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Many US #health agencies are operating with interim heads.

Among the vacant positions are the director of the #InfectiousDisease agency; #SurgeonGeneral; head of the Food & Drug Administration [#FDA]; deputy health secretary; & head of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention [#CDC] — a leadership vacuum that observers say is unprecedented.

#Trump #nationalism #BrainDrain #medicine #science #research #PublicHealth #NIAID #WHO

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Nonilex 4d ago

The #Trump admin issued the directive stopping individuals at the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases [#NIAID] from communicating with the #WHO.

The federal #health subagency was led for decades by Dr. #AnthonyFauci & oversaw developing treatments for #PublicHealth emergencies including #HIV / #AIDs & #COVID19.

#nationalism #BrainDrain #medicine #science #research #global #virus #InfectiousDisease

Nonilex 4d ago

#Trump admin shutting key #US researchers out of #global #virus response talks, documents & sources reveal

Key officials responsible for leading US #research on #InfectiousDisease threats have been #barred from speaking directly with the #WorldHealthOrganization [#WHO] — effectively shutting some of them out of the global discussions on virus #outbreaks, according to documents & multiple sources.

#nationalism #BrainDrain #medicine #science #health #PublicHealth #NIAID
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/25/politics/global-virus-response-trump-administration

Exclusive: Trump admin shutting key US researchers out of global virus response talks, documents and sources reveal

Officials responsible for leading US research on infectious disease threats have been barred from speaking directly with the World Health Organization – effectively shutting them out of global discussions on virus outbreaks, according to documents and multiple sources who spoke to CNN.

CNN

BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨‍💻May 20

Brain Drain @ OpenAI continues.

Andrej Karpathy a founding member of OpenAI is joining Anthropic and will focus on building out Anthropic's pretraining research .... https://www.axios.com/2026/05/19/anthropic-openai-karpathy-andrej-claude #AI #Karpathy #Anthropic #OpenAI #BrainDrain #Pretraining #Claude #LLMs #FrontierAI

Salman Mehdi May 12

Pakistan raised Sualeh Asif. MIT and Silicon Valley kept him. Now he is a billionaire behind a $60B AI deal. His talent came from Karachi. The patents, jobs, and wealth went elsewhere. That is brain drain. Fix the system, not the people. #Pakistan #BrainDrain #AIStartups thedissidentvoice.org/2026/05/cursor-spacex-and-pakistans-brain-drain/

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬May 8

Trump Slashed #Science Funding. Now the #US Could Face a Costly #BrainDrain.
The White House’s continued attacks on #academia and its funding cuts to scientific research have provided an opening for other countries to poach the type of researchers and #scientists who have helped make #America the world’s leader in medical and technology breakthroughs. That brain drain could be very costly for the U.S. economy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/business/dealbook/trump-brain-drain-academia.html
https://archive.ph/AcSbc

Trump Slashed Science Funding. Now the U.S. Could Face a Costly Brain Drain.

The White House’s attacks on academia and budget cuts for research have provided an opening for other countries to poach leading scientists.

The New York Times

The Times of Central Asia Apr 30

Kazakhstan is investing in world-class talent, but without stronger return incentives, it risks training its brightest minds for other economies https://ow.ly/A1WK50YSzBH #Education #BrainDrain #Talent #Economy #Kazakhstan #TalentRetention

Opinion: Kazakhstan's Human Ca...

Opinion: Kazakhstan's Human Capital Problem - How State Scholarships Are Building a Talent Pipeline for the West - The Times Of Central Asia

Kazakhstan spends millions of dollars every year sending its brightest students to the world's best universities through two flagship programs: the Nazarbayev

The Times Of Central Asia