Johns Hopkins is laying off 237 people in Baltimore, according to two Work Adjustment and Retraining Notification notices filed in Maryland on March 13.
The layoffs include 107 staffers at the Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communications Programs. Another 130 people are affiliated with the Jhpiego Corporation, according to the WARN notice.
Jhpiego is a nonprofit organization for international health affiliated with Johns Hopkins University. It was founded in 1973 as the Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics.
The layoffs have an effective date of May 12.
WHY THIS MATTERS
The staffing cuts follow the termination of $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University by the Trump administration, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Jhpiego works closely with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), one of the first agencies to be gutted by the White House's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), in a 90-day pause on foreign assistance funding.
On Tuesday, a federal judge found that DOGE and Elon Musk likely violated the Constitution when they took action to shut down USAID, according to CBS News.
The USAID funding cuts are in addition to threatened National Institute of Health research dollars.
Johns Hopkins President Ronald Daniels said nearly half of the university's incoming funds last year were from research done on behalf of the federal government, according to the WSJ report.
One NIH grant was being used to study how best to send pneumonia patients home so they do not have to be readmitted to the hospital. Other health projects included breast-feeding efforts in Baltimore and mosquito-net programs in Mozambique, the WSJ report said.
THE LARGER TREND
Johns Hopkins University joined a lawsuit to block cuts to NIH research funding, according to the HUB of Johns Hopkins University.
In February, Johns Hopkins University joined 12 peer research universities along with the American Association of Universities, the American Council on Education, and the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities in filing a federal lawsuit to block the NIH research funding cuts.
The NIH cuts are reportedly on pause during the legal challenge.
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