Jayanta Bhattacharya was born in 1968 in Kolkata, India. He has built a career that bridges medicine and economics. Through his research, teaching, and policy work, he has become a respected voice in ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice this week to lead the National Institutes of Health is a controversial Stanford researcher who was highly critical of the COVID-19 pandemic response, drawing ...

NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya discusses the challenges facing the agency. Pres. Trump's second term has caused uncertainty for the medical research community, with cuts to research funding and ...

Twenty-seven minutes into a town hall with staff last week, US National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya acknowledged that he was going to get into uncomfortable territory. “This one ...

In October 2020, two months before Covid-19 vaccines would become available in the US, Stanford health policy professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and two colleagues published an open letter calling for a ...

Harvard President Alan Garber addresses an audience at morning prayers Memorial Church in December 2024.By Frank S. Zhou National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya is the face of the ...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya told the Globe that he wants "scientists at every institution to be able to compete on the same level ...

President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH) suggested obese people should pay higher health insurance premiums, Newsweek can reveal. Jay Bhattacharya, a ...

President-elect Donald Trump chose health economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a critic of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates, to lead the National Institutes of Health, the nation's leading ...