MedPage Today November 20, 2024
— Stanford professor is most closely associated with the Great Barrington Declaration
Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, of Stanford University in California, has emerged as President-elect Donald Trump’s top pick to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), according to reporting from the Washington Post.
Amid Trump’s stated plans to “restructure federal agencies,” Bhattacharya would indeed be an outsider coming in to lead the NIH. And Bhattacharya has previously said he believes top officials there hold too much influence.
Notably, Bhattacharya garnered attention during the pandemic for a document called the Great Barrington Declaration.
Written by Bhattacharya and two other public health experts from Harvard and Oxford, the declaration encouraged governments to lift lockdown restrictions on young and healthy people and...
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