{
  "id": 585490,
  "title": "NIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policy",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/nih-limits-funding-for-research-on-the-health-effects-of-public-policy",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-11T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nature",
    "slug": "nature",
    "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02489-2"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has started rejecting research grant applications that primarily aim to inform policymakers and legislators, as revealed by internal documents obtained by Nature. This decision may result in fewer studies examining the impact of public policies on human health.",
  "summary": "Nature, Published online: 11 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02489-2 US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers as ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}