President-elect Trump has picked Stanford College professor Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., to guide the Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH). The announcement got here on Tuesday by the transition crew.
In the course of the pandemic, Bhattacharya expressed criticisms of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates. “Bhattacharya turned the face…of a fiercely disputed open letter – referred to 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 in control of implementing the incoming Trump administration’s objectives to reform the company. “The Nationwide Institutes of Well being is a virtually $48 billion company that invests a lot of its sources in funding tens of hundreds of analysis grants. However a few of Bhattacharya’s personal medical analysis has stirred controversy within the medical neighborhood.”
Zhang added that Trump’s alternative for Well being and Human Companies (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 study the underlying causes of, and options to, America’s greatest well being challenges, together with our disaster of persistent sickness and illness,” Trump stated 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 wonderful science to make America wholesome once more!”
