Patrick Kelly, a doctoral student at Brown University School of Public Health, shifted from interest in science to public health, focusing on social influences in healthcare. He applied for the Diversity F31 grant to fund his research on how socio-political factors and stigma affect medical decisions among marginalized communities. However, following a policy change by the NIH, which linked funding to political stances on DEI and Israeli companies, Kelly's fellowship was terminated, adversely affecting his and others' research plans and careers.
On April 21, the NIH announced it would no longer fund any program or research at an institution that has DEI programs or boycotts Israeli companies, using research funding as political leverage.
Kelly had applied for a competitive grant from the National Institutes of Health to externally fund his doctoral research, with a focus on social influences on medical decision-making.
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