Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health is bracing for the possibility of losing as much as half of its federal research funding in the coming years, some $100 million annually, prompting the school to take extraordinary measures, such as asking corporations to underwrite the tuition of PhD candidates.
The school has already laid off an undisclosed number of staffers, reduced its class of Ph.D. students by nearly half, and shelved research projects because of a harsh new reality: the government is shifting away from funding public health.
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