HHS opens DEI investigation into health education scholarship in DC

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The Trump administration on Friday launched an investigation into a Washington, D.C., medical organization accused of using race-based criteria for a research scholarship funded by the Department of Health and Human Services.

An HHS official told the Washington Examiner that the HHS Office of Civil Rights opened the investigation following a complaint that the organization, Academy Health, offers a health services research scholarship that excludes white applicants because they are not members of underrepresented racial or ethnic minority groups.

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