Yesterday, the news that the Center for Disease Control has been broken indefinitely to the PRAMS, a comprehensive program for collecting federal data “designed to identify groups of women and infants at a great risk of health problems, to monitor changes in the health condition, And measure the progress towards the goals in improving the health of mothers and infants, “which has been operating since 1988. The Center for Disease Control ordered to stop collecting 2024 data Effective on January 31 of this year and the entire group put 2025 programs on an unlimited contract.
This, of course, matches the HHS general campaign to public health and research. But it was not precisely clear why the program was closed or whether it might go back. Based on my sources, I can now report that the issue does not seem to be the different ways that can be seen on comprehensive research on pregnancy as coinciding with differences on abortion and other implications for reproductive health care. The issue is what the administration “Dei” calls. The questionnaires include questions about racism, discrimination, sexual orientation, identity and a set of questions that are looking at how the social and economic situation affects health. Some, but not all of these questions were new as of 2023 and each of them should go.
Various details have been shared about specific types of questions that may be on the cutting block with me. But I consider this on the margin what is cut and what is not completely clear. I focus here on the public fields because this type of research is outside my experience. But its essence is that the current survey and research protocol includes questions about race, sexual orientation, identity and class condition. All of them must go because of the president’s executive about “Dei”.
One of the paradoxes about this, as one of my sources notes, is that the origins of the Prams program in the 1980s were an attempt to find out the cause of black health (and to an extent less than the indigenous Americans) and that their children were worse on the health of the worst results than white mothers and their children. So the idea that the healthy children of children designed to surface and be available can be separated from the ethnic/ethnic or class background of mothers and children are flawed on their face.
I was told that the employees of the Disease Control Center who work on children’s offers were told that the program will In the end, he continued in the absence of these questions. But this is in itself a long process, as the research protocol rewritten and reviewed in all the ways that major public health projects need, etc. (I consider that the current IRB review of Prams, which I reported yesterday, is linked to the changes in the questionnaire, although linking these two depends on my conclusion and not my direct report.) The additional factor is that there is the accumulation of government programs, documents, research projects, etc. that insists On the White House, it should be cleared of “Dei” (which reaches any discussions of race, economic and orientation Sexual and identity). They-or I consider the matter Omb-insisting that they be a judge of what they are going to be deviated from Dei. What this means is that even if we take this plan more or less by the nominal value – stripping bad “Dei” questions and returning to work – this may not really happen for some time.