Abolish the NIH equity and diversity office and end conference quotas
What the document says“the NIH Office of Equity,”
The full passage asks that the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion be abolished, and that the practice of refusing to sponsor scientific conferences without a certain number of women panelists be ended, which the chapter says violates federal civil rights law against sex discrimination.
What the document actually says“the NIH Office of Equity,”
One office at the NIH works on fairness and diversity.
The NIH has an office for fairness and diversity. The book says it pushes unlawful rules. It wants the office closed.
Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing
2025-01-20 · 90 FR 8339
EO 14151 orders every agency head, within 60 days, to terminate all DEI and DEIA offices and positions, which covers the NIH Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. The order never names NIH or that office, leaves each closure to the agency to the maximum extent allowed by law, and says nothing about the conference sponsorship practice the passage also asks to end. The candidate the search ranked first, EO 14185, ends DEI programs inside the Armed Forces only.
The order gives each agency 60 days to end all DEI offices, as far as the law allows. That covers the health office the book named. But the order names neither that office nor its agency. Each agency judges how far to go. The book also asked for an end to funds for some meetings, which is not covered.
8 agency rules
- Medicare Program; Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals (IPPS) and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Policy Changes and Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Rates; Changes to the FY 2025 IPPS Rates Due to Court Decision; Requirements for Quality Programs; and Other Policy Changes; Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Electronic Prescribing, Real-Time Prescription Benefit and Electronic Prior AuthorizationHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Office of the Secretary · August 4, 2025
- Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise in Airport Concessions Program Implementation ModificationsTransportation Department · October 3, 2025
- Reissuance and Modification of Nationwide PermitsDefense Department, Engineers Corps · January 8, 2026
- Combating Gender Ideology in Foreign AssistanceState Department · January 27, 2026
- Combating Discriminatory Equity Ideology in Foreign Assistance RulesState Department · January 27, 2026
- Protecting Life in Foreign AssistanceState Department · January 27, 2026
- Medicare Program; Alternative Payment Model Updates and the Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) ModelHealth and Human Services Department, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · June 1, 2026
- Disadvantaged Business Enterprise and Airport Concession Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program RevisionsTransportation Department, Office of the Secretary · September 25, 2026
Each of these names the order above in its own summary, preamble or filing. That is a fact about the document, not a finding that it carries out this proposal: it is one step further away than the order is, and what it does about the proposal is a reading nobody has made here.