Over 200 Johns Hopkins employees will be laid off in May, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification the university submitted Thursday.

The Bloomberg School of Public Health and JHPIEGO, a nonprofit global health affiliate of the Baltimore institution, are primarily affected by the first batch of mass layoffs. JHPIEGO will experience 130 employee layoffs, while the school of public health will have 107.

The downsizing comes as the university sees $800 million in federal grants disappear, forcing it to cut more than 2,000 positions domestically and internationally overall.

Overall, Hopkins plans to eliminate 1,975 positions in 44 international countries and 247 in the U.S., the university said in a statement.

The 200 layoffs expected in May are included in this, according to Doug Donovan, director of media relations. An additional 29 international and 78 domestic employees will be furloughed with a reduced schedule.

The institution said U.S. employees would receive at least a two-month advance notice before their positions are cut or furloughed. Hopkins said it would provide support, benefits, assistance and resources to help employees navigate the transition, according to a spokesperson in a statement sent to The Baltimore Sun last week.

These scale-backs are a result of the Trump administration blocking federal spending across numerous agencies, like the National Institutes of Health, in an attempt to end waste. The cuts have immense effects on institutions like Hopkins that rely heavily on federal funding and receive indirect funding from the NIH.

Hopkins and a dozen other research institutions joined a federal lawsuit last month challenging NIH’s indirect cost-rate cuts.

The proposed NIH shortfall would put about 600 clinical trials in danger, according to a statement sent to The Sun last month from the university’s president, Ron Daniels, and Johns Hopkins Medicine CEO Theodore DeWeese. The indirect funding from NIH oftentimes kept the lights at Hopkins on, Daniels and DeWeese said in the statement.

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act requires employers with 100 or more workers to provide at least 60 days of advance written notice of a mass layoff at a single site of employment.

The layoffs for the school of public health and JHPIEGO go into effect May 12.

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