Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts

The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects, from breast-feeding support efforts in Baltimore to mosquito-net programs in Mozambique.

The cuts, which are in addition to threatened trims to National Institutes of Health grants, are related to the university’s work with the U.S. Agency for International Development. The school is preparing to shrink its Baltimore-based affiliated nonprofit, JHPIEGO, that since the 1970s has worked closely with the USAID and has already stopped work on a number of international health projects.

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Universities are already challenging some of the Trump administration’s cuts to institutions. In February, 13 schools including Johns Hopkins sued health agencies over a plan to severely cut how NIH support dollars for research, known as “indirect costs,” are awarded. The university stands to lose another $200 million if the cuts go through, a university administrator estimated in court filings. The NIH cuts are on pause while the legal challenge, from various universities, medical centers, and multiple state attorneys general, plays out.

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Nearly half of the school’s incoming funds last year were from research done on behalf of the federal government, said Johns Hopkins President Ronald Daniels said in a March 4 letter. “The breadth and depth of this historic relationship means that cuts to federal research will affect research faculty, students, and staff and will ripple through our university,” he wrote.

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The local impact would reach far and wide: In 2022, Johns Hopkins affiliates accounted for over 93,600 jobs and over $15 billion in economic output in Maryland, according to the figures in the institution’s latest economic impact report.


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