U.S. National Health Research Institute (NIH), the largest research institution in the United States, canceled dozens of meetings based on the Trump administration’s new guidelines for public communication on NIH staff.
One of the canceled meetings is the President’s Antibiotic Bacterial Consultation Committee. The meeting was shall be held from January 28th to 29th at the Litam Calton Hotel, the Pentagon Building, the Pentagon Building, Virginia.
The other is the AFCEA Health IT Summit, which was originally scheduled to be held at the Hilton Hotel Washington, Washington from January 27th to 29th. website. “Federal health institutions have received instructions to suspend all external communications. Therefore, for the greatest interests of our sponsors and participants, we decided to delay the event next week until later 2025.”
Nih did not respond to SKIFT’s comment request. A scientist who did not want to disclose the name of the National Institute of Health (NIH) stated that the meeting before February 1 has been canceled and let SKIFT consulted the Agency Minister of Health and Public Services (HHS) Agent Doros Fen A email sent by Dorothy Fink. The email immediately suspended the release of documents and public news.
The policy is affecting the meeting after February 1: According to the US Department of Health and Public Service, the first HHS industry summit was scheduled to be at the Nih Natcher Conference Center at Belsida, Maryland, from February 10th to 11th. It has been canceled to supervise NIH. NIH’s February and later activity calendar has been deleted from the NIH website.
Medical conference expenditure
According to data from the Medical Insurance and Medical Subsidy Service Center (CMS), the expenditure of the medical care industry at the medical conference in 2023 was $ 8 billion. Pat Schaumann, President of Schaumann Consulting Group and MPI Medical Conference Certificate (HMCC), said that the United States is expected to hold more than 1.5 million medical conferences this year and receive support from 1,800 pharmaceutical companies and 3,600 medical equipment companies.
Government employees usually play a key role in these meetings, whether they are speakers or participants.
“There are too many uncertainty,” Sahaman said. “I suggest that the medical conference planners be cautious, use common sense, and keep understand and be vigilant about what is happening.”
Jacqueline Beaulieu, PORETTA & ORR marketing, publicity and customer strategy senior director | Exhibition and event urging planners to prepare for all situations. Beaulieu said: “The affected people need to formulate the plan of A to Z.” “Prepare for short -term and long -term.”
Who pays for the cancellation meeting?
The cancellation of the government’s order may cause force majeure clauses, which means that conference planners do not bear the costs related to the party.
But what if the government only restricts employees’ participation? Joshua Grimes, a lawyer of Grimes Law Firm, said it was a gray area.
There are many third -party conferences like the Medical Association, not hosted by NIH, but relying on NIH personnel to speak or participate.
“If this affects your meeting, it is not clear whether the application of possibility. Planners should check the contract terms, but also discuss the situation with hotels and venue partners. The travel ban is well known. Maybe the meeting can still be in the meeting. Reduce the area of the room, the loss of personnel, reduce food and drinks, and continue to continue, “Gryims said.
