The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn't had a Senate confirmed director since last summer, and that official ...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who directs the National Institute of Health, is taking over as acting director of the Centers for ...

Bhattacharya will continue in his current duties as NIH director until a permanent CDC director is nominated and confirmed, ...

Bhattacharya will be the third leader of the embattled CDC, the nation’s top public health agency, during President Donald Trump’s second term. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly fired ...

The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, will also take on the temporary role of acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an administration ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - U.S. National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, will take over as acting ...

Director of the National Institutes of Health Jay Bhattacharya will serve as interim director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) following the reported exit of Jim O’Neill, a ...

The National Institutes of Health director is reportedly taking on a second high-profile position, filling a leadership void ...

Debra Houry, M.D., a former chief medical officer at the CDC who departed in August, told the NYT that while the CDC and the ...

Bhattacharya was confirmed as NIH director in March 2025 and took office on April 1, 2025. His official biography notes his prior role as a Stanford professor and health economist and cites his co ...

Bhattacharya is taking the role after the previous acting director, Health and Human Services Department Deputy Secretary Jim ...

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya will also serve as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after a week of shake-ups in the Trump administration’s ...