Trump's pick to head the National Institutes of Health has been famously critical of the U.S.'s COVID-19 response.

Dr Jay Bhattacharya, head of the NIH, is leading a billion-dollar effort to uncover the causes of autism. He discussed the initiative with podcaster Andrew Huberman.

In October 2020, two months before Covid-19 vaccines would become available in the US, Stanford health policy professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and two colleagues published an open letter calling for ...

Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, another Democrat, reacted sharply after Dr. Bhattacharya denied responsibility for the administration’s freezing research payments to Northwestern.