Seven former SGMRO staff placed on indefinite administrative leave

Personnel actionNIH

Date
Actor
NIH / HHS
Agency
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Type
Personnel action
Section
SUPPLEMENT: NIH'S SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITY RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE WAS DISMANTLED — DISTINCT FROM THE GRANT TERMINATIONS THE INDEX ALREADY COVERS

Summary

The same seven employees who had staffed the SGMRO until December 2024 were placed on indefinite administrative leave on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. The action came "without warning or explanation … leaving them blindsided and disheartened," according to Brittany Charlton, founding director of the LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. NIH issued no formal announcement of the office's closure or of any reassignment of its statutory or programmatic functions.

Status

In effect. Reporting as of February 27, 2026 describes the office as having been dismantled with "[n]o formal announcement explain[ing] the decision. The office simply stopped functioning."

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