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It had started on Sept. 1, 2021, when he’d noticed Stanford health economist Jay Bhattacharya tweeting about a study Abaluck had done on the effects of masking on Covid-19 in Bangladesh.

In September 2024, just weeks before he was announced as Donald Trump’s nominee for director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Jay Bhattacharya sat across from John Papola, host of ...

Jay Bhattacharya, President Donald Trump’s nominee to direct the National Institutes of Health faced questions Wednesday during his Senate confirmation hearing about how he would lead the agency ...

An HHS task force responsible for oversight of childhood shots that was disbanded in 1998 is coming back. The Task Force on ...

Jay Bhattacharya, prominent physician and economist, nominated by Trump for NIH director The nominee for the NIH director must be confirmed by the Senate, which will have a Republican majority ...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is President Trump’s pick to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which has traditionally been the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. On March 5 ...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya during the 2023 Forbes Healthcare Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 5, 2023, in New York City. He remains a vocal critic of Dr. Anthony Fauci. Taylor Hill/Getty ...

Dr. Bhattacharya’s confirmation is about more than just public health—it is a referendum on how we, as a society, handle expertise, dissent, and policy-making in times of crisis.

Jay Bhattacharya now top candidate to be Trump’s pick for NIH director The Stanford-trained physician and economist, who won GOP support after pushing back on covid lockdowns, is said to have ...