Trump Selects Jay Bhattacharya as NIH Chief

The physician is a professor of health policy at Stanford University.

Stanford University professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a founding fellow of Hillsdale College's Academy for Science and Freedom, at the Hillsdale College Kirby Center in Washington on March 17, 2022. Bao Qiu/The Epoch Times

President-elect Donald Trump chose Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University health policy professor, to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Nov. 26.

“I am absolutely thrilled and humbled by the nomination. It’s time to reform American science to make America healthy again,” Bhattacharya told The Epoch Times.