Immigrants make up a significant portion of the medical and scientific community at all levels, from students all the way to senior faculty. But the Trump administration’s new policies will make it hard for institutions to bring in new international talent and possibly retain the key contributors.
Host Patti Tripathi talks with medical historian Eram Alam, PhD, Harvard University, and ATS Past-President Lynn Schnapp, MD, ATSF, University of Wisconsin, about how the fields of respiratory medicine and research are losing the best and the brightest, and what that means for public health.
Learn more about the Hart-Celler Act: https://dissentmagazine.org/article/how-the-hart-celler-act-changed-america/
ATS Breathe Easy