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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced sweeping changes to federal public health publishing practices on Tuesday, signaling a major shift in the relationship between U.S. government health researchers and some of the world’s most influential scientific and medical journals.
Speaking on The Ultimate Human podcast, Kennedy named The New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and The Lancet as journals the Biden-era National Institutes of Health (NIH) would “probably” stop submitting research to.
He cited concerns over editorial bias, industry ties, and a lack of transparency.
The move comes as the Trump administration reevaluates how taxpayer-funded research is shared with the public and the broader scientific community.
According to Kennedy, the NIH is considering requiring each of its institutes to establish their own independent journals unless the current leading journals “change dramatically.”
One new venue is the Journal of the Academy of Public Health, co-founded by current NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary prior to their appointments in the Trump administration.
Kennedy also stated that approximately 20% of NIH’s budget will be allocated toward replication studies, as part of an effort to address the reproducibility crisis in scientific research.