NIH's Bhattacharya Will Also Run the CDC While Trump Administration Looks for a Permanent Director

The director of the National Institutes of Health is also taking over as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and ...

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya will take over leadership of CDC temporarily

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

US NIH director Bhattacharya to temporarily run CDC

By Ahmed Aboulenein, Julie Steenhuysen and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - U.S. National Institutes of Health ...

NIH director Jay Bhattacharya, a critic of COVID lockdowns, to temporarily run CDC

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

NIH Institute Told To Drop ‘Biodefense’ and 'Pandemic Preparedness' Language From Website

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 18, 2026 (HealthDay News) — As new infectious threats emerge worldwide, a key U.S. health agency is quietly ...
Scientific American

Key NIH research institute told to remove references to 'pandemic preparedness'

Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website, a Nature investigation ...

NIH Chief leads CDC; NYC resumes sweeps; DOE policy

National headlines for Feb. 19, 2026, cover major shifts in federal health and education policy. NIH Director Jay ...
Nature

Grant proposals drafted with AI help more likely to win NIH funding

But funding proposals to US agencies also tend to be more similar to previously funded projects if they are written or edited ...

NIH director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to take over as acting head of CDC

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

NIH director Bhattacharya tapped as acting CDC head

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health, will also lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention until President Donald Trump appoints a permanent director, The ...
Healio

White House picks NIH director Bhattacharya to run CDC for now

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, has been picked to also serve as acting director of the CDC, a White House official ...

NIH director temporarily steps in to run CDC

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 ...