President-elect Donald Trump late Tuesday said he plans to nominate Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford physician known for his opposition to COVID-19 lockdowns, to lead the National Institutes of Health, the nation’s leading public health agency.
Trump said Bhattacharya would work in concert with Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to “make America healthy again.”
“Together, Jay and RFK Jr. will restore the NIH to a Gold Standard of Medical Research as they examine the underlying causes of, and solutions to, America’s biggest Health challenges, including our Crisis of Chronic Illness and Disease,” Trump said in a statement.