Healthcare Innovation November 27, 2024
Dr. Bhattacharya, a US COVID policy critic, has been nominated by Trump to lead the country’s top public funder of medical research
President-elect Trump has picked Stanford University professor Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The announcement came on Tuesday by the transition team.
During the pandemic, Bhattacharya expressed criticisms of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates. “Bhattacharya became the face…of a fiercely disputed open letter – known as the Great Barrington Declaration – that opposed widespread lockdowns,” BBC reported earlier.
Rachel Cohrs Zhang reported for STAT that if confirmed by the Senate, Bhattacharya would be in charge of implementing the incoming Trump administration’s goals to reform the agency. “The National Institutes of Health is...
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