President-elect Trump has picked Stanford College professor Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., to steer the Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH). The announcement got here on Tuesday by the transition workforce.
Through the pandemic, Bhattacharya expressed criticisms of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates. “Bhattacharya grew to become the face…of a fiercely disputed open letter – often called the Nice Barrington Declaration – that opposed widespread lockdowns,” BBC reported earlier.
Rachel Cohrs Zhang reported for STAT that if confirmed by the Senate, Bhattacharya could be accountable for implementing the incoming Trump administration’s targets to reform the company. “The Nationwide Institutes of Well being is an almost $48 billion company that invests a lot of its sources in funding tens of 1000’s of analysis grants. However a few of Bhattacharya’s personal medical analysis has stirred controversy within the medical group.”
Zhang added that Trump’s alternative for Well being and Human Providers (HHS) secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has recommended changing lots of of NIH workers.
“Collectively, Jay and RFK Jr. will restore the NIH to a gold normal of medical analysis as they look at the underlying causes of, and options to, America’s greatest well being challenges, together with our disaster of power sickness and illness,” Trump mentioned in a press release.
Bhattacharya posted on X the next assertion: “We’ll reform American scientific establishments in order that they’re worthy of belief once more and can deploy the fruits of fantastic science to make America wholesome once more!”
