Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford health researcher, is in line to lead the National Institutes of Health. Early in the pandemic he argued against lockdowns and focusing on people at highest risk.

Britt, who serves as chair of the Senate Appropriations homeland subcommittee, led a letter Friday with 13 of her GOP ...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya speaks after receiving the first annual Samizdat Prize, an award that will be given by Real Clear to journalists, scholars, and public figures who have fought censorship and ...

Jay Bhattacharya, Trump's pick to lead the NIH, is known for arguing against lockdowns and for "herd immunity" to control the COVID-19 virus.

Before Jay Bhattacharya's confirmation, the NIH slashed nearly 1,000 staff, froze grant activities, and put a policy in place to cap the amount of research funding universities could get for ...

When Stanford epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya challenged COVID lockdown orthodoxy in 2020, critics glued posters of his face across the campus — which he saw as an incitement to violence — and ...

FILE - Dr. Jay Bhattacharya speaks during a roundtable discussion with members of the House Freedom Caucus on the COVID-19 pandemic at The Heritage Foundation on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: I think we're in a very, very bad state. We're going to need to have a very honest look at the problems in this pandemic, almost like a 9/11 style commission.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya speaks during a roundtable discussion with members of the House Freedom Caucus on the COVID-19 pandemic at The Heritage Foundation on Nov. 10, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Tom ...

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 ...

Last week, Stanford University professor Jay Bhattacharya appeared before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions for his confirmation hearing as the next director of the ...