Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who has faced restrictions on social media platforms because of his views, was a critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates.

Donald Trump plans to nominate Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford professor known for his criticism of Covid lockdowns, to lead the National Institutes of Health.

Click in for more news from The Hill{beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Trump picks Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead NIH The nomination completes the

President-elect Donald Trump has picked economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, to lead the National Institutes of Health, which is US's leading medical research agency, where he will work in collaboration with Robert F.

The NIH is responsible for researching emerging health threats and chronic diseases, a budget of more than $47 billion has been allocated to the institute.

President-elect Donald Trump nominated health economist Jay Bhattacharya to serve as the next director of the National Institutes of Health, a federal agency that spends most

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Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic whom Trump nominated to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Both nominations are subject to Senate confirmation. "Together, Jay and RFK Jr. will restore the NIH to a Gold Standard of Medical Research as they examine the underlying causes of,