The article criticizes scientific organizations for their silence in the face of escalating political challenges that threaten research funding for marginalized communities. It highlights the Trump administration's cuts to programs focused on equity and health disparities, detailing how only a few organizationsâlike the American Public Health Associationâhave taken action, such as joining a lawsuit against these funding cuts. The author, a public health researcher, shares their disappointment at witnessing lack of support from their own professional society, calling for a stronger advocacy role for scientific communities in protecting essential research and public health initiatives.
Some scientific organizations must actânot just to defend research, but to defend the lives and communities that depend on their work.
Yet no other scientific societies have taken steps to join legal challenges, despite the vocal resistance of individual scientists.
I've spent my career trying to ensure groups that have been historically overlooked or excluded are not erased from research agendas.
Witnessing my own professional society choose silence in this moment hit differently.
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