid programs.
The demobilization of workers, the most in the history of the university, will include 247 workers at the university, which is based in Baltimore, and a affiliate center. 1,975 other jobs will be reduced in 44 countries. It affects the Bloomberg College of General Health at the University, the College of Medicine and Non -profit organizations, JHPIEGO.
Nearly half of the school’s revenues last year came from the FBI research, including $ 365 million from the US International Development Agency. In all, the university will lose $ 800 million in financing over several years from the United States Agency for International Development, which is the Trump administration is dismantling.
Johns Hopkins is one of the best university recipients for financing that the administration aims to cut. It appears that among the most deeply influential research institutions that reel from the cuts – or the threat of discounts – to the federal funds that they depend on in research studies and laboratories.
In a statement on Thursday, he described it as a “difficult day”, Jones Hopkins said he was “very proud” by her work in projects, which included efforts to “care for mothers and infants, fight diseases, provide clean drinking water and progress in countless efforts, and save life all over the world.”
In a statement last week, Johns Hopkins depends on federal financing, Ron Daniels, President of the University, said, “We, more than any other American university, are deeply linked to pressure between our sector and the federal government.”
Among the total employment revenues in the school in 2023, it came 3.8 billion dollars, or nearly half, funded by the federal government. The Trump administration said it wants to make the government smaller and more efficient through, among other measures, significantly reduce financial support for the program, which enhances public health and food security in low -income countries.
In order to arrange the discounts in the agency, which reaches a 90 percent decrease in its operations, President Trump said he was run by “radical left -wing crazy” and is full of “huge fraud.”
However, critics of the decision said that the cuts are included in a new era of isolation This may be dangerous. Sunil Suleiman, the epidemic scientist at Johns Hopkins, said that the cuts will lead to the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
“What the real great countries do is help other countries, but now, we are America first,” said Dr. Solomon.
The administration has also sought to reduce the amount of money sent by the National Health Institutes to the University to research, which were banned in the courts now. If they come into effect, these cuts will reduce federal payments to Jones Hopkins by more than $ 100 million annually, according to university numbers analysis.
The university, which receives about one billion dollars annually in NIH financing and currently runs 600 clinical trials, is one of the plaintiffs in a federal case that defies these cuts.
Separately, the Trump administration also targeted specific schools for discounts. She reduced $ 400 million in Colombia’s budget last week based on accusations that it failed to protect students and faculty members from anti -Semitism.
Jones Hopkins and Colombia are listed in the list of 10 schools that the administration says is examined by the anti -Semitic work band in the executive branch. The administration has threatened to reduce federal funds for schools in the list, while others, that they are not compatible with federal civil rights laws.
In addition to more than 2000 employees whose jobs have been canceled, the university said that 78 additional local employees and 29 internationals will be leave in low tables.
Discounts in Johns Hopkins include funding programs by the United States Agency for International Development, through which American universities have worked with international partners, to a large extent to enhance public health and agricultural research. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said this week that 5,200 of the 6200 contracts contracts have been canceled and that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will manage the remaining programs directly, which eliminates the need for the US Agency for International Development, which is under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Research projects that are eliminated include international work on tuberculosis, AIDS and cervical cancer, as well as programs that directly benefit Baltimore.
Dr. Solomon, the epidemic scientist, runs a $ 50 million program for six years to improve the results of HIV in India. He said that budget discounts in his program alone will lead to demobilization of about 600 people in the United States and India. The program, among other things, has diagnosed nearly 20,000 people with HIV by tracking the connection.
Dr. Solomon said: “It is a trauma.” “Stopping funding will not kill you today, but in six months you will see an effect all over the world.”
Dr. Jude and Soun runs the Ministry of International Health at Johns Hopkins, who supervised a five -year program worth $ 200 million to diagnose tuberculosis and control in 20 countries funded by the United States Agency for International Development
He said that the program in Kampala, Uganda, the program was the only way to diagnose children.
He said: “This is just an example of how sudden withdrawal of support has real effects on survival.”
In addition to the loss of jobs in Jones Hopkins, the loss of programs will lead to a rise in infectious diseases all over the world.
What is mainly the closure of the United States Agency for International Development He had great effects in universities throughout the country.
An organization called Woody stopAnd that tracks the demobilization of workers, said that 14,000 domestic workers have lost their jobs so far, with thousands of expected thousands.
The research by the Federal Reserve shows that universities are major economic engines in many agricultural regions, from Iowa to Florida, which means that the impact of discounts on management on science research will feel in both the red states and societies with left weapons such as Baltimore.
The elimination of a $ 500 million agricultural project is called the Feed The Future, which funded agricultural laboratories in 19 universities in 17 states, means that many of these laboratories must be closed.
At Illinois Champin University, 30 people have lost their jobs at the Future Laboratory that improved soybeans in Africa, according to Peter Dr. Goldsmith, a professor of agriculture who was running this laboratory.
At the Mississippi State University in Starcville, Miss State, the Fisheries Fisheries Laboratory has been closed, according to Sydney L. Salter, university spokesman, who has not revealed the number of lost jobs.
The effects of the economic ripple of financing discounts are expected to spread in the Baltimore. Jones Hopkins, who records about 30,000 students, is also one of the largest employers in Maryland.
