{"id":11095,"date":"2025-12-17T19:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T01:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11095"},"modified":"2025-12-17T19:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T01:04:10","slug":"hhs-cuts-millions-in-grants-to-the-american-academy-of-pediatrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/12\/17\/hhs-cuts-millions-in-grants-to-the-american-academy-of-pediatrics\/","title":{"rendered":"HHS cuts millions in grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/hhs-cuts-millions-grants-american-academy-pediatrics-rcna249769\">NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move is an escalation in the agency\u2019s clash with the medical group, which is suing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u00a0over vaccine policy. The Department of Health and Human Services has terminated seven grants totaling millions of dollars to the American Academy of Pediatrics, escalating its confrontation with<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>the group, which is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/rfk-jr-sued-pediatricians-medical-groups-covid-vaccines-rcna217218\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"suing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a>&nbsp;over vaccine policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The grants supported initiatives aimed at reducing sudden infant deaths, improving teen and young adult health, preventing birth defects, such as fetal alcohol syndrome, and identifying autism early, according to an academy spokesperson.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"nnzcgCB QT\">nnzcgCB QT<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC News The move is an escalation in the agency\u2019s clash with the medical group, which is suing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u00a0over vaccine policy. The Department of Health and Human Services has terminated seven grants totaling millions of dollars to the American Academy of Pediatrics, escalating its confrontation with&nbsp;the group, which is&nbsp;suing Health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11096,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11095\/revisions\/11096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}