# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rick-bright
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:04:45.082Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rick-bright"
name: "Rick Bright"
slug: "rick-bright"
description: "Rick Arthur Bright is an American immunologist, vaccine researcher, and public health official. He was the director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) from 2016 to 2020. In May 2020, he filed a whistleblower complaint, alleging that the Trump administration ignored his early warnings about the COVID-19 pandemic and illegally retaliated against him by ousting him from his role and demoting him to a position at the National Institutes of Health. On October 6, 2020, Bright resigned from the government. On November 9 he was named a member of President-elect Joe Biden's coronavirus advisory board."
tagline: "US immunologist and US COVID-19 response whistleblower"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rick_A._Bright.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1966-06-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.91
  momentum:             2.234042553191489
  historical:           4.8153
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/rickabright"
    handle:    "rickabright"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Bright"
    title: "Rick Bright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Bright"
    title: "Rick Bright"
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  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%96%D0%BA_%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82"
    title: "Рік Брайт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%91%9E%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E5%B8%83%E8%90%8A%E7%89%B9"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rick_Bright"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91497504"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump