Sarah LaRosa

Sarah Spivack LaRosa is a Cedars-Sinai communications and editorial professional whose work includes health, research, and innovation stories for Cedars-Sinai publications. She has been credited as an author, senior editor, and associate editor on Cedars-Sinai content, and her public profile describes leading B2C and B2B communications channels for Cedars-Sinai.

Politicized Science Policy Threatens America’s Biomedical Research Ecosystem

Former NIH director Elias Zerhouni argues in Disease Knows No Politics that American biomedical strength depends on a political compact now under strain: science can survive political fights only if evidence, peer review, civil-service independence, immigrant talent, and patient trust remain protected. Drawing on his path from Algeria to Johns Hopkins and the NIH, he warns that separate decisions on funding, universities, immigration, drug pricing, and grant rules can combine to weaken the research system that made the United States a biomedical leader.

The Aspen InstituteJun 24, 202619 min read