Jay Bhattacharya
Jay Bhattacharya is a physician, health economist, and the 18th director of the National Institutes of Health, having taken office on April 1, 2025. He previously held a tenured professorship at Stanford University's School of Medicine and Department of Economics, where his research focused on population aging, chronic disease, and the health of vulnerable populations. He is best known for coauthororing the Great Barrington Declaration during the COVID-19 pandemic, which advocated for lifting lockdowns while better protecting older, high-risk populations.
“Matt Ridley — Co-author with Alina Chan; recently interviewed Jay Bhattacharya of NIH on COVID origins.”
Source→“The statistic that is most alarming for me, which was Jay Bhattacharya, the director of NIH, shared with me was that the median age of an intramural researcher at NIH is 71 years old.”
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