Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who has faced restrictions on social media platforms because of his views, was a critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates.

Click in for more news from The Hill{beacon} Health Care Health Care   The Big Story Trump picks Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead NIH The nomination completes the

President-elect Donald Trump's team has signed the agreement which allows members of the incoming administration to meet with their Biden-era counterparts ahead of the January transfer of power. And Trump continues to make staffing choices,

The Florida context From Florida Phoenix Dr. Bhattacharya was an important player in Gov. DeSantis' campaign against federal public health authorities' plan to contain spread of Covid-19 through social distancing and mask mandates,

Trump tapped Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a vocal critic of Covid-19 lockdowns and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, as the next NIH director.

Donald Trump plans to nominate Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford professor known for his criticism of Covid lockdowns, to lead the National Institutes of Health.

President-elect Donald Trump nominated health economist Jay Bhattacharya to serve as the next director of the National Institutes of Health, a federal agency that spends most of its nearly $48 billion budget on medical research through competitive grants Bhattacharya is a physician and professor at Stanford University School

Bhattacharya's nomination, alongside Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mehmet Oz, indicates potential shifts in vaccine policy under the Trump administration.

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen health economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates, to lead the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s leading medical research agency.