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 crew.
Throughout the pandemic, Bhattacharya expressed criticisms of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates. “Bhattacharya grew to become the face…of a fiercely disputed open letter – generally known as 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 answerable 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 assets in funding tens of 1000’s of analysis grants. However a few of Bhattacharya’s personal medical analysis has stirred controversy within the medical neighborhood.”
Zhang added that Trump’s selection for Well being and Human Providers (HHS) secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has instructed changing a whole bunch of NIH workers.
“Collectively, Jay and RFK Jr. will restore the NIH to a gold normal of medical analysis as they study the underlying causes of, and options to, America’s greatest well being challenges, together with our disaster of persistent sickness and illness,” Trump mentioned in an announcement.
Bhattacharya posted on X the next assertion: “We are going to reform American scientific establishments in order that they’re worthy of belief once more and can deploy the fruits of wonderful science to make America wholesome once more!”
