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

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

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

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 ...

Director Jay Bhattacharya will assume the role of acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to a Trump administration official.

The National Institutes of Health announced its director, Jay Bhattacharya, would also temporarily head the CDC. The post NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya becomes third CDC head in under a year appeared ...

ATLANTA — Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health, will take over as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a White House official and ...

In honor of Purdue’s America250 celebration, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, and Christopher Yeomans, Justin S. Morrill Dean of Purdue’s College of Liberal Arts, ...

Jay Bhattacharya, MD, director of the National Institutes of Health, has been appointed acting director of the CDC, effective Feb. 18, an administration official confirmed to Becker’s. He will lead ...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, will serve as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), two ...

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

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn't had a Senate confirmed director since last summer, and that official was in the job for less than a month.