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Jay Bhattacharya

18th director of the National Institutes of Health · India · On the map · Writers · Born 1968 · age 58

Jayanta Bhattacharya is an American health economist, trained as a physician, who has served as the 18th director of the National Institutes of Health since 2025. Bhattacharya had additionally served as the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since.

Jay Bhattacharya is read about 237 times a day, in 7 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 104 days, one point a day.

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  1. It’s very easy, for instance, to cure Alzheimer’s in mice. But those things don’t translate to humans.

    5 May 2025 · Jay Bhattacharya quoted in Indian-American Jay Bhattacharya ends brutal medical experiments on beagles, Elon Musk reacts 5 May 2025, Own words

  2. This censorship activity killed people… The reality is that the First Amendment, if it had been actually in place during the pandemic, would have saved lives.

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  3. The First Amendment still doesn’t apply in practice...

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Country
India
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1968 · age 58

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