The Harvard School of Public Health dismisses employees, narrowing its footprint on the campus and makes targeted cuts to ministerial budgets in response to the climbing of attacks by the Trump administration against Harvard – including the shooting more than $ 2 billion in federal funding And threaten university’s eligibility To register international students.
The budget at HSPH, the most Harvard School depends on federal fundscomes after the school received three Stopping work orders worth more than $ 60 million in the last two days and as a neighbor, Harvard Medical School, warned employees of imminent layoffs Wednesday.
HSPH layoffs have already started to take place and have above all had an impact on staff and researchers whose projects in schools have lost funding this year. HSPH does not target a specific number of layoffs and intends to honor the existing commitments to the teachers.
HSPH spokesperson Stephanie Simon wrote in a statement that the school faces a “important budgetary crisis” and adopts a targeted approach to budgetary austerity by working to “identify strategic priorities and make sustainable budgetary reductions”.
“Unfortunately, this will lead to layoffs,” Simon wrote.
The school also leaves their leases on two buildings and assesses their agreements with other buildings to reduce expenses “by consolidating itself on our main campus”, according to Simon.
The first building is located at 90 Smith Street and houses the HSPH human resources office and the Harvard University Police Service Office for the Longwood campus. The second lease is for the fourth floor of the historic center, a 40,000 square feet space which houses laboratories, student and graduates offices and classrooms.
HSPH has not yet issued ministerial budgets, but he asked the services to model potential budgetary scenarios and estimate how everyone would have an impact on their research and educational operations.
The movements follow several measures to reduce costs instituted last month – in particular Reduce intake pools For many of his doctorate. Programs and interrupt his search for a research dean – in anticipation of budgetary pressures. Federal research funding composed 46% of HSPH income during the year 2025.
Last month, at least a dozen subsidies in HSPH had been dismissed. One of the three working orders at stops received in the last two days affects the $ 60 million contract by Professor HSPH Sarah Fortune who supported an international collective of researchers in tuberculosis. The other two subsidies focused on sequencing breast cancer tumors and the relationship between coffee consumption and cancer.
The tightening of the bag occurs while the White House has increased its pressure campaign against Harvard in the last two days. The Internal Revenue Service is Planning to revoke the university tax exemption statusCNN reported on Wednesday.
And on the same day, the Ministry of Internal Security sent a letter to Harvard threatening to Take your eligibility to international students under the condition that the University shares information on disciplinary files of international students and participation in events.
About 40% of the HSPH student body is international. Simon cited DHS threats to the international registration of students as a factor contributing to the increasing budgetary crisis of the school.
“We are working to minimize the impact on our exceptional workforce while protecting the hearts of our research and educational missions,” wrote Simon.
Clarification: April 17, 2025
This article has been updated to clarify that the layoffs have been concentrated in laboratories that have been affected by the loss or dropping out of subsidies so far this semester, not specifically following the most recent freezing of Trump of $ 2.2 billion in funding commitments.
Correction: April 17, 2025
A previous version of this article has poorly spelled the family name of the spokesperson for HSPH Stephanie Simon on a reference.
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