Share Your NSF SBE Story

PAA is collecting examples of how steps the Administration has taken to undermine funding for the National Science Foundation would impact or may have already impacted population research and training activities. Specifically, the President's FY2027 budget released in April 2026 proposes to cut NSF funding by 55%, including eliminating the Social, Behavioral, and Economic (SBE) Sciences Directorate. In fact, it appears that NSF is already beginning to dismantle SBE even before the 2027 budget negotiations begin. (Note from COSSA.) 

The SBE Directorate is NSF's primary funder of population research, so we particularly welcome examples of population research currently funded through SBE. These examples will be used by PAA to help educate policymakers and the public regarding the consequences if SBE is eliminated. We are requesting your contact information so that we can follow-up as necessary, but please be assured that we will not share your name or other identifying information without requesting your further permission.

Please explain in lay language how the affected work could have led to improvements in the health and well-being of individuals, families, or communities; or enhanced the career of an emerging scholar; and/or advanced scientific progress in the population sciences, etc.

(i.e., how would you explain to a journalist in ~500 words how the public will be worse off because of these federal changes that adversely impacted your work?)