President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.” ...

"I think a lot of folks here at NIH are experiencing just moral distress about the things we're being asked to do," Dr. Jenna ...

More than 90 NIH scientists signed their names to the “Bethesda Declaration” in protest of Trump administration policies they say are harming people’s health.

They called it the Bethesda Declaration, for the location of the NIH. “We hope you will welcome this dissent, which we modeled after your Great Barrington Declaration,” the staffers wrote.

On Monday, scores of scientists at the agency sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter titled the Bethesda Declaration, challenging “policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public ...

In the Bethesda Declaration, the scientists say the Trump administration has "forced NIH, under [Bhattacharya's] watch" to "politicize" research, "stigmatize" studies about health disparities, ...

The letter, titled the Bethesda Declaration (a reference to the NIH’s location in Bethesda, Maryland), is modeled after the Great Barrington Declaration, an open letter published by Bhattacharya ...

NIH officials have denounced their own agency’s leadership in the so-called Bethesda Declaration, warning that the Trump White House’s agenda puts public health at risk.

Jenna Norton ,who works as a researcher at the NIH, poses for a photograph during an interview with the Associated Press in Bethesda, Md., Friday, June 6, 2025.

On Monday, scores of scientists at the agency sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter titled the Bethesda Declaration, challenging “policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public ...

They called it the Bethesda Declaration, for the location of the NIH. “We hope you will welcome this dissent, which we modeled after your Great Barrington Declaration,” the staffers wrote.