I Just Quit My Job at the NIH. I Have Major Concerns About Where Clinical Research Could Be Headed.

Many federal agencies' websites were effectively scrubbed of any information on diverse populations in medical research.

Clinical trials have long had issues with most of their participants being cis white men.

This lack of representation has allowed health disparities to fester, and in this new vacuum of information, these problems will only become more difficult to address.

The enrollment of clinical trial participants from underrepresented groups has been increasing by about 1.7 percent a year since 2000 .

The Trump administration has directed scientific agencies to comb grants for words including women, Black, Latinx , and LGBTQ .

These directives will not only affect what federal agencies are able to do to increase diversity but also likely to shake the trust of potential participants.