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Rachana Pradhan

Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C., United States

Correspondent at KFF Health News

Covering health care across America for @kffhealthnews. Proud @JMU alum and lover of public records. Find me on Signal: rachanadpradhan.83

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  • 2 weeks ago | kffhealthnews.org | Rachana Pradhan

    Hundreds of workers at the National Institutes of Health — the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world — are openly protesting the Trump administration’s policies regarding the agency, saying the upheaval and harm being done to the institution is so great that they felt they had no choice.

  • 2 weeks ago | indiacurrents.com | Rachana Pradhan

    Hundreds of workers at the National Institutes of Health on Monday openly protested the Trump administration’s cuts to the agency and consequences for human lives, writing in a sharply worded letter that its actions are causing “a dramatic reduction in life-saving research.” In a June 9 letter to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, NIH workers said they felt “compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources.”...

  • 2 weeks ago | wamu.org | Rae Ellen Bichell |Rachana Pradhan

    Communities in Montgomery County and beyond continue to feel the effects of mass layoffs and funding cuts at the National Institutes of Health, either directly or through the decline of scientific research. “Grants that focus on HIV and vaccine research have been cut … and then also grants for programs focused on the health of racial or gender minorities,” KFF Health News correspondent Rae Ellen Bichell told WAMU’s Morning Edition host Esther Ciammachilli.

  • 2 weeks ago | gazettextra.com | Rachana Pradhan

    Hundreds of workers at the National Institutes of Health on Monday openly protested the Trump administration's cuts to the agency and consequences for human lives, writing in a sharply worded letter that its actions are causing "a dramatic reduction in life-saving research." In a Monday letter to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, NIH workers said they felt "compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources."...

  • 2 weeks ago | fortune.com | Rachana Pradhan

    People walk past an entrance to the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland, on June 5, 2025. Eric Harkleroad/KFF Health News

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4 Jun 25

RT @KFFHealthNews: NEW: Tribes and Native American organizations lost grants for community health workers, vaccinations, data modernization…

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13 May 25

RT @cmaiduc: NEW from @ahartreports and me: @CAgovernor Gavin Newsom promised to fight for universal healthcare. He didn’t realize it would…

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8 May 25

RT @CalHealthline: “Citizen oversight is a cornerstone of a functioning democracy,” @RonWyden / @wyden.senate.gov tells RFK Jr. in a letter…