AHRQ Director: After Decade of Drift, AHRQ Returns to Core Mission

This January 13, 2026 article in Newsweek by AHRQ Director Roger Klein and Confidential Assistant to the AHRQ Director Elliot Anderson discusses the authors' views that AHRQ's long-standing focus on studies that were "grounded in evidence that clinicians and policymakers could actually use … unraveled" after 2015 with a new focus on equity and DEI. The article discusses how "the Trump era represents AHRQ's abandonment of 'woke' advocacy and its return to its role as an independent evaluator of the health care system."