In 2024, the National Institutes of Health spent $1,873,899,133 "studying racism".
$915,783,714 was spent studying various aspects of "systemic racism."
The NIH approved one grant for $125,927 to study "Examining Anti-Racist Healing in Nature".
They spent $197,747 on a project called, "Measuring the Impact of Structural Gendered Racism on Black Women’s Cognitive Aging"
The NIH "invested" $243,000 on a project for "Understanding and addressing structural racism and its impact on the quality of end-of-life care in older Black adults".
Then, they sank another $516,211 into studying "Effects of Racism on Brain and Physiological Pathways to Health Disparities".
They must think racism can cause"hypertension disparities", since they spent $576,188 "Examining the Impact, Pathways, and Cost of County-Level Structural Racism on Hypertension Disparities in Black and White US Adults".
Sometimes the NIH gave money to other projects; for example:
$711,463 "Promoting Color Brave Conversations in Families."
$629,342 a project that would supposedly "Transform Health Equity Research in Integrated Primary Care".
$151,622 on "Perceived racism, cardiovascular disease risk, and neurocognitive aging".
$77,284 studying "Neighborhood-level Structural Racism and Cardiovascular Health Among African American Youth and Young Adults".
$620,112 was spent on "Structural Racism and Disparities in Social Risk, Human Capital, Health Care Resources, and Health Outcomes: A Multi-level Analysis of Pathways and Policy Levers for Change".
$298,675 on "The Contribution of Structural Racism to the Long-Term Effects of Natural Disaster on Behavioral Health Outcomes".
$680,304 went on "Illuminating the role of historical structural racism in the neighborhood".
$432,837 studying the "Impact of structural racism on hospital/clinic closures, community assets, and health outcomes in urban communities".
$819,651 for "DiSRUPT: Dismantling Structural Racism Underlying the Organization of Ambulatory PracTices: an observational study of clinical desegregation".
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