Trump Nominates Dr. Jay Bhattacharya To Lead NIH

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday night that he has nominated Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, to serve as Director of the National Institutes of Health.

“Dr. Bhattacharya will work in cooperation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to direct the Nation’s Medical Research, and to make important discoveries that will improve Health, and save lives,” Trump said in a statement.

Bhattacharya is a professor at the Stanford School of Medicine and focuses on health policy related to infectious diseases, COVID-19, and health economics.

Trump said Bhattacharya and RFK Jr. would “restore the NIH to a Gold Standard of Medical Research as they examine the underlying causes of, and solutions to, America’s biggest Health challenges, including our Crisis of Chronic Illness and Disease.”

“Together, Jay and RFK Jr. will restore the NIH to a Gold Standard of Medical Research as they examine the underlying causes of, and solutions to, America’s biggest Health challenges, including our Crisis of Chronic Illness and Disease. Together, they will work hard to Make America Healthy Again!”

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Bhattacharya — whose research has been published in economics, statistics, legal, medical, public health, and health policy journals — earned his MD and his PhD in economics from Stanford University.

“I am honored and humbled by President @realDonaldTrump’s nomination of me to be the next @NIH director,” Bhattacharya posted on X. “We will reform American scientific institutions so that they are worthy of trust again and will deploy the fruits of excellent science to make America healthy again!”

Elon Musk responded to Bhattacharya: “Congratulations, this is awesome.”

Congratulations, this is awesome 😎

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 27, 2024

“I’m so grateful to President Trump for this spectacular appointment,” RFK Jr. said in a statement. “Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is the ideal leader to restore NIH as the international template for gold-standard science and evidence-based medicine.”

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