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

Physician-economist Jay Bhattacharya, currently leading the National Institutes of Health, has been appointed acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention amid leadership ...

The Donald Trump administration has appointed Jay Bhattacharya to lead the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention on an acting basis, The New York Timesreported.

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

National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya will step in 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 ...

Bhattacharya will continue in his current duties as NIH director until a permanent CDC director is nominated and confirmed, according to the White House official. He replaces Jim O'Neill, who served ...

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.

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 ...