Trump names COVID lockdown skeptic to lead NIH, another sign of shifts in key agencies
President-elect Trump selected a critic of COVID-19 lockdowns and mandates to lead the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is known for co-authoring the Great Barrington Declaration, a 2020 manifesto that advocated allowing COVID to spread in order to achieve herd immunity.
Trump Picks Stanford Critic of Covid Lockdowns to Head NIH
President elect Donald Trump nominated health policy researcher Jay Bhattacharya to head the US National Institutes of Health, the sprawling agency that oversees close to $50 billion in biomedical research spending.
Trump picks Covid lockdown skeptic as head of key national health agency
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a Stanford-educated physician who gained prominence after questioning the efficacy of social distancing at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic
Trump turns to critic of COVID mandates to run NIH
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford health researcher, is in line to lead the National Institutes of Health. Early in the pandemic he argued against lockdowns and focusing on people at highest risk.
Medicine professor Jay Bhattacharya, COVID lockdown critic, selected to lead NIH
The Stanford professor was appointed Tuesday to lead the National Institutes of Health. Bhattacharya has previously made controversial critiques of lockdowns and vaccine mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Who is Dr Jay Bhattacharya, critic of US pandemic policies now nominated by Donald Trump as NIH director
The National Institutes of Health is the United States’ medical research agency, like the Indian Council of Medical Research based in New Delhi, but with an exponentially larger budget
Trump taps Jay Bhattacharya to lead NIH, rounding out health team
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Trump’s NIH Pick Guaranteed to Destroy Country’s Health
Trump announced Bhattacharya as his choice to lead the agency Tuesday night, drawing on the suggestion from his adviser and pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy. The department oversees the NIH.
Trump Taps Bhattacharya to Lead National Institutes of Health
Bhattacharya's nomination, alongside Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mehmet Oz, indicates potential shifts in vaccine policy under the Trump administration.
Trump completes health team with Jay Bhattacharya as NIH pick
President-elect Trump completed his health team by picking Stanford University professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as his next director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Trump, in the Tuesday announcement on TruthSocial,
Trump picks Stanford professor, COVID lockdown critic to lead health agency
President-elect Donald Trump selected a Stanford University professor to lead the National Institutes of Health, the country’s top medical research agency. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who teaches health policy at the university,
Trump picks Jay Bhattacharya, who backed COVID herd immunity, to lead National Institutes of Health
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Bhattacharya is a physician and professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, and is a critic of ...
Trump announces NIH chief and flurry of other appointments
Trump selected Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to serve as director of the National Institutes of Health and work with Robert F. Kennedy ...