Bhattacharya will be the third leader of the embattled CDC, the nation’s top public health agency, during President Donald ...

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

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

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya will step in as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which rebuked CDC’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, will oversee the nation’s leading public health agency.

Jay Bhattacharya is currently the head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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 was named acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a Trump ​administration official said Wednesday.