Jay Bhattacharya

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Jay Bhattacharya

Jayanta Bhattacharya (born 1968) 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. Bhattacharya earned his M.D. and Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. He does not practice medicine but specializes in health economics. Bhattacharya was a professor of medicine, economics, and health research policy at Stanford University until March 2025, when he left his position and became an emeritus professor so that he could start his position at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He also was an investigator at Stanford's Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging whose research focused on the economics of health care. In November 2024, President Donald Trump named Bhattacharya as his choice to lead the NIH, and he was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 25, 2025. Bhattacharya is the first Indian American to lead the NIH. He opposed the lockdowns and mask mandates imposed in 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. With Martin Kulldorff and Sunetra Gupta, he was a co-author in 2020 of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated lifting COVID-19 restrictions on lower-risk groups to develop herd immunity through widespread infection, while promoting the fringe notion that vulnerable people could be simultaneously protected from the virus.

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• Jay Bhattacharya - Wikipedia

  Jayanta Bhattacharya (born 1968) 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. [...] 1. ↑ Stein, Rob (March 5, 2025). "Trump's nominee to run NIH faces Senate scrutiny". NPR. Retrieved March 18, 2025. 2. 1 2 Tanne, Janice Hopkins (December 2, 2024). "Trump nominates Jay Bhattacharya to head US National Institutes of Health". BMJ q2695. doi "Doi (identifier)"):10.1136/bmj.q2695. ISSN "ISSN (identifier)") 1756-1833. Bhattacharya, 55, was born in India and is a naturalised American citizen. He received his medical degree and degrees in economics from Stanford University. He is now a professor of medicine, economics, and health research policy at Stanford and director of Stanford's Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Ageing. He does not practise medicine but focuses on the economics of healthcare. [...] Bhattacharya earned his M.D. and Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. He does not practice medicine but specializes in health economics. Bhattacharya was a professor of medicine, economics, and health research policy at Stanford University until March 2025, when he left his position and became an emeritus professor so that he could start his position at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He also was an investigator at Stanford's Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging whose research focused on the economics of health care. In November 2024, President Donald Trump named Bhattacharya as his choice to lead the NIH, and he was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 25, 2025.

• Jayanta Bhattacharya | Civic, Liberal, and Global Education

  Jay Bhattacharya is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and at the Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute. He holds courtesy appointments as Professor in Economics and in Health Research and Policy. He directs the Stanford Center on the Demography of Health and Aging. Dr. Bhattacharya’s research focuses on the economics of health care around the world with a particular emphasis on the health and well-being of vulnerable populations. Dr. Bhattacharya’s peer-reviewed research has been published in economics, statistics, legal, medical, public health, and health policy journals. He holds an MD and PhD in economics from Stanford University.

• Jayanta Bhattacharya | Stanford Medicine

  Jay Bhattacharya is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and at the Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute. He holds courtesy appointments as Professor in Economics and in Health Research and Policy. He directs the Stanford Center on the Demography of Health and Aging. Dr. Bhattacharya’s research focuses on the economics of health care around the world with a particular emphasis on the health and well-being of vulnerable populations. Dr. Bhattacharya’s peer-reviewed research has been published in economics, statistics, legal, medical, public health, and health policy journals. He holds an MD and PhD in economics from Stanford University.

• Jay BHATTACHARYA | Professor (Full) | MD, PhD

  Jay Bhattacharya is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. Jay does research in Health Economics and Health Policy.

• Jayanta Bhattacharya's Profile | Stanford Profiles

  Jay Bhattacharya is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and at the Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute. He holds courtesy appointments as Professor in Economics and in Health Research and Policy. He directs the Stanford Center on the Demography of Health and Aging. Dr. Bhattacharya’s research focuses on the economics of health care around the world with a particular emphasis on the health and well-being of vulnerable populations. Dr. Bhattacharya’s peer-reviewed research has been published in economics, statistics, legal, medical, public health, and health policy journals. He holds an MD and PhD in economics from Stanford University.

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• Gender

  male

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  Stanford University

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  Q5

• Occupation

  economist

• Citizenship

  United States

• Date Of Birth

  1/1/1968

• Place Of Birth

  Kolkata