Senior NIH official pushes MAHA strategy to skeptical ADA audience

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Richard Woychik, a senior adviser at the National Institutes of Health, defended the Make America Healthy Again movement to diabetes researchers at a conference in New Orleans, endorsing its agenda despite questions about steep funding cuts to biomedical research. During a fireside chat, Woychik faced sustained criticism over the strategy's potential impact on the nation's research enterprise, yet remained committed to the MAHA approach. The moment highlighted tension between the NIH leadership's policy direction and the concerns of the scientific community that depends on federal funding.