AAMC - Association of American Medical Colleges
04/02/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/02/2025 12:10
AAMC Statement on Mass Layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services
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AAMC Statement on Mass Layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services
April 2, 2025
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AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, issued the following statement on the commencement of layoffs and reorganization at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS):
"The work that the Department of Health and Human Services carries out each day touches the lives of every American. As part of the HHS reorganization, critical leaders were laid off, reassigned, or placed on administrative leave. These actions are likely to slow scientific advancement and negatively impact the health and well-being of the American people.
These are sweeping changes to the federal health infrastructure, and we wish to work with the administration to understand how the health of Americans will be impacted. As the nation faces critical health challenges - and the potential for life-saving medical advancements is based on federally supported research - the AAMC remains committed to and ready to work with the leadership of HHS in our mission to improve the health of all patients, families, and communities. We continue to be steadfast in our commitment to advancing medical research that leads to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cures for patients and communities; ensuring access to high-quality care; and building and strengthening a physician and biomedical research workforce that reflects the needs of all Americans."
The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) is a nonprofit association dedicated to improving the health of people everywhere through medical education, health care, biomedical research, and community collaborations. Its members are all 160 U.S. medical schools accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education; 12 accredited Canadian medical schools; nearly 500 academic health systems and teaching hospitals, including Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers; and more than 70 academic societies. Through these institutions and organizations, the AAMC leads and serves America's medical schools, academic health systems and teaching hospitals, and the millions of individuals across academic medicine, including more than 210,000 full-time faculty members, 99,000 medical students, 162,000 resident physicians, and 60,000 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the biomedical sciences. Through the Alliance of Academic Health Centers International, AAMC membership reaches more than 60 international academic health centers throughout five regional offices across the globe. Learn more at aamc.org.
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