White House seeks to cut funding for brain injury research

Hospitals and universities conducting TBI research funded by the CDC are bracing for potential funding cutbacks. Christine Baugh, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado's School of Medicine who is studying how parents decide whether to let their children play contact sports and whether brain-injury awareness campaigns influence their decisions said, "We might not [get] the next year of renewal or the next wave of funding. And that's sad and scary and impactful for all kinds of people, including myself in this project."