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@kylegavulic.bsky.social
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MD-PhD Candidate @ Yale School of Medicine & Yale School of Public Health, training in health policy, LGBTQ health, Vanderbilt University alum, French speaker. Views are my own. he/him

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Solomon Center @ YLS @solomonctryls.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In a @jamanetworkopen.com study, Solomon Center student research fellow @kylegavulic.bsky.social and his co-authors found that underreporting of dementia diagnosis far exceeded that of other conditions and was associated with reduced postdiagnosis care engagement. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Dementia Diagnosis Underreporting and Care Engagement Among Older Adults
This cohort study compares underreporting of dementia diagnosis with that of other diagnosed conditions among persons with probable dementia and examines associations of underreporting with care engag...
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kylegavulic.bsky.social @kylegavulic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New study out w/ Yuting Qian and Xi Chen in @jamanetworkopen.com in which we find 67% of patients with a documented dementia dx do not report it. We investigate the patient- and system-level factors associated with underreporting, & whether it matters to postdiagnosis care and end-of-life planning.
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Dementia Diagnosis Underreporting and Care Engagement Among Older Adults
This cohort study compares underreporting of dementia diagnosis with that of other diagnosed conditions among persons with probable dementia and examines associations of underreporting with care engag...
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Yale LGBTQ Mental Health Initiative @yalelgbtqmhi.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
📣New paper in JAMA Pediatrics by YSPH MD/PhD student Kyle Gavulic, in collaboration with Drs. Pachankis and Aaron -- a timely addition to the scholarly conversation on the practice of "conversion therapy." Read the article here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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kylegavulic.bsky.social @kylegavulic.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Another great piece grappling w/ the tension of talk therapy as speech vs medical treatment, the threats this decision poses for states’ ability to enforce standards of care, and how this decision may undermine Chiles’s very own profession. @michaelrulrich.bsky.social www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Therapy’s Conversion — Chiles v. Salazar’s Threat to Mental Health Treatment and Standards of Care | NEJM
Chiles v. Salazar, a challenge to Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy, could seriously affect LGBTQ+ health, mental health professionals, and the legal relevance of standards of care.
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kylegavulic.bsky.social @kylegavulic.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Yes, the Chiles decision will be deleterious for LGBTQ populations and ALSO this article hits the nail on the head in terms of the broader concerns I have with the decision. How will this decision weaken states’ authority to regulate ANY discredited medical intervention that might involve speech?
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kylegavulic.bsky.social @kylegavulic.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🚨Update: The SCOTUS decision is HERE. The majority (8-1) decides CO’s SOGICE ban constitutes viewpoint discrimination, dismissing state police power to regulate medicine and the preponderance of evidence that SOGICE are associated with harm. Jackson dissents.🚨See our recs on how to take action.
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Solomon Center @ YLS @solomonctryls.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Writing for @jamapediatrics.com, @solomonctryls.bsky.social student fellow Kyle Gavulic and co-authors @medlawdan.bsky.social and John Pachankis assess the history and regulation of conversion therapy as SCOTUS weighs the constitutionality of banning the practice. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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“Conversion Therapy” in the US
This Viewpoint discusses the practice of sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts in the US, despite their association with harms, and offers recommendations for regulation and how to sup...
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Daniel G. Aaron, MD, JD @medlawdan.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
LGBTQ+ population health hangs in the balance @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social @yalesph.bsky.social @sjquinney.bsky.social I'd also recommend this piece by Jack Turban and Michal Ulrich in @jamapediatrics.com : jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Chiles vs Salazar—Conversion Efforts Bans and Free Speech
This Viewpoint discusses an upcoming US Supreme Court case that will examine whether Colorado’s ban on conversion efforts for minors appropriately regulates substandard clinical practice or is a viewp...
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Daniel G. Aaron, MD, JD @medlawdan.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
NEW): I have a paper in @jamapediatrics.com with @kylegavulic.bsky.social & John Pachankis describing the harmful history of "conversion therapy" & current efforts to revive it, including a Supreme Court case that may grant constitutional protections to practitioners jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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kylegavulic.bsky.social @kylegavulic.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
New piece with @medlawdan.bsky.social and John Pachankis @yalesph.bsky.social on “conversion therapy” (SOGICE) in the US, motivated by Chiles v. Salazar heard by SCOTUS in October. This is espcially geared toward clincians, professional associations and policymakers to get out ahead of the decision.
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“Conversion Therapy” in the US
This Viewpoint discusses the practice of sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts in the US, despite their association with harms, and offers recommendations for regulation and how to sup...
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Daniel G. Aaron, MD, JD @medlawdan.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
NEW: Paper in @jama.com (me, Glenn Cohen, & @drsinhaesq.bsky.social) discusses FDA plan to approve leucovorin for new indication based on "case reports" and "mechanistic data" 1. Departure from FDA's evidentiary standards 2. May harm patients and set bad precedent jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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JAMA Health Forum @jamahealthforum.com · 08/11/2025
Neighborhoods with high levels of both historical and contemporary structural racism, such as redlining and modern segregation, experienced higher rates of opioid overdose deaths, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. ja.ma/4otrgG3
Side-by-side maps of Chicago census tracts show neighborhood trajectories of racism. Map A (2017-2019) and Map B (2020-2022) use color-coding: yellow (sustained advantaged), green (contemporary advantaged), blue, purple, and gray
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Larry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
When is the point of no return for extending ACA tax credits? They expire 12/31, so that’s a drop dead date. Open enrollment starts November 1. If they’re not extended by then, enrollees may start dropping out. Even if open enrollment is extended, people could be hard to reach.
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kylegavulic.bsky.social @kylegavulic.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#NOKINGS Cheshire, CT!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I just signed this. Please consider do so as well. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...
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Trump attacks 9 universities: Sign the alumni petition to defend your school now
Are you an alum outraged by Trump's attacks on universities? Defend your school now by signing this alumni petition in support of these 9 universities as well as campus communities across America.
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Join the 24-hour #SaveAIDSResearch livestream starting TODAY, Tuesday, September 16th at 11a ET: www.youtube.com/live/fbza_tI... I’ll hosting 2-4p ET today and 9-10a ET tomorrow morning. Join us!
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kylegavulic.bsky.social @kylegavulic.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Words cannot express the gratitude I hold to be able to work alongside my friends & colleagues in the TGD community, & an incredible multidisciplinary team of clinicians, to push fwd the frontier of equitable & inclusive UME. If you've never been to @glma-lgbthealth.bsky.social, I highly recommend.
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Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo @kbibbinsdomingo.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Please to write this @washingtonpost.com Op-Ed with Eric Rubin about the importance of independent medical journals like ours @nejm.org & @jama.com wapo.st/4kUqfV9
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Opinion | This system is critical to Americans’ health. We must defend it.
Medical progress depends on independent journals to advance science without political interference.
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kylegavulic.bsky.social @kylegavulic.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Senate passes the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” with JD Vance’s tie-breaking vote. Now back to the House where there remains hope to still defeat this deeply harmful and unpopular bill.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Justice Sotomayor: "Today's ruling ushers in that new reality."   "Exposing students to the 'message' that LGBTQ people exist, and that their loved ones may celebrate their marriages and life events, the majority says, enough to trigger the most demanding form of judicial scrutiny."
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STAT @statnews.com · 27/06/2025
#Breaking: Supreme Court rejects challenge to free preventive care, bolsters RFK Jr.’s power www.statnews.com/2025/06/27/s...
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Supreme Court rejects challenge to free preventive care, bolsters RFK Jr.'s power
The SCOTUS decision preserves free preventive health care and sets the stage for a bigger role for RFK Jr. in determining what's covered.
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Good news! SCOTUS has ruled that the US Preventive Services Task Force can continue determining which preventive care services must be covered at no cost - meaning everything from PrEP to cancer screenings must be covered. While this is good news, let’s continue to push for healthcare for all!
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Supreme Court endorses Obamacare panel that requires free preventive care
The case grew out of a conservative religious challenge to the approval of HIV prevention treatments that insurers are required to provide at no cost to patients.
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Proud of Dr Pachankis @yalesph.bsky.social and his team. While #mentalhealth care for LGBTQ+ Americans is being gutted … this team keeps doing the work. 🏳️‍🌈 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Taking the initiative: improving LGBT+ mental health through science - Nature Mental Health
Nature Mental Health - Taking the initiative: improving LGBT+ mental health through science
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
On this Juneteenth, I'm so happy to share my twin sister’s, Uché Blackstock, MD, powerful op-ed on Black children’s futures. As a Black mother and physician, she names the urgent need to protect and nurture our children especially in these challenging times. thehill.com/opinion/heal...
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Sarah Kate Ellis @sarahkateellis.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Young people can still contact The Trevor Project just as they always have by calling 1-866-488-7386, via chat at TheTrevorProject.org/Get-Help, or by texting START to 678678. (4/4)
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Get Help
Get immediate help 24/7/365. The Trevor Project's crisis counselors are just a text, chat, or phone call away. Completely confidential and free LGBTQ hotline.
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kylegavulic.bsky.social @kylegavulic.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Just because this Court chooses neither to acknowledge violations of the Equal Protection Clause in plain sight, nor to engage with the evidence base for gender affirming care, does not change the fact that this care is life-saving. The fight continues today and every day.
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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Nothing sums up the state of affairs for transgender Americans quite like the US Supreme Court denying trans people life-saving healthcare at the same time that the Trump administration shuts down suicide prevention programs for LGBTQ people. These bastards want us all dead.
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kylegavulic.bsky.social @kylegavulic.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Great coverage of the current state of LGBTQ mental health research in the words of Dr. John Pachankis @yalesph.bsky.social
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Taking the initiative: improving LGBT+ mental health through science - Nature Mental Health
Nature Mental Health - Taking the initiative: improving LGBT+ mental health through science
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kylegavulic.bsky.social @kylegavulic.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
As I was leaving the North Haven Pride fest, I ran into @delauro.house.gov on her way in. We spoke for a few min about the dire state of HHS & she held my hands the entire time. It really meant a lot, not to mention her making the time to attend the local Pride fest. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Thank you, Congresswoman!
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kylegavulic.bsky.social @kylegavulic.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
We the People will prevail #Nokings great showing in New Haven, CT!
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GLAAD @glaad.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
June 12th is Pulse Remembrance Day. Today we remember the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016.
June 12th is Pulse Remembrance Day.
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kylegavulic.bsky.social @kylegavulic.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Breaking: The 2022 US Trans Survey report is here! I have been itching for this report to come out for some time as the 2015 US Trans Survey has been such a valuable reference.
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Jason L. Schwartz @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
If people are interested in learning about the ACIP and its decades of contributions to US vaccine policy successes, here’s a short 2014 piece I wrote in NEJM with Adel Mahmoud (timed with its 50th anniversary) www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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A Half-Century of Prevention — The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices | NEJM
In 1964, after a vaccination program against polio, diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis began, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was created to advise the U.S. government on vaccinati...
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Daniel G. Aaron, MD, JD @medlawdan.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Excited to share that I've been awarded a Poynter fellowship to visit @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social. "Law, Politics & Medicine: Understanding the Executive Orders" will discuss Trump actions on DEI, opioids, and trans ppl, the underlying strategy, and ways to respond poynter.yale.edu/events/2025-...
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kylegavulic.bsky.social @kylegavulic.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
On HHS budget hearing with RFK Jr., Rep Watson Coleman demands SPECIFIC answers to her Qs about the CURRENT destructive decisions being made under his leadership. His response: "my time has expired." To which she responded, "& so has your legitimacy." Mic drop as she yielded back to the chairman.
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Reshma Ramachandran @reshmagar.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Must-read report from @sanders.senate.gov ahead of tomm's HELP hearing with HHS Secretary RFK Jr. detailing the many ways he & the President are destroying biomedical research, worsening healthcare access, & harming patients through misinformation: www.help.senate.gov/dem/newsroom... #MedSky #EpiSky
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NEWS: Sanders Releases Report Documenting Trump’s War on Science | The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
WASHINGTON, May 13 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released...
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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
After 35+ years, the National Cancer Institute seems to be ending its Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program If my sources are correct, this is a loss for cancer prevention—a field that saves lives before treatment is ever needed 🛡️💔 And also, it's a pipeline of future leaders—gone 1/🧵
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kylegavulic.bsky.social @kylegavulic.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Now seems like a good time to re-circulate this piece w/ @dusetzinas.bsky.social & @nathaliepelletier-fleury. The policy landscape has changed but the implementation challenges of tying US drug prices to those in peer countries remain... why not invest in our own health technology assessments?
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Peer Comparisons for Drug Price Setting: Why International Reference Pricing May Not Provide Optimal Prices
International reference pricing—tying US drug prices to those in other developed countries—has been proposed as a viable strategy for lowering US spending on prescription drugs. This concept was inclu...
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kylegavulic.bsky.social @kylegavulic.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
All universities must stand firmly united in rejecting these abhorrent new terms by the NIH. Everything is at stake. We must defend our commitment to all people no matter their background, especially the most marginalized and underrepresented, not capitulate to censorship and fascism.
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STAT @statnews.com · 21/04/2025
A STAT EXCLUSIVE NIH moving to ban all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts, document suggests www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t...
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NIH moving to ban all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts, document suggests
NIH appears to be preparing to prohibit the awarding of new grants to institutions that have DEI programs or boycott Israeli companies
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 18/04/2025
🏥HHS ELIMINATIONS💀 We have created a list of all agency and program eliminations proposed in the HHS 2026 Budget. Feds: Please let us know if you have any clarity to share. The cuts are massive. Reach out if you would like a PDF or xlsx @alt-hhs.altgov.info @altfda.altgov.info
An image of all agency and program eliminations proposed for HHS. Reach out to altCDC for an accessible version or filterable PDF. The alt-text box does not fit all the text contained.
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kylegavulic.bsky.social @kylegavulic.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Glad to see CT & other states rejecting the Trump admin’s attempt to kill invaluable DEI practices in education, check out this map by Education Week👇🏻
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kylegavulic.bsky.social @kylegavulic.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Great exercise of our First Amendment rights on Yale’s campus today. #HandsOff our universities, our education, our science and innovation, our rights to free speech, and all people no matter their place of origin! Hats off to Harvard - Yale, will you step up next??
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
BREAKING: On Friday, the federal government issued new demands of Harvard University. The university's lawyers just responded: back off.
April 14, 2025
VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL
Josh Gruenbaum
Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service
General Services Administration
Sean R. Keveney
Acting General Counsel
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Thomas E. Wheeler
Acting General Counsel
U.S. Department of Education
Dear Messrs. Gruenbaum, Keveney, and Wheeler:
We represent Harvard University. We are writing in response to your letter dated April 11,
2025, addressed to Dr. Alan Garber, Harvard’s President, and Penny Pritzker, Senior Fellow of the
Harvard Corporation.
Harvard is committed to fighting antisemitism and other forms of bigotry in its community.
Antisemitism and discrimination of any kind not only are abhorrent and antithetical to Harvard’s
values but also threaten its academic mission.
To that end, Harvard has made, and will continue to make, lasting and robust structural,
policy, and programmatic changes to ensure that the university is a welcoming and supportive
learning environment for all students and continues to abide in all respects with federal law across
its academic programs and operations, while fostering open inquiry in a pluralistic community free
from intimidation and open to challenging orthodoxies, whatever their source.
Over the past 15 months, Harvard has undertaken substantial policy and programmatic
measures. It has made changes to its campus use policies; adopted new accountability procedures;
imposed meaningful discipline for those who violate university policies; enhanced programs
designed to address bias and promote ideological diversity and civil discourse; hired staff to
support these programs and support students; changed partnerships; dedicated resources to combat
hate and bias; and enhanced safety and security measures. As a result, Harvard is in a very different
place today from where it was a year ago. These efforts, and additional measures the university
will be taking against antisemitism, not only are the right thing to do but also are critical to
strength…recognized by the Supreme Court. The government’s terms also circumvent Harvard’s statutory
rights by requiring unsupported and disruptive remedies for alleged harms that the government has
not proven through mandatory processes established by Congress and required by law. No less
objectionable is the condition, first made explicit in the letter of March 31, 2025, that Harvard
accede to these terms or risk the loss of billions of dollars in federal funding critical to vital research
and innovation that has saved and improved lives and allowed Harvard to play a central role in
making our country’s scientific, medical, and other research communities the standard-bearers for
the world. These demands extend not only to Harvard but to separately incorporated and
independently operated medical and research hospitals engaging in life-saving work on behalf of
their patients. The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional
rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the
federal government. Accordingly, Harvard will not accept the government’s terms as an agreement
in principle.
Harvard remains open to dialogue about what the university has done, and is planning to
do, to improve the experience of every member of its community. But Harvard is not prepared to
agree to demands that go beyond the lawful authority of this or any administration.
William A. Burck Robert K. Hur
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP 1300 I Street NW Suite 900 Suite 900
Washington, DC 20005 King & Spalding LLP
1700 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
New this evening (3/28): Major update in NIH grant termination numbers. ❌ 695 NIH grants now terminated (up from 429) ❌ 232 on HIV/AIDS ❌ 44 on cancer ❌ 28 on Alzheimer's ❌ 123 on Covid* *And this doesn't count cancelled non-NIH Covid grants. HUGE THANKS to @noamross.net for pushing the updates!
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kylegavulic.bsky.social @kylegavulic.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Another Trump rollback & loss for LGBTQ+ people: "On March 21, those fields [pertaining to sexual orientation and gender identity] were stripped overnight from the latest three versions of the standards [for the U.S. Core Data for Interoperability], which have yet to be required by any regulations."
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HHS will not enforce gender and sexual orientation requirements for medical records
HHS will not enforce standards that medical records be able to capture patients’ sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Amy Kapczynski @akapczynski.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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Statement from the Faculty Director of the LPE Project
Last week, Yale University fired Helyeh Doutaghi, from her position as the Deputy Director of the LPE Project. Yale was Helyeh’s employer (and is mine). I was not privy to their negotiations.
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Daniel G. Aaron, MD, JD @medlawdan.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
New article: We discuss the role of executive orders for LGBTQI+ populations. It's important to remember the historic actions the last Administration took for LGBTQI+ health and equity -- efforts that are actively being dismantled. Great working with @kylegavulic.bsky.social, Gilbert, & Carson.
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