NIH imposes "civil rights" certification as a term of award (NOT-OD-25-090)
- Date
- Actor
- National Institutes of Health
- Type
- Funding action (grant terms and conditions)
Summary
Guide Notice NOT-OD-25-090 (April 21, 2025) added a civil-rights term to all new and continuing domestic awards requiring recipients to certify they do not operate DEI programs deemed to violate federal anti-discrimination law — with "discriminatory equity ideology" defined by reference to EO 14190, whose definition encompasses gender-identity-related concepts — and do not boycott Israel, with NIH reserving the right to terminate awards and claw back funds for violations. NIH simultaneously stripped diversity-recruitment and diversity-plan requirements from applications and training grants.
Status
NOT-OD-25-090 was rescinded June 12, 2025 and replaced by NOT-OD-25-124; certification-style award terms persisted in successor form. The APHA court's vacatur covered the research-priority directives rather than these award terms.
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