Trump taps Stanford professor Jay Bhattacharya to lead NIH, says he will work with RFK Jr. to restore agency

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Jay Bhattacharya will serve as the director of the National Institutes of Health during his second term in the White House. Bhattacharya, a Stanford University professor and staunch critic of pandemic-era lockdowns, will be tasked with leading the federal government’s medical research efforts and will work “in cooperation” with incoming Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.Kennedy Jr., the president-elect said.“Jay is a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, an alternative to lockdowns proposed in October 2020,” Trump noted in his announcement. “Together, Jay and RFK Jr.

will restore the NIH to a Gold Standard of Medical Research as they examine the underlying causes of, and solutions to, America’s biggest Health challenges,” the 45th president added.This is a developing story.Check back for more....