{"684256":{"#nid":"684256","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Study Reveals Risk of Widening Divide in Global Health Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThere\u2019s good news and bad news in the world of global health research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe good news is that the gap between what health scientists are studying and the actual worldwide disease burden has narrowed since 1999. That\u2019s according to a new study from a global team of health policy researchers, including Georgia Tech\u2019s Cassidy R. Sugimoto.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe bad news? The study shows the improvement was mostly accidental, and things are likely to start getting worse again \u2014 especially if the U.S. follows through on plans to cut global health research funding.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOur current situation is going to lead to an increasing imbalance between the diseases burdening the world and the research that is produced,\u201d said \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/sugimoto-cassidy\u0022\u003ESugimoto\u003C\/a\u003E, the Tom and Marie Patton Chair in the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo read more about the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-025-03923-0#article-info\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022(opens in a new window)\u0022\u003Epaper, \u003C\/a\u003Epublished Aug. 27, 2025, in \u003Cem\u003ENature Medicine\u003C\/em\u003E, read our \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/featured-news\/2025\/08\/global-health-research-gap-study\u0022\u003Efull story\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EChanging disease patterns and funding uncertainties risk undoing decades of progress, researchers say\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Changing disease patterns and funding uncertainties risk undoing decades of progress, researchers say"}],"uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2025-08-28 15:40:53","changed_gmt":"2025-09-04 15:01:41","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677842":{"id":"677842","type":"image","title":"AdobeStock_377921625-rsm.jpg","body":null,"created":"1756395661","gmt_created":"2025-08-28 15:41:01","changed":"1756395661","gmt_changed":"2025-08-28 15:41:01","alt":"A lab worker fills pipettes.","file":{"fid":"261788","name":"AdobeStock_377921625-rsm.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/28\/AdobeStock_377921625-rsm.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/08\/28\/AdobeStock_377921625-rsm.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":191047,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/08\/28\/AdobeStock_377921625-rsm.jpg?itok=WV8ZQIu_"}}},"media_ids":["677842"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:michael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMichael Pearson\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["michael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}