As a professor of anesthesiology and principal investigator at the University of Michigan, I have spent over a decade studying health inequities, social risk factors, and community engagement in clinical research. My team's NIH-funded studies, like many around the country, are experiencing severe disruption because of recent policy shifts.

Some say diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) needs to die, but killing off the benefits of DEI alongside its limitations is a threat to American lives . I have experienced firsthand how scorched-earth policies on DEI undermine medical research. In May, and again in September, the NIH emailed my team at the University of Michigan, asking us to “remove all DEI activities” from our grants, including direct patient engagement, or risk having both stud

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