Advisory Board December 2, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump last week announced he’s selected Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University-trained physician, to lead NIH and Jim O’Neill, a Silicon Valley investor and former federal health official, to be HHS deputy secretary.
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Trump nominates Bhattacharya as NIH director
In a statement last week, Trump said Bhattacharya “will work in cooperation with [HHS Secretary nominee] Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to direct the Nation’s Medical Research, and to make important discoveries that will improve Health, and save lives.”
Bhattacharya is a physician, former research fellow at the Hoover Institution, and an economist at the RAND Corporation who rose to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic as a critic of the federal government’s response...
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