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.
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It’s very easy, for instance, to cure Alzheimer’s in mice. But those things don’t translate to humans.
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.
The First Amendment still doesn’t apply in practice...