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Jahn Jaramillo, MPH

@jahnjaramillo.bsky.social
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Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Miami • Point Foundation Scholar • Former Fulbright ETA & Posse Foundation Scholar

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Jahn Jaramillo, MPH @jahnjaramillo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
“As a Colombian immigrant, my grant represented opportunity and hope… The grant application was 98 pages of perseverance.” In the essay, I reflect on the uncertainty, psychological toll & broader consequences funding disruptions can have on trainees and scientific innovation & offer policy supports.
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I never thought my NIH fellowship could disappear
The termination of fellowship grants resulted in serious public health consequences and threatened the careers of the next generation of scientists.
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Jahn Jaramillo, MPH @jahnjaramillo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
We talk a lot about the millions of dollars lost, but not enough about the next generation of scientists. These pieces connect the data with lived experience. Please repost & help uplift students who are fighting to stay in academia & support their communities. #NIH #PublicHealth #AcademicSky
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 01/04/2026
Congrats newly minted Dr. Jarmaillo! @jahnjaramillo.bsky.social I wrote about your experience on my blog today. @aniloza.bsky.social did a great job highlighting the importance of your work and the inconsistency in claims that “DEI” is being replaced with “Merit” www.statnews.com/2026/03/23/n...
The experience of Jahn Jaramillo, a PhD candidate at the University of Miami studying HIV prevention in the Latino immigrant community, illustrates how the system is failing researchers who play by every rule.
According to STAT News, the NIH terminated
405 F31 awards meant to fund doctoral students, and most were "diversity" awards.
Jaramillo's grant, which had received a perfect peer review score, focused on HIV in the Latino immigrant community. His work aligned directly with the Trump administration's own stated initiative to end the HIV epidemic, and Miami is a high-priority area for that initiative. His grant was terminated anyway.
These "diversity" NIH grants were reviewed in the same study sections as all other awards.
The applications were evaluated on the same criteria of scientific merit. Jaramillo scored the highest possible score. Still, his work was cut. His ability to engage research participants from a community that had never participated in research before, an asset enabled precisely by his identity and language, was turned into the reason his funding was pulled. Something that, by any honest measure, makes rebuilding trust in research harder.
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Jahn Jaramillo, MPH @jahnjaramillo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Grateful to see this conversation being brought to light & this reflects what many early career researchers are navigating right now. If funding is shrinking but community need is growing, how are early career researchers supposed to stay and keep doing this work? @aniloza.bsky.social @statnews.com
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Jahn Jaramillo, MPH @jahnjaramillo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
When my NIH F31 grant was terminated, I was devastated. This companion piece to our recent analysis on F31 terminations centers the human impact of these disruptions, alongside evidence on how these fellowships have shaped trainee trajectories. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #AcademicSky #NIH
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Jahn Jaramillo, MPH @jahnjaramillo.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
When my NIH F31 grant was terminated in 2025, I wanted to understand how widespread these disruptions were. In a new paper, we show that 400+ predoctoral fellowships were affected, raising concerns about stability in early-career research support. doi.org/10.1093/hasc... #HAScholar @Health_Affairs
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