Trump nominates Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to head National Institutes of Health
- President-Elect Donald Trump nominated Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to head the National Institutes of Health during his second term.
- Bhattacharya will collaborate with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to direct national medical research and address health challenges.
- Bhattacharya, a critic of pandemic lockdowns,’s nomination highlights the COVID pandemic's ongoing political influence on public health.
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Trump Nominates Dr. Jay Bhattacharya To Lead NIH
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday night that he has nominated Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, to serve as Director of the National Institutes of Health. “Dr. Bhattacharya will work in cooperation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to direct the Nation’s Medical Research, and to make important discoveries that will improve Health, and save lives,” Trump ...
Trump’s health team: RFK Jr. and 5 doctors tapped to lead ‘MAHA’
President-elect Trump has finished making selections for the top public health roles in his incoming administration after he issued a flurry of nominations late Friday and tapped a leader for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Wednesday. Trump pledged to shake up health care in the U.S. during his campaign, and his picks to…
Anti-lockdown researcher Trump’s pick to lead National Institutes of Health • Tennessee Lookout
A National Institutes of Health Pediatric Oncology Branch POB researcher's lab jacket. The NIH consists of 27 different centers and institutes that each focus on health challenges facing Americans. President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday he would nominate Stanford University researcher Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead the wide-ranging agency. (Photo credit: NIH)WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he has selected a Stanford …
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