The National Institutes of Health now has Jay Bhattacharya as its director.
With a budget of approximately $47.3 billion, the National Institutes of Health is the nation’s largest public supporter of medical research. President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who is of Indian descent, as its director.
Dr. Bhattacharya, a Stanford professor and US COVID policy critic, will collaborate with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to “restore the NIH to a Gold Standard of Medical Research as they examine the underlying causes of, and solutions to, America’s biggest health challenges, including our crisis of chronic illness and disease,” according to Trump’s announcement of his nomination.
Everything regarding Jay Bhattacharya
- In 1968, Jay Bhattacharya was born in Kolkata.
- After graduating from Stanford with a doctorate in medicine in 1997, Dr. Bhattacharya went on to acquire a Ph.D. in economics three years later.
- Dr. Bhattacharya is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research and a professor of health policy at Stanford University. The Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging at Stanford is led by him.
- With a focus on the role of government programs, biomedical innovation, and economics, his study focuses on the health and well-being of vulnerable groups.
- The epidemiology of COVID-19 and an assessment of governmental responses to the pandemic are the main topics of Dr. Bhattacharya’s most recent research.
- As a leading critic of the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Bhattacharya co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration, an open letter published in October 2020 that called for reversing shutdowns related to the virus while maintaining “focused protections” for vulnerable groups, including older Americans.
- Among other disciplines, he has authored 135 articles in prestigious peer-reviewed scientific journals in epidemiology, statistics, economics, public health, law, and medicine.
